A short month, but a hard one.

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The melt is proceeding apace, but the snow is lasting a lot longer than I expected in these temps. Which tells me that it must've been deeper out there than I knew [I never actually went out and measured it; just guessed by way of what the depth was up closer to the house]. 

Which is good. Slower melt means the ground can absorb more. It also means less mud, and with the dogs running around out there, that's always a good thing.

Speaking of dogs, it's the eleventh anniversary of losing our Big Guy, Major.  It was just a bit after noon on a day that was colder and somewhat grayer than this one; snow on the ground then, too. He's resting between his sibs under the giant blue spruce [the one that's still alive]. Hunter's and Cree's anniversaries are coming up in a couple fo weeks, too; it's a short month, but a hard one.

Made all the harder by the absolute deviltry going on in D.C. This is demonic behavior, pure evil. And for those who are paid out of a tax dollar to do the right thing, and are too chickenshit or too compromised [or both] to bother? Not another vote, not another cent. People in our communities are dying while they play good Germans.

Meanwhile, we have to worry about those communities, about our relatives [both of whom are disproportionately affected by this illegal "funding suspension"], . . . and about us. Last year was indescribably bad on pretty much every single front, especially sales. This year, already a month into it, and it's not appreciably better. I have GOT to make some sales, since we've had only two so far in this new year, and we're already in the second month. 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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