Don't have time for that.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

The larger fire maple is showing signs of the first red of the season. Just a little at the very top, but it's visible.

The mercury, of course, had other ideas today: a good ten degrees hotter, and after the recent cool, very uncomfortable. Particularly when stuck on my feet on a hard floor, crowded too closely in a pharmacy line with ten people ahead of me, no air conditioning, the staff run off their feet, and error after error keeping me stuck there the better part of an hour.

I'm in agony now, of course. It's amazing how little walking (or standing) I can do anymore. I'll really pay for it tomorrow. And it's not just my feet; it's really demoralizing to realize that you can't do really basic stuff anymore. Packing two orders for shipment today? Just trying to put the rubber bands around the gift boxes was agonizing (and incredibly clumsy). Writing? Forget about it; it's illegible now.

And tomorrow I will be mostly nonfunctional, and I don't have time for that.

Of course, I still physically can't do everything that needs doing on any other front, either, and I just don't have enough hours in the day to push sales the way it needs to be done. We have been blessed with a couple of sales now, and some breathing room that we haven't had in a long while. But he will still need to stock up on supplies (silver, stones, etc.) for building that holiday inventory. We have a whole winter to get through, too, which lasts much, much longer than that, and we'll need firewood. Wings has already abandoned any notion of getting the dental work that he so badly needs to have done properly; I canceled last week's medical appointment for myself; and we're focused solely on the sales, on making it ourselves, and on helping other folks to make it if and when we can. 

We have to make up a LOT of ground financially over the next three+ months. A LOT. And I cannot maintain the pace or workload I have in years past; hell, I can barely walk, and I have to limit my typing time now, too [constant dislocations in my dominant hand]. That means that we need help with shares, and with testimonials, too. If you have some of Wings's work and are willing to have a testimonial published on the site, send it to me via the Contact form (we will list you however you wish, by name, name and initial, initials only, some other way that doesn't identify you). All the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the sponges are unavailable, but the other two things I need that I can't get here are the Bar Keeper's Friend coffeemaker cleaner and descaler; we're entirely out of both [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and the five new pairs of concha earrings went up the other day, here (one is sold, but the other four remain available). The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while, so please share all of the links. 

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