Worse is that they're succeeding.

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Red skies; no snow. 

It hit seventy today, and it was both lovely and also hellishly uncomfortable. It should never be seventy degrees here in February. Or in March.

The peaks are mostly bare of snow again, just gray tundra. And there's not really any real chance of anything more in the forecast for the next fifteen days. Meanwhile, all the stupid water-sucking overdevelopment and sky resort expansion and drought-deepening air traffic continue to increase apace. Bad enough that they're determined to kill everything. Worse is that they're succeeding, being enabled by those whose job it is to halt this crap.

Just like those genocidal monsters in D.C. We are living in a time of pure, genuine evil, and the response is not at all encouraging. Yes, some members of Congress finally pulled their heads out of their asses today and showed some fire in public, but the leadership is still its typical milquetoast Vichy bullshit. And every one of that crew needs to be ousted forthwith, and permanently. They're paid out of our tax dollars to do the right thing, and are too chickenshit or too compromised [or both] to bother, so we can't be bothered either. They made what should have been one of the hardest decisions of my life into one of the easiest ones with their cowardice and venality, and I am glad that we made the decisions that we did. Going forward? For those, 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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