Heavy out there today.

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The northwest side that fronts along the highway, yesterday morning. The temps plummeted into the 30s in the early hours of yesterday, and again overnight last night. By yesterday evening, there was a lot more gold than shown there, and there's even more now. There's also a massive storm, nowhere in the forecast but splattered all over the radar map, hovering just off to the west, so today is gray with a feeling of impending . . . something. Not that the rain is bad; exactly the opposite. But it feels heavy out there today.

Heavy in other ways, too. We haven't made a sale in a couple of weeks or more, and tomorrow I have to get my labs done regardless; I also have to refill two scrips, one of which is my rescue inhaler. I'm hoping I can keep the latter to under $100, but the former's gonna be a big hit. Wings dropped his latest last night — layered vintage-style dangle earrings, and they are fabulous; you can see them here. Please share them, because we really, really, desperately need to make some sales now. [Wings is up on the deck trying to rainproof it before the storm hits (i.e., with plywood and tarps, not sealant); we can't afford to have the guys back to work on it, and I don't know when, or even whether, we will.]

Again, I'll be bumping Ona's post up after this, because donations have mostly tanked over the weekend. Thank you to the dear soul who got him finally over the $10K mark yesterday (yes, I see you). Ideally, I'd like to see him pass $15K before the week is out. We need y'all to keep sharing while the family tries to get transport issues sorted out and keep his recovery going simultaneously.

The rest is all cut-and-paste. I have my own stubborn insistence on survival, no matter how far behind I get, but I'm way behind now and have to get on it. I have labs this week, and at this point, I really need the result to be good.

For those wondering about my own health issues, see here; with regard to the work being done, some of the details are here. We still have to get the plumber in to finish up, and I regard that as a bigger priority right now in practical terms, so whatever we take in sales-wise will have to go to that. This is all complicated by the fact that, for August, a record number/amount of my Patreon patrons' cards were declined, too, so that income is lower than usual (no, I don't know who and haven't checked; I'm not going to contact anyone who probably is already scrambling to juggle their own stuff, too).

Anyway. Back to the grind; so I need help to get all this done. Folks can help in several ways, and we really need the help now:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here. 

On the wishlist, now the cold is here at night, the flies are not quite so bad, but the fly traps are still a priority. The other top priorities are the dish drainer, because we're going to need to take care of some cabinet-top stuff when the guys are here next week, or whenever we get them back out here; and the candles, to deal with the residual mildew odor in the utility room, which I hope the plumber will be here to finish next week (the utility room work, not the mildew). But the costs on all of this are . . . killing us right now.

And as I said, sales are ideal, of course; one or two of Wings's bigger pieces would cover the whole shot for this round of work. Patreon subscriptions are good, too. Either way, it's a trade for value. But I'm already feeling panicked at what we thought would be our schedule being so suddenly and thoroughly upended, and we'll take it however it comes at this point. 

Please share everything, because I'm suddenly back behind the eight-ball on a whole additional front, and yeah, I'm scared about covering everything and surviving, too. Thanks.

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