Fires.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Better a fire in the sky than the four [or more] whose smoke plumes we saw rising from the ground today.

We had to go down to Santa Fe, and there are so many unreported, uncounted fires burning between here and there. The Río Grandé is about two inches deep,  sludgy mess of silt and toxic blue-green algae. There were no birds on it anywhere; they know the water, what little is left, is poison now.

We were visiting our dearest friend, and it was a wonderful visit, but the travel is so hard on both of us now. I'll be useless for the rest of the week, probably into next week, too. And I don't have time for that. I've got to bring in a lot more sales [$1,700 to replace our tires yesterday, just so we could make the trip safely], and I can't even get enough time to chase them because of everything else. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

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