Ominous.

Photo copyright Aji, 2020; all rights reserved.

Even the red willows are dying. In all these years, even in the record drought of 2018, I've never seen them like this. It feel ominous.

And as fast as this terrible year is flying, there's still a lot of it (and a lot of terrible) left. I have no faith in November, and none of that matters to the hundreds of thousands of folks who by then will have died unnecessarily. It also won't fix anything then, and I'm not convinced there will be any long-term will, because there never is.

Meanwhile, people need to survive. The land needs to survive. I'm not sure how the garden will make it. i'm not sure how we do, for that matter. As I've said, my monthly budget is blown; when elders need help (and they need it badly now), you give it, and that's what we've done twice this week already.  On top of that. Wings picked up the mower for the fifty-billionth time last week, and that's another ~$300 or so down the tubes. One thing the high heat and drought managed for us, at least, was keeping the mosquitoes at bay for a while, but it's cooled off enough that they're back, and the grass has to get cut, no matter how much brown there is in it. We can't afford to risk West Nile here. We're already flooded with tourists spiking our COVID-19 numbers locally, and in the adjacent county just west of us are the state's first two plague cases of the year, one of them already fatal (and only 20 years old, too). I need to bring in another grand in sales to cover all of this unexpected outlay; I'm not quite half-way there, so one more large or two medium-sized sales would do it.

Speaking of which, so much work, and still I have to push to make sales no matter what else is going on. Wings has got some gorgeous new work already posted. New piece just the other morning, here. Two brand new and purely phenomenal works from the other day, here. Lots of other new works, too, cuffs and earrings and one new necklace, plus more in the works and coming soon. So please continue to share the links, because we do still need to make regular, consistent sales to get through what's left of this terrible year. I've also added some new items to the wishlist, because, well, puppies, and the plumbing overhaul we can't afford to do because of how badly they screwed us, so those things are near-ish to the top; you'll have to scroll two or three times to see them all. The priorities are the first and foremost, the KT tape, the fly spray, and especially the essential oil kit (not for aromatherapy; my breathing is really labored now from the pollen and the mildew, and we need them badly), as well as the simmer sauces, which I use in cooking ALL the time. The links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

[Obviously, the wishlist is back in force. There are things I absolutely cannot get except through Amazon, and I can't add that stress onto all the others now.] Please share everything. Thanks.

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