Not a single drop of rain.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Beautiful clouds. Not a single drop of rain.

Not of either type, but the outgo never stops. $216 cash out the door this morning on prescriptions, mostly due to one of Wings's that has been around for decades and is generic, but they've suddenly decided, apparently, that "supply-chain issues" are cause for gouging.

Endless heat, endless drought, endless autoimmune pain, no sales, Patreon down by more than $300 a month in subscriptions, that absolutely absurd cost of dental work in this shithole country, and the expenses don't let up.

I might have a couple of new works today for the Accessories category; we'll see how much time I have, since today's errands have already put me even more behind than usual. I also posted Wings's newest trio on Saturday, linked below, but I sincerely wish we could sell some of our existing inventory. Sales have been terribly slow all year, and I still have to figure out a way to cover not just regular monthly expenses but next year's quarterly tax prepayments (due this year, obvs; that's why they're called prepayments), and $25K to fix Wings's multiply-botched dental work. I'ts a medical necessity, not cosmeetic, but try convincing this evil system of that. I'm not numb anymore. I'm tired, I'm scared, but I'm not numb. I'm mad as hell. Meanwhile, our Web site hits are down drastically from what they should be in any given month, never mind the middle of the year. This despite the fact that there's a lot of new work on the site already, including last week's new gemstone bead trio, here. Meanwhile, he has more silverwork in rotation, too (two cuffs, more earrings). And . . . $25K. I don't know when we can get to that, even the beginnings of it (and they're worried about his bite collapsing from the damage from prior dentists, so time matters here in ways we didn't realize). But I don't have any way to solve that outside of making sales, so I'm begging folks, please: All the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (current priority still the Zero-Odor sprays, because these days we're back to wet dogs again; and the liquid soaps, which we can't get locally); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and things are grim here, so please share all of the links. 

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