Talk about your Catch-22s.

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See what the minutest amount of water runoff does in a drought like this? That's from yesterday; Wings was rinsing something off quickly with the hose, and that's the effect it had on the land, too dry to absorb it properly. Click on it; you'll see the hard, deep grooves it carved in the dirt.

Now transplant that idea to the burn scars traced all over this land, and the flooding rains of the monsoon season, and you'll see why we're so specific about the kind of rain we want and need. Can't be a thunder-and-lightning-filled shower, which will evaporate while the land catches fire from the strikes; can't be a cloudburst, which will flood everything like this on a macro scale.

Talk about your Catch-22s.

Speaking of which, we got several of them out of the way today for the moment, at least. Quarterly taxes paid; another installment on '21; Wings's injections; my ketamine treatment. Everything else will still be there tomorrow, and next month, and next quarter, and next year, but for the moment? I'm just going to enjoy the fact that my brain is letting me breathe.

Doesn't mean we don't still need sales, though, so 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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