Green in strange places.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

More spring weirdness — green in strange places. That's two aspen clones that found their way beneath the shelter for the propane tank, then came up through the earth between the latillas and the tank.

Glad something's thriving, because I'm certainly not. Two different types of bad news today, so there's been that. Also, FB finally decided last night that yes, I am actually me, and let me back in . . . and wow, is the bad behavior coming out among certain corners of the group.

Nah, I don't play. Pull that ish, you're gone and not coming back. But i have now spent the whole day, and then some, on that last round of crap, and I'm ready to start breaking things. It doesn't help that both knees are subluxed in such a way that I can't extend either one completely, so walking is both extremely painful and has me looking like Quasimodo. I'm so tired.

Meanwhile, all the work still has to get done: the housework, the paperwork, the sales work, everything. The one thing that came out of the tax nonsense is that I was not losing my mind; last year, we made barely more than 50% of the previous year's sales, which tells you how bad Trump is for business [and for everything else except inflicting harm]. The problem is that everything still has to get paid, and we paid in cash, in full, and now we've got recover a lot of that if we're going to make it through the year. And we've got to maintain it, because we've also got big costs [the side exterior door, for one; the flue cleanings for another; and a set of tires for the truck for a third] immediately ahead. Those three new cuffs are up; in the next couple of days, I'll have his new bolo posted, and possibly a couple of new pairs of earrings, too. But I have got to get us caught up on this awful year in terms of sales. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of items off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• 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 get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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