Compensations.

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Rough day, but it had its compensations. Wings is shelling pinto beans, and those are the pumpkins and sweet onions from the garden. We're supposed to get our first true hard freeze overnight tonight [and this time, I think it will actually happen], so those needed to picked.  We also still had foliage color and plenty of flowers, one solitary sweat bee, and one lonely bumblebee. They will likely be gone tomorrow.

Rough day in part because I'm operating on no sleep. The storm arrived very early last night, just after I went to bed [1 AM? I don't even know anymore, I'm working so late every night]. Lots of lightning, and lots of thunder, and Sunny is afraid of thunder. Last night, he was an absolute dervish; normally he'll calm down as long as he can lie down on the floor near us, wherever that happens to be, but not last night. I finally had to get up and go downstairs with him. But no sleep means guaranteed monster headache, exacerbated full-body pain, and brain fog, and I've had them all.

Which makes me a lot slower even than I usually am these days.

In the meantime, there are never enough hours in the day, and that just gets worse every year. I'll be working late again tonight, once again. I'm so tired.

I also need to bring in a lot more sales than what we've done on average this whole god-awful year. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up, but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference. I posted four new ones the other night, around midnight: those two pairs of earrings, both Goth-y and perfect for Spooky Season, here [this pair now sold!] and here; and two new necklaces, very different but also seasonally apt, here and here. And there's a lot more to come, once these two sets of commissions are done and with their people. But in the meantime, we [which means I] have got to change this trajectory, and fast. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• 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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