It's looking like a winter without, well, winter.

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The last day of the December, last day. of the calendar year, and the snow is essentially gone. Oh, there are still some patchy areas, up near the peaks and ridgelines. But everything else? Gone.

The piñon jays are still here, obviously [one of whom is photobombing the shot on the upper right]. They're suddenly saying showers tomorrow morning, but I'll be very surprised, unless things change drastically over the next few hours. They're also saying snow showers on Friday, but again, we'll see. 

It's looking like a winter without, well, winter.

It's been, frankly, a terrible year. Second in a row, and all I can do is pray that 2026 is better, because I can't do a third that's this bad. My health isn't good enough anymore. I'm still so far behind from everything on this year, and there's still all the sales stress. We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment cleared, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here in under four days {!] [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to get his latest up yet tonight. Yeah, I know, I shouldn't being pushing myself, either, given the precarious state of my health now, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're very literally hours away from being out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the thermos [for me, because I always have water with me, no matter what, and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to end this year on at least a slightly better note.

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