They're small, but they're bright.

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They're small, but they're bright.

We lost a lot of our corn crop this year; it was stunted by drought and soil aridification and the problems with early warming/late freezing in spring and summer. So what ears we did get are small, but the good ones? The color is intense. It's impossible to tell in the photo, but the one on the left is that deep purplish-red; the other three are all blue corn. I think there are a few more ears hidden deep and low in the center of the stalks, and I'll look for them tomorrow.

Today's been a mess, schedule-wise. Every time I have to go into town, for any reason, it completely fucks up my own work. Add to that it involved a lot of unavoidable expense, and it turns out one of my badly needed scrips is back-ordered indefinitely due to a "global shortage" [read: federal fuckery], and I'm feeling really screwed right now. And yes, I'll be up half the night again getting my work done.

As usual anymore.

I clearly need to fix that, because it's destroying what little health I still have, but I can't do that until I fix the problem of no sales. I need to bring in a hell of lot more than we are now. How I do any of that before January is beyond me, given what this season is like in terms of work, and also given how far behind we are thanks to this disastrous year. There is so much new work, and there will soon be a lot more that's newer still. Trouble is, after this god-awful year, we need to make a sale a day now, on average, and we're nowhere near that.

The last two years have all but killed us financially, and I need to get us caught up to make it through the end of the year. Among that new work is the pair of earrings I posted here the other day, which you can find here; the necklace I posted here yesterday has a whole new bail, and I'm planning to get it up on the site yet tonight. But whatever else, 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 [daily now, really] 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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