Not at all a given.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

More snow at one time than those peaks have seen in over a year.

Pushing mid-May.

Whatever, we'll take it. There's a part of me that's secretly glad the elements deprived that hedge-fund billionaire colonizer of real snow. They're trying to teach him something, but of course, his kind refuses to learn.

It's been a spectacularly bad week, and it's not over yet. The problem is, I don't know whether it's ever going to improve on the health front now. This may as good as it gets. If so, I've got a long way to go to make peace with that, because right now, I can't even wrap my head around it. I suppose I'll know more after the end of the month, but that assumes the labs show anything [I'm famous for being sero-negative while the damage continues apace, so who knows]. That also assumes I can afford the labs in the first damn place. That's not at all a given.

For now, I'd just really like to get Jen's Spotfund for her truck's rebuilt transmission and new tires another $340 tonight. Her crowdfunding effort is past the halfway mark now; that $450 tonight will put her at an even $4,000, and surely we can do that? That's ten people, $34 each [or 34 people, $10 each]. 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, who 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.

As to all the rest, I'm still playing catch-up on everything else, which is complicated by my worsening symptoms now. 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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