No snow. It's fifty-three degrees. In January, at 8K feet.

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Look at that. No snow. It's fifty-three degrees. In January, at 8K feet.

Haze from a fire somewhere, though.

No snowpack. That means no thaw. That means no water flowing into the watersheds in spring; not that "spring" per se matters, since these are late April/early May temps already.

They say we'll get a little snow Wednesday night into. Thursday morning, but they say that a lot, and the result is nothing, so folks will understand if I'm not convinced. We need the weather to break in our favor, which is to say, in the land's favor, because trees are dying around us daily, the soil is aridifying constantly, and it's literally killing this place.

I also need this week to be very much better than the last one [last several ones] on multiple fronts. Part of it is my complex of illnesses/conditions; my joints are getting very much worse, and it's been a rapid acceleration, so I also have to be concerned about organ damage now. That feeds into concern about being able to get things done, because i'm way behind on literally everything . . . and also about whether I'll simply be able to do things at all, and for how long yet.

The much greater concern, though, is about lack of sales, since we've had only one so far in this new year. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too, including the ones I posted yesterday: a pair of dancing heart earrings at a lower price point than most of his work; an extraordinary new cuff set with an incredible giant specimen of violet-blue sodalite; and an equally spectacular old-style necklace, big and bold and created in a traditional four-directions design. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy. We're already down three sales on the year so far, and that trend CANNOT continue again. I won't survive another awful year like last year. Every day I wake up to pain that was worse than the day before. I also wonder what will happen to us if it gets so bad that I can't even do this every day.

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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