That's something.

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The garden is rockin'. So are the weeds, too, natch. I have no idea how I'm going to do any weeding now; can't kneel, can't bend, hands are wrecked. But at least the corn and beans and squash and everything else are thriving. In what's been, in a lot of ways, an otherwise very bad month, that's something.

That's not due just to what little precipitation we got last week. Wings has been watering it every few days in the evening, and each time he does, everything's visibly higher in the morning. They're changed the forecast for next week now to possible thunderstorms more days than not, but given that this place is a tinderbox now, we know better than to depend on that.

I don't know why my pain levels should have ratcheted up so badly this week, but it's impairing my ability to get anything done. This is not my ordinary level of constant, relentless pain; this is something else altogether. I'm not sick, so there's nothing like that aggravating it. But it's full-body pain, no respite anywhere, and nothing works on it. It's accompanied by new subluxes [dislocations], including ribs and chest and hips, and also new muscle contractions that are refusing to stretch out. I mean, obviously, it's disease progression, but why now, why so intensely, and why are there SO MANY new variables working against each other? I'm supposed to get steroid injections next week, but I don't know if they'll want to do it under these circumstances, and if not, I'm really screwed. The chemo's not helping, but I know if I went off it would get demonstrably worse right away, and every time I try to raise my dose, it leaves me feeling too lousy to function anyway.

I think I'm screwed regardless.

And this Nazi regime still demands our fucking taxes.

We have a big payment due in under a week. I need to make a middling four figures' worth of sales to cover all of it. The likelihood of that? Yeah. But I have to try. I would dearly love to cover them all at once and not have to worry about it for a while, since we know there are there are other huge expenses lying in wait for us. Which means, of course, that 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 (new priorities, needed for Miika, and after refiling her meds we just can't swing it:  3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, 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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