The air is clear, hot air balloons will be drifting overhead shortly, the birds are singing, and
Construction is underway!
If you haven’t seen it already, go check out Avilyn’s diary about it, but the gist is that Aji, a long time Kossack from the days of yore, who has had technical problems in logging in to DK in recent years, and her main man Wings and their furry fourlegs need something better than the rusted out and downright dangerous RV they’ve lived in for the last half decade or so since their bank screwed them and literally took the house they’d lived in before. So they’re crowdsourcing a compact permanent home from which they can continue creating fantastic jewelry, photography, writing and more, in between taking care of a menagerie of fourlegs with chronic health issues. (Not to mention dealing with their OWN chronic health issues.)
Here’s a direct link to the fundraising page for the current stage of building, and by reading through Aji’s blog over the last few days, you can see all sorts of pics on what’s been done so far, and find out why they need to finish out this phase of fundraising and get onto the the next ASAP — when the labor is available, work has to get done pronto, or else who knows when it will. And it’s available now, so more money is needed right now.
If you’ve already donated, or spread the word through your own social networks, thank you from the bottom of my heart. (And I include any of you folks that I didn’t particularly get along with on here, but are good people at heart ;) If not, spare some cash if you can, and spread the word. Tweet it, facebook it, instagram it, whatever. Life doesn’t treat any of us as easily as we’d like, and these two have faced more adversity than anyone deserves. It’s time to give them a sense of security, a place of safety, built on the love of friends and strangers.
Thank you.