Fall now.

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Fall now, no question. And no matter what the calendar says. Hot today, though; the weather service said it got up to 74, but here, we were just shy of 80 at noon, so as usual, they're underbilling it.

And we're both beat.

Today had us in holding patterns, waiting for other people, and that's always more exhausting than just about any amount of physical labor. We also lost another person on the bridge yesterday [the third in two weeks], and today it's being reported that it was a local child, 15, a trans youth, and the sheriff's department has named them and assigned pronouns, but I have every reason to expect that they're misgendering them, so I'm using they/them for now. I was unprepared for how much it would hurt my heart. That's only compounded by the soulless people bitching about delays and effects to tourism. That poor kid.

It's an evil society that drives children to such hopelessness.

Add my illness in full-blown flare on top of all that, and I'm feeling frankly miserable. But there's no time; the holiday creative season effectively begins on the first, and we will both be running 16 hours a day, and we need to bring in sales, both to cover his work building new inventory and simply to meet all the costs of this stupidly expensive year [on top of last year being the same]. If we could just continue to make regular weekly sales, we'd be fine . . . but we need to make those sales now, and so far, that's not happening. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up, but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference. This kind of stress is also not helping my health. I need that to change now, and fast. And to that end, links are here [with the LaminaSaver back on the wishlist, because Miika goes through it at a rapid clip]:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priority at the moment is more of the LaminaSaver for Miika];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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