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That's what I meant elsewhere today about the new green at higher elevations. It's lovely. The lack of any remaining snow, notsomuch; we should still have some clearly visible well into June. We are supposed to get rain starting late Monday, though, so that's something, at least.
Two things: First is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least as it stands now. That means that she will need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.
Second, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident yesterday. A woman found an badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We have ten on there at ~$56 each, and another 35 remaining at $20 each. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department. If they refuse them, we'll give them to Stray hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]? Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.
And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: Next week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips over the last two days, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for it.
In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. Still going to try to get the new piece up and published on the site tonight. He has a new cuff that's almost complete, too; if it's done yet today, I'll try to get it up tonight as well. No promises, between everythig else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain [today's chemo day, so maybe I'll feel better tomorrow . . . or maybe not]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:
- Sales here;
- Testimonials here;
- Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here);
- 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 tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links.
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