New and gorgeous fiber art. Winter art that's not so much fun. No concentrator, but CPAP in the works. Sales/shares/registries needed.

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More iPad photos, sadly, but up there? That's a work of artistic genius from a very dear friend. Yes! It's here; it arrived today. It's now on the bed, on top of the Pendleton blanket. It's amazing. Note embroidery at bottom; there're are also other small embroidered images scattered throughout the star.

Amazing in a whole other way is the weather:

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That's the pond. More of a lake now, actually. Also frozen. Like the air; the wind kept changing directions all day, but it just howled nonstop. It's brutal. Under the circumstances, I was already wiped from yesterday, but today's just been ridiculous in that regard. Too tired even to think, so the rest is cut and paste. Well, except for one brief note on the medical front: The CPAP unit my doc wanted me to get is on order, and they've already faxed the scrip confirmation to her office. Assuming everything goes smoothly, I might have it next week. It's looking like I'll need to pay for another week for the rental concentrator, though, because the other one never arrived. ::Sigh:: Amazon apparently sent it to the wrong address, despite us having only ONE physical address on file with them, and so we have on clue where it is or when we'll actually see it.

Lots of expenses coming down the pike (first one already here in yesterday's mail), and we need to make some sales. Given the circumstances, I'm leaving up the donation link, too, and the registries have some new items on then, mostly lower-priced, to replace stuff damaged by the RV or given away when we first moved into it seven years ago. So please share our links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Still waiting for them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Even so, I've added some things (kitchen/dining room stuff mostly), most of which are comparatively reasonably priced. Now, it's going to be mostly odds and ends that make this place more liveable, because of the sheer volume of stuff destroyed by too many years in the RV (e.g., by the oven and stovetop, by the wiring, by the water, by the mold, etc.), or that we simply gave away seven years ago because we had no room and no place to put them and despaired of ever being able to use them again. A CHANGE ABOUT WAYFAIR:  NO MORE CROWDFUNDING. Their Web site coding is bad, and it will not permit crowdfunded items to ship. Items purchased outright arrive in two business days, but you can't even get the others out of the warehouse. I've spent the last month fighting with them about shipping the dozen or so things that folks fulfilled, and today's message was finally terse enough that they did the manual override, four whole weeks later, that I knew they could do but simply weren't bothering. But I'll be removing all the crowdfunding options. I'm supposed to keep my blood pressure down these days.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, and will be now for a while. But this is the holiday season, and the sales/commissions from these few weeks are what keep us alive throughout the whole long winter and spring months (to say nothing of what's in the offing medically), so please continue to share the links. And please refer folks to Wings's site (and if you have an endorsement, too, so much the better). I'll be trying, slowly but, I hope, steadily, to get caught up over the course of this week. We have some massive expenses coming down the pike, and a lot of testing yet to be done before I'm out of the woods. So please keep sharing all our links. For now, I'm just so damn grateful to be alive, to have a healthy heart, to be back home with the love of my life and our dogs, the whole world is beautiful. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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