It'll get below zero tonight.

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Low-lying bands of fog this morning, beneath flawless blue skies. Now the fog has lifted a bit higher, broken up into larger patches, but there's more of it, plus a few puffs of white above and behind the ridgelines.

And 6+ inches of snow on the ground, and very cold temperatures. last night's putative low was supposed to be seven [yes, as in 7, as in single digits], although it's always colder here than what the forecast predicts; tonight, the forecast is two [2].

Which means that it'll get below zero tonight.

Which is fine; the deep cold keeps the snow around longer, which in turn lets it sink into the soil more thoroughly. And the current forecast is for more snow on Thursday, so maybe we'll get lucky.

On the weather front, I mean. Still decidedly unlucky on the sales front right now; none at all thus far this weekend, which is really rare for us. Then again, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year, and I don't know what to do at this point. It's grim.

Taking our images off both Twitter accounts has destroyed our site traffic, from hundreds of human hits a day to nothing but crawlers and bots. And we can't afford that. I'm sure our stance on Palestine has hurt us, too, but there's nothing we can do about that; we are Indigenous peoples whose ancestors were slaughtered in genocides and if we cannot do the minimum right thing in the face of a brutal genocide now, what would that make us? 

So apparently, that means pushing sales all the harder. I figure if I can bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, we'll be in halfway decent shape. But that's not looking likely, given how slow business is, and of course, with my illness worsening [newly dislocated right knee yesterday evening, meaning no sleep at all courtesy of the pain, and I can barely move today], the combined stress and the added workload are not helping. And I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (liquid soaps are priority now [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much, much more in the weeks to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays will be here before you know it, so please share all of the links. 

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