So unspeakably glad the weekend is here.

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Punkins! That's the ripest of the bunch so far, but there are several in various stages between dark green and bright orange. They're all small, but that's fine. If I decide to make pies with any of them, they'll be the right size [and sweetness].

I am so unspeakably glad the weekend is here. Wings sent the guys home an hour early because of the heat, and tomorrow and Sunday we won't have to go anywhere, see anyone, do anything other than our daily work [which has been suffering terribly this week with all the interruptions]. Yesterday was twelve kinds of hell, beginning with the fact that I'd had no sleep, which is the worst possible thing for folks with autoimmune diseases, and I could barely think or function, and yet I was slammed harder with things that had to get done to other people's schedules than in the rest of the week put together.

I got to bed sometime after 11 and didn't get up until 5:45 this morning. Of course, today was another hellscape, mostly involving errands and me standing in lines for ridiculous amounts of time, but at least I had had enough sleep to function. But it was a horribly expensive day, that repair bill from yesterday plus the guys' pay for the week plus groceries which have gone up to ludicrous levels plus well over $200 in scrips for both of us [and there are more to come for next week, plus doctor's visits that will cost us both]. Sometimes I feel so discouraged by everything, because there's never any let-up.

I also can't keep up the constant stress of the demands on me, money, time, constant nonsense, whatever. My disease progression is making it impossible to get even the most basic stuff done, and I can't afford that right now, even less than usual. The holiday creative season effectively begins on October first, and we will both be running 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, until the end of the year. He also has to finish the last half-dozen or so commissions that are in the works before he can turn his attention to cranking out holiday inventory in any real way. And we need to bring in sales now, 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. It's been two weeks since our last sale, and that's not going to cut it. 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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