This time of year is beautiful.

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After the last couple of nights of cold temps, lots of color today. The red has especially begun to show itself as of this morning, on the vines and the maples both; on the peaks and slopes, the aspens are gold and the gambel oak orange now.

This time of year is beautiful; if only we had more time to enjoy it.

After 40+ hours with no sleep, I slept later this morning than I intended, which meant I didn't get the jump on the day [or the week] that I had planned. We both did get a great deal done today, but not the things we were hoping and planning to do. Which is why I'm doing all my daily work at 9:30 at night.

Again.

It doesn't help that every night without sleep sets me back multiple days, but that's the nature of this disease, and there's nothing I can do about that. I am, at least, getting steroid shots later this week [for the first time], and I'm hoping that it takes enough of the edge off the pain to allow me to sleep more consistently for a while. And that, in turn, might let me get caught up a little before the holiday creative season really gets under way.

In the meantime, I've GOT to bring in sales, and I've got to do it regularly, at least, if not actually daily. That holiday creative season effectively begins on October first, the day after tomorrow, 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; hell, last week, set us back about $1K in cash, between the repair and he guys and scrips and medical stuff]. 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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