Just wait and see.

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It's been a day.

More monsoonal-pattern squalls on all sides this afternoon, but not a single drop of rain here. At least the green is spreading at higher elevations now. Of course, the snow is pretty much gone already. 

Labs this morning; I'll probably have to wait until next week to find out what they show, if anything. Even if there is something there, there's no guarantee that it'll show in the bloodwork, but it's the first step. The basic plan just wait and see.

We also picked up Wings's last scrip; animal feed; and NINE BOXES OF SCANNERS at the post office. We need only 8 more!  Details below:

First things first:  We only need 6 more of the $56 pet-chip scanners and only 5 2 more of the $20 ones to close this little project out! All the details are below. I'm even madder than I was yesterday, but that's not my story to tell. But we can force them to do their jobs, or answer to the public why they refuse, by taking away their excuse.  Getting those last 11 8 scanners off the wishlist will do that. The story is below, along with another thing that needs attention still. And I do need to make some sales this week, too.

That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Yes, that's exactly what they did, and now the dog has a head wound. Some kind person managed to corral it, and Jen has gone out there to try to take care of it, figure out what's needed, scan it to try to ID its people, find a suitable placement if there's no chip. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a 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 still need 7 of those at the ~$56 price, and another 9 of those at the $20 price. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus 3 and 16 respectively of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department/shelter/rescues/ volunteers.  If they refuse them, we'll give all of 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.

Second 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 locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely 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.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: This week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for all of it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The new necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. Tomorrow will be one, possibly two more necklaces in similar style, plus a very different pair of earrings. 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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