Visibly gold.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Last full day of official summer, and the aspen line is visibly gold. Wings's phone sent him his morning reminders of photos he's taken, and one was from tomorrow's date five years ago — much more gold already visible. Why? Because that was the first brutal year that transformed a 500-year drought into a 1,200-year one, the year that we got a summer of no rain. Which means that we're a little better off this year in that respect . . . but worse off in terms of the longer view, because the damage has been done and is accelerating now.

Still. It's fall, has been for more than a month now, and official fall shows up around midday tomorrow, so it's a time of hope. Yes, I know, most people find hope in spring, but for us, fall and winter children that we are, it's this time of year, and we both found our moods already lifted a bit this morning with that knowledge. Today is beautiful, bright clear skies and technically ten degrees warmer, although the temperature feels at least as cool thanks to the knife-edge on the wind. The lack of rapid-fire changes in barometric pressure that we've had this last week or two also means that our joints are suffering that little bit less, and as bad as it's been, for both of us? Even a little bit of improvement is noticeable.

Of course, I still 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. We have been blessed with a sale now, and that gives us breathing room we haven't had in some time. But October is now just around the corner, and that's the official start of our holiday sales season, and he needs to stock up on supplies for building that inventory. We have a whole winter to get through, too, which lasts 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; 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 yesterday, here. 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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