In spite of the freaking wind.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Happy dog.

That's Cricket, the feral with severe PTSD from the abuse he suffered as a puppy before he found his way here. We still can't pet him, after more than five years. But he's happy here, he knows this is his home, he loves us, and Sunny and Stormy are his whole life. After what he endured, it's good to see him like this, rolling in pure joyous abandon. 

In spite of the freaking wind.

It was bad today, although I admittedly was expecting worse. They say tomorrow and Thursday are supposed to be that "worse," and I'm hoping not to have to venture out for anything more than filling the dog dishes and the chickens' scratch.

Everything's late because we had to run several errands today. The big ones, by my reckoning, involved the post office: shipping orders to a couple of different friends, and also getting a postmark on our second big payment, which puts us at the 3/4-paid point for this year's taxes ('22). I'll worry about the ghastly '23 prepayments after these are done, but it was a big relief just to get this much of it behind us already. Then there was the hardware store (bolts, apparently very hard to find) and the grocery store, and I ain't going nowhere tomorrow.

Still getting caught up on practical stuff around here. There's always so much to do, and it's really piled up in recent weeks for me, for obvious reasons, so now it's time to get back to it. I also need to chase sales, and speaking of that, I posted Wings's three newest works the other night, here. The smallest pair of earrings is already sold, but the other two items remain available, and they're both at lower price points than most of his work in their categories.

In the meantime, all of our links are here; BIG emphasis on sales for now, for obvious reasons. Basically, we need to bring in roughly one sale a week to cover everything anyway; if I can bring in just a couple more before month's end, I'll feel good about where we are at the moment. Here are all the links:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priority, because this week I've been forced to eliminate another staple from my diet just to function rather minimally, and someone mentioned that perhaps our old non-stick pans, which are in fact long since well beyond their useful date, are making the matter worse, so there's a non-PFAS replacement set at the top that would help with cooking/cleanup/my hands/my illness; and yes, the Zero-Odor sprays are still useful right now, although these days it's dusty dogs, not wet ones); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, so please share all of the links. 

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