My idea of fall.

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Lots of color now. It's beautiful here. And in theory, we're supposed to get rain again starting Saturday, which means that it will cool off, at long last. These 80+ days are not my idea of fall. My idea of fall is sharp, cold mornings that steal your breath and a mercury that never gets above "sweater weather."

I said that yesterday was a lot, and yet somehow, today was even more so. Now, I'm profoundly irritated, because people are just so determined to be edgelord assholes, and it's all so unnecessary. That includes institutions locally; there is one that is openly violating its mission, and I have my own suspicions why that would be, but it's unacceptable, and they won't get any support from us until they clean house. At any rate, the very people they're supposed to be helping are the ones dealing with the fallout, which in turn means that [to a far, far lesser degree] I am too, trying to help them work around awful situations that were supposed to be resolved and instead were made worse.

Yeah, I know, I'm grumpy. But the whole fucking world is on fire, and you'd think that people would recognize that they might very soon need help themselves and stop being assholes to everyone else, but no.

In the meantime, I've GOT to bring in sales, and I've got to do it regularly, at least, if not actually daily. We were incredibly blessed to make one today, which helps get us back on track a bit, but we'll need to bring in substantially more if we're going to bring the guys back to finish the repairs next week. [If I'm honest, there's a part of me that likes that idea, because it's so exhausting, but it needs to be done before winter, and we're already supposed to be getting rain most of next week.]

And that holiday creative season effectively began yesterday, and we're both already running 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. And it'll be that way until the end of the year. He also has to finish the last half-dozen or so commissions that are in the works [all of which are in various stages of completion] 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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