Grateful anyway.

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No, your eyes do not deceive you:  That is snow! On the peaks only; down here, it's rain, but what a rain it's been — most of last night, a good share of the overnight hours, and most of today. Heavy, steady, but not the kind of hard rain that causes flash-flooding; instead, the ground's been able to absorb it.

We've been very lucky; other places, they've had cloudbursts, hail, ice. We're supposed to get more tonight, with snow overnight and tomorrow morning, and then more rain the rest of the day, apparently.

These are not the patterns we should be having now, but we're grateful anyway.

Speaking of which: I think I mentioned here the other day that I was helping a friend organize a crowdfunding effort [if I didn't, then that was an oversight, because I meant to]. It's Jen, who runs Taos Hound Underground, a local (c)(3) dog rescue org, and she does absolutely amazing work. Y'all know how we are about dogs.

Anyway, Jen's truck is suddenly in URGENT need of two major things: a transmission rebuild, and four new tires. She's gone through the laborious process of getting multiple estimates and figuring out who's trustworthy and what she can reasonably expect. Which, of course, is mid-high four figures. Anyway, we got together today and got this all done, which means that you can donate to help defray the $6,300 cost and get her back to doing what she does so incredibly well, which is help dogs in need. Jen is the one who organized the rescue of Emmy, the deaf Pyrenees that was caught in traffic a couple of weeks ago, and also Fetty, the poor pibble boy who'd been shot in the head [literally!] and abandoned, ho she helped get to safety last week. It's his photo in the Spotfund image, and he's doing amazingly well now. You can donate here.

For the rest of the week, I'll be playing catch-up on other things. For now, I've gotten the monthly bills off my desk [except one, I think, which comes later], but we still have to bring in steady, regular sales al month long [and way beyond]. It used to be one a week would even out over the course of the year, and typically keep us going, but after last year and this, and all the catastrophic expense, that's no longer true; I need to bring in a few a week, at least for a good while yet. I still have to be able to pay the rest of this year's taxes and start prepaying next year's; I can't go through this again for another year in a row. I also have to cover the well pump replacement, the tires and another repair on the truck, and there are family things coming up that we'll have to help with one way or another. And Spirit only knows what's waiting for me health-wise, but I have to think in those terms, too, no matter how much I want to avoid it. 

So. We still need shares, and we most definitely still 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 the filters for the air purifiers, which are doing double-duty right now with our record-high pollen levels this spring. I've added bandages for Wings for his knee wraps [and they get used on Miika, too] as well as a disinfecting unit to use on food items, since we no longer have safety controls or inspections on food, and a pair of power scissors for breaking down the recycling, since my hands are useless now); 
• 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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