Faint traces of green.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

That was yesterday, along the same ridgeline where, on the other side of it, a wildfire has raged for more than two months now. Same ridgeline that, on this side, burned in the wildfire of 2003.

You can see faint traces of green now, a full generation later.

The problem is that the green down here is also rapidly getting reduced to traces, ever fainter, by this drought. In theory, a small chance of rain around Thursday or so, but we'll believe it when we see it. Also in theory, monsoonal patterns to arrive next week, but we know better than depend on that, too.

But we have to try to plant, and I need to get stuff in the ground mostly this weekend. We also  have to keep at everything else, but it's getting more difficult (and more costly) by the day. My Patreon is also already down $50 this month and I've had a kind heads-up that it will be going down a few hundred more, permanently, beginning next month. So I need to bring in enough to that, plus the hay, and the taxes, and my medical costs, and and and and. Some sales this week and next would go a long way on all of that; as I said yesterday, hope is a stubborn thing. Also, I posted a new cuff a few nights ago, another in his informal series of solid sterling silver vintage-style bracelets; you can see it here.

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder, the Thermacell lanterns [the flies are already out, so the mosquitoes won't be far behind], and the liquid soaps, which we can't get locally but prevent our hands from cracking and bleeding given that we're forced to wash them fifty times a day);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before the latter half of summer, and the tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's perhaps even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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