Outside my office window just a little while ago. You can't tell it from that angle and spot, but in the flat open areas, we're up over a foot already. We might hit that 20"+ prediction yet; there certainly isn't any lessening of what's coming out of the sky right now. Saw a report of three accidents down the Gorge already, and the snowplows haven't been out at all here yet. Our neighbor left for work . . . and came right back. One of the other changes our supposed Dem administration has made here (I mean, aside from trying to kill us all from COVID-19)? Was to take away the local Highway Department office and consolidate it (and several other rural ones) down in Santa Fe, and we're already seeing the effects, which is to say, we're being abandoned, despite the amount of taxes we send down there every year.
It's going to get very cold tonight. It's no longer a question of winter coming; winter is HERE, and in a very big and dangerous way. It's a good thing, after months with no precipitation of any kind and the land dying literally, visibly, around us. We're warm and housed, but this on top of the pandemic? Is going to make things very much worse in the short term, and probably the longer term of what remains of fall and all of winter into spring, too.
I have to get us through the rest of the year safely. My next big thing is finding a way to cover Wings's aids, because this is one of those things that is urgent now. One sale of 3 grand would do it; whatever, I have to raise it, and so I'm going to be back to flogging sales daily, hard. I also have to cover Miika's hoof work, the hay, and more immediately, the plumbing.
My laptop is still slowly dying, as is my camera, both of which are integral parts of our work. I hope they make it through year's end, but they may not. The laptop is down to one working port, and if I lose that, I'm screwed. We cannot live without either one, because they are both necessary for our work at the most very basic level. And of course, I still need to figure out how to cover the ~$15K for drilling the well, so that maybe in future years, we won't be over this particular barrel. I have no idea how I'm going to do all this, but I do know that we need to make steady sales to survive. If you're in the market to buy, please consider us, because two episodes of nearly dying were more than enough, but this year is already damn near killing me, and I have to get us through into next year safely somehow, which means I have got to make sales somehow. It's all on me, and I can't do this alone. So please share the links, and if/when you're in the market for gorgeous, authentic, Spirit-infused Indigenous wearable art, Wings will have something perfect for you. The links are here:
It's still my birthday month, and the best gift I could have would be to make some steady sales, now, and in the days and weeks to come. Thanks.
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