Hello my most wonderful human! I come to you with a message of great import! I’ve been productive and got our Patreon set up!
Patreon is a website where you can subscribe on a monthly fee of your choice to be able to support your favorite artists!
Why is this important to me? Is it not just another platform to beg off of people? Don’t I get enough in cash donations? Are these all just personal self doubts?
As many of you know, we purely live off of donations and I haven’t had stable or promised income in years. I’ve been making it work.
The fact that we can survive on the kindness of strangers is immensely heartwarming!
The kids growth means our needs and education involvement are also growing. Our food stamps will be expiring within the next year.
I want to be able to think I can afford staying in the woods longer instead of sitting in parking lot after parking lot. I want to feel secure enough to pay for a campsite for a couple nights, or even join the $75 service of boondockerswelcome.com. If it goes well, I would like to expand our travels internationally. I want to focus on my art for the pleasure of it and maybe open an etsy for the nice things. To do the art I want to rebuild the bus. (*Imma circle to this later) I want to continue to make people smile and want to find more ways to do it. I want to not have to start a gofundme when we have a hiccup. I want to clear up my legal nonsense.
I’m trying to use the platform as a motivation to create more. Playing music seems to have brought me into the zen of productivity maybe?
On the want list is also not giving this domain up.
So what have we been doing? Trying to buy and sell this trailer we’re towing. It really looked like it was gonna work out but I guess it wasn’t the right fit after all. The more in depth story is on the Patreon. Haha.
So through those days we’ve had a couple lovely nature and park days but still haven’t found a camping spot. I promise (myself and the kids) that it’s coming up. I got all the animals flea and more importantly tick repellent in preparation.
I’ve also received this wonderful and kind offer from this amazing family in Georgia to help me overhaul Matilda. We video chatted and it looks absolutely amazing and enticing and I’m really trying to talk myself into going there, but the heat and summer is encroaching. I have some dental stuff to do in Montana and promises to go to the West coast…. I wanna talk to them again, but I keep forgetting to do the calling thing. Currently excuses are writing on low battery in a rush to take the kids into the grocery store at the end of the tablet timers. So it’s a race against technology two fold. May I remember tomorrow morning!
On that note I feel like I need to cancel my therapy appointment in lieu of camping this week. Much more important right now. I’m sure she will understand.
I just lost the technology race on the first front.
I’m determined not to let this other one win.
What do I usually write about? How awesome my kids are? Cause they are and deserve all the praise. Praise for being the best at pushing all my buttons. But in truth, they’re doing so well. Atreyu’s reading often and improving. Galixy is sounding out and spelling three letter words easily. She has the knack for it. I’m about to lse all the races.
Ok I hope yall are doing amazing and grateful e.m.
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