No snow.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Look at that. February 8th, and there's no snow. That's what the mountains should look like in early June.

It's terrifying.

It's been a frustrating day. First day I've felt even marginally functional in weeks, months, even, and I've had to overdo it on so many fronts that tomorrow's going to be a bitch and a half. It didn't help that the smoke detector assembly started beeping at top volume at 5 AM, and it took me at least a half-dozen trips up the ladder to figure out that it was not in fact the detector itself, nor was it the connected night light in our bedroom, but rather, the light assembly itself, which is apparently now toast. And they don't make it anymore, natch, so there are now wires poking out of the ceiling while I figure out whether we can do the necessary work ourselves for the way they've changed these suckers, or we have to pay an electrician to do it. If it's the latter, it ain't getting done for a good long while.

Because we don't have anything like the sales needed to do that. Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still two weeks in the hole now. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is, and I can't afford what's been happening to me. Because regardless of side effects, I've got to do something to bring in sales. We've made two this weekend, which at this point are an indescribably blessing, but we're so far in the hole from this ear so far plus the last two years of utter crap that it's only the barest floor. We need to bring in a lot more, because it's grim. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to begin this year on a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

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