This is not normal.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

First aspen leaves today. They're early, like everything else this spring. In the photo, that's a clone that popped up between the deck post [you can just see the edge of it at left] and the deck itself. It's a tight fit, but this is still little and it fits just fine. There are also new leaves opening on the aspen at the north corner of the house — only on one branch, the one that overhangs the balcony up there. Maybe it's just enough warmer? I hope we're getting more than that one branch this year.

Windy and cold today. I feel like I've gotten nothing done. I actually have gotten some things accomplished, but I'm just so far behind that it doesn't feel like I'm making any headway. It's made all the harder by the fact that I can't get a break from the pain, including the new stuff, and the constant discomfort is an equally constant reminder that, even for me, this is not normal.

Which could be said of the whole world right now, I realize, but that doesn't help.

And with my illness progression [and that progression is clearly getting much worse], it's getting harder and harder to keep pace with everything I need to do every day, never mind this extra burden, but there isn't a choice. This is two years in a row where everything has gone to hell immediately and refused to let us get our heads above water, and I don't know how much more I can take.

So. We need shares, and we most definitely need sales. As in now, today, every day for a while, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and those adjustable Black KN95 masks are badly needed, because I gave away all the rest of ours to relatives; it would good to have several boxes, so I can keep handing them out, too); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing because taxes to this Nazi administration have already taken every last cent and we still owe them more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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