Colors changing fast. Not enough changing on the medical front (except for the worse, natch). Sales and subscribers needed now, and shares, too.

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The south slope of the Spoonbowl yesterday afternoon. That's how much the colors have changed already. It's far too early, yet here we are.

More work on the landing of the stairs going on right now, which means, despite the haze from that stupid prescribed burn over at SFNF, I'm working outside in front of Wings's studio (I can't work inside it, because the wifi doesn't reach now). Also, the pups made it through another indoors with no accidents, although one of them ::cough Crow cough:: found the little empty case for my O2 finger monitor on a shelf and decided that chewing off the strap was a very important thing to do. 

A lot going on right now, and a lot of expense, and it looks like I'm going to have to wait for imaging until I can afford the CT scans down in Santa Fe (cheaper there than here, with more skilled image reading). In the meantime, I just keep, well, dealing, as I have been for nearly a year now, with no answers and now help for it. Yesterday was a nightmare: air clogged with smoke from SFNF, where they've decided the weather conditions are "right" for a burn, except, yanno, that whole drought thing. Plenty of haze today, too, and it's making hard to concentrate because I can't breathe well. And since I'm way, way behind on all kinds of things, I need to get back to it. But as I said yesterday, this breathing/coronary artery/fatigue/pain issue isn't going away, and there's nowhere near enough coming in to pay either those bills or everything else that will be coming down the pike. Once winter gets here, the cold will aggravate everything that much more, so I need to get some things done while I still can. It's all wearing me out physically, mentally, and every other way, so the rest is cut-and-paste.

There are a lot of ways to help out. First, obviously, is sales; purchases of Wings's work (and/or work by the other artists whose art we carry) is always the first option, and it was the baseline for the construction in the first place. [And next week will be their last, most likely, because he don't have the cash to pay them beyond that for the labor — and right now, it's virtually all labor.] Second is subscribing to my Patreon page, which gets updated regularly with really cool imagery and a good amount of really good writing; if you now for September, you won't be billed until October 1st. Below there's also a link for "coffee," which allows folks to make small donations, and a couple of wishlists for keeping the animals in kibble and filling out needs around the house. In the middle is the link to Wings's PayPal account, and no, I won't turn away any donations, because we have to get this done and I have to have some peace of mind over it because I have none over my own survival these days). The only fundraising we'll be doing is right here; nowhere else. So here are all the links; please share them around, and if you are able to purchase, subscribe, donate, whatever, we'd be profoundly grateful:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• 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).

That all I've got. I'm going to be back under the gun for the next several weeks. Thanks to everyone in advance. 

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