Winter is coming.

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Look at those cornstalks; serious winds today. It's going to get cold tonight, and we have our first "official" freeze warning. No real precipitation down here to speak of, but I'm guessing there will be a new dusting of snow on some of the peaks by tomorrow morning.

I also guessing that much of the color will be gone.

Winter is coming, and all indications are that it will be sooner than in recent years. Which is not a bad thing [except for unhoused folks, for whom it will be very, very hard]. But the land needs it.

This week has just been unreal in terms of time, or rather, lack thereof, and getting things done. 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 four sales this week, 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. [I don't actually think we'l be able to have them back next week anyway, cost notwithstanding, because we're supposed to have intermittent rains most of the week, but it needs to be done before winter actually settles in for the duration.]

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 the 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:

• 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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