Not enough of it.

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Clear and cold, literally not a cloud in the sky today. Spoon Mountain is still capped with snow, but if you're here on the ground, you can see where the tundra is beginning to show through on the southerly-facing ridge/slope. The snow line is higher across the board than yesterday, too; despite last night's genuine cold, there's not enough of it to withstand the sun.

Which is depressing, to say the least. Tonight is supposed to be colder than last night, but tomorrow is supposed to get up into the fifties again, and that's deadly. Our highs now should be no more than 20; by New Year's, we should have three feet of snow on the ground, lows of -20 [actual temp], and highs not much, if any at all, above zero.

It seems that those days are gone entirely, at least for our lifetimes. In under a decade.

So all we can do is be grateful for what we do get, and do our part to turn this little space, at least, into something that can survive and be renewed for generations to come. Certainly nobody in authority or control has  any interest in it. Then again, no one in authority or control has any interest in actually helping peple, preserving rights, or stopping genocides, either.

Which is why it's all up to us, all of us, individually and collectively. Not the faux-recycling nonsense; no, the ACTUAL work of keeping folks alive and safe and denying these monsters any success.

And we need it as much as anyone after this year, which has really done us some damage, and not just financially. A few more days of "holiday" season, and then it's back to the regular grind, but we're going to try to take it relatively easy until then [which means all our regular daily work, but not killing ourselves over all the other stuff]. The work, though? The work never ends. I've spent much of the day today on trying to keep folks gong, one way or another, so my own work is happening at night yet again, and it's likely to be a long night as a result.

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 two latest up. 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 almost 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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