A heightened forecast.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

This morning was all clouds and fog, although the rain had mostly stopped before dawn. It's bright and sunny now, with plenty of blue sky showing through . . . and a heightened forecast for rain for tonight.

Oh, and a flash-flood warning (not watch, active warning) for the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Wildfire Complex burn scars just over the ridgeline. This is the other deadly danger of wildfire around here: flood.

Now that the rain has stopped here, though, the pollen is back floating visibly through the air like silky snowflakes, so I fully expect another allergy attack before the rain starts back up again. The birds are back out: two hummingbirds in a turf war outside the window, the red-tails out and actively hunting, and as of last night, a new male downy woodpecker scooping up seeds and stashing them as fast as he can. Everyone seems acutely conscious now of just how little time there is anymore to stock up for the lean seasons.

Speaking of which, that's a heightened forecast if ever there were one, this unavoidable truth that every window of well-being and survival shrinks by the day. I'm not talking about money; I'm talking about the health of the earth, of the land and water and simple time, and we are feeling the pressure every bit as much as the wild birds who are finding their own seasonal timelines collapsed.

And now we've got the catalytic converter replacement on the truck next week, so I really, really need to get the new pieces up and promoted. I need to be chasing sales on every front, but I have so little time to do anything lately. As always, expect everything to be late; hips, knees, ankles, feet are all very bad right now, and both my hands have decided that they're going to be uncooperative (and extremely painful) too. In the meantime, all the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priority, because I've been forced to eliminate another staple from my diet just to function rather minimally, and someone mentioned that perhaps our old non-stick pans, which are in fact long since well beyond their useful date, are making the matter worse, so there's a non-PFAS replacement set at the top that would help with cooking/cleanup/my hands/my illness; there's also a replacement for Wings's computer on it and a charging station; and yes, the Zero-Odor sprays are still useful right now, although these days it's dusty dogs, not wet ones); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, so please share all of the links. 

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