Out of order again.

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Yes, we got snow! Real snow. But combined with other things, it's made for a very busy and very late day for us, so everything's going to appear out of order again tonight. I'll get the easy[ish] things posted first, and the NDN Silver post [and its various threads] will be last.

We had our follow-up appointments today, which is to say, our initial appointments, because today was our first visit with the new practitioner since our doctor took over the administrative side of the practice for the year [and thus is not seeing patients]. She's our doctor's P.A., and she's wonderful, and everything went well and our appointment cycles are now back on schedule. Wings's numbers were also great, so that's always a good thing.

But occurring as it did in the middle of a day with this kind of weather, it's set my own work way back. They had predicted eight inches for our area, but we had that before dawn and then some . . . and it was still snowing. In fact, it was still snowing at 1:00 this afternoon; I don't think it actually quit out here where we are [above a couple of snow lines between us and town] until just before we got home, which I think was around 2:30. I know one area I measured this evening [after plenty of melting had already occurred] was 14", so I think we must have gotten around 16-18" total? Best snow in years.

Too bad it'll all be gone by the weekend. Yup. Supposed to hit 44 tomorrow, 56 by Monday, and I expect that almost all of this will be gone by sometime Saturday. Which means that everything will be MUD.

But it's better than these drought-driven dust storms we've been getting.

It's also a lot of work. You can see him up there plowing the gate area [which was buried under two feet of the stuff when we got home, courtesy of the snowplows on the highway]. both this morning and this evening required me to do some of the heavy labor that my body doesn't handle well anymore [sweeping snow, hauling firewood in this stuff, etc., etc.] and I am absolutely beat. Several subluxes to my hands and wrists later, it'll be a miracle if I get through all of the writing work I still have to do tonight.

But it has to be done, because I have GOT to make some 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. We're going to have to replace the well pressure pump, without question. Taxes are coming. My laptop apparently will have to wait yet another year [assuming I can keep this alive that long, which I can't assume for a moment, actually]. 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. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy. 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 much every day. Lately, that day is seeming like it's maybe not so far off now, and that scares the hell out of me.

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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