Too many firsts, too soon.

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No snow. In early April? That little peak should be covered with it entirely, and it should be measured in [many] feet.

We do have the first honeysuckle blossoms, and first hummingbird today, though. Too many firsts, too soon. I suspect that we will have no lilacs again this year. They budded a week or two ago, and they're looking distinctly unhealthy now. Might have something to do with that whole "28 degrees overnight" thing every night, but what do I know?

Got the biggest thing in the tax bullshit done today. The rest will be tonight, and we'll turn them over tomorrow. And then I won't be quite done with them yet, but mostly, and maybe I'll be able to breathe again. Of course, there's still the stupid check to write. And there are no words for the rage I feel having our hard-earned dollars go to this monstrous government.

Still no access to FB, because no time to deal with it, which means still no access to my own group. Still no sales. Still the week from hell. And I still have to get through it, and preferably do so without landing myself in the hospital or worse. Because I'm out of time to get all of this done, my health is in jeopardy, and we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even, which we are not remotely doing now. We were already eight weeks behind where we need to be on sales even before the side door decided to go to hell, and we will not get through this year if that doesn't change soon. We need sales; we don't make it through spring if this drought doesn't break soon. 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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