The most immediate problem.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

The last few minutes here. We weren't supposed to get any rain today; then again, what was supposed to be a few showers yesterday narrowly missed being a tornado, and the rains were off and on, mostly on, for twelve hours straight.

It's a wonderful gift; despite the cold, the land is breathing again. 

Me, not so much. I'm at the end of my tether on multiple fronts, not least of which is the pain and joint/tissue damage. What happens when I can't do basic things like make coffee anymore? Walk from here to his studio? Feed the dogs? Feed us? Because I now have to worry about it getting to that point, if something doesn't reverse itself soon.

And that's not even the most immediate problem.

No, that belongs to the financial pressures on us right now. I physically can't do everything that needs doing, and I just don't have enough hours in the day to push sales the way it needs to be done. And with half a dozen sales so far this year? We are not going to make it. It's the middle of September; we have three and a half months to get through, and he needs to stock up on supplies for holiday work. We have a whole winter to get through, which last much, much longer than that. 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. 

But ultimately, none of that matters if I don't bring money in, and I'm failing spectacularly at that this year. I'm stretching myself too thin, trying to update numerous platforms daily, and none of it's working; our Web site hits are still at record lows (save for the hack attempts, natch), and sales, of course, are abysmal. And this, going into our supposed busy season of the year. We have to make up a LOT of ground financially over the next four 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]. I need help, but there isn't any, and there's nothing to be done about illness except try to adapt to it worsening rapidly now. 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 things are not just grim here, they're desperate. So please share all of the links. 

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