NOPE.

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Finally, some snow on the peaks, and enough cold for it to stick. Not down here, again, although the ground did look white very early this morning. That was frost, though, not snow, and it was all gone by about 9 AM. Still, by "gone," I mean "melted into the ground," so there's that. Also, there's supposed to be snow on Thursday [we'll see].

I had expected — planned — for this to be a comparatively easy day. It's our wedding anniversary, and while all the repairs we've had to handle this year [and their astronomical costs] meant we weren't doing gifts, we were at least hoping for a quiet day. NOPE. Stormy has come up with something very wrong. It smacks of vaccinosis, which runs the gamut from a little temporary inflammation to deadly stuff, and there's often no way to tell. In her case, it could just be a muscle impinging on a nerve[s], but 1) that's still vaccinosis, and 2) there's no way to gauge what else might be going on, nor how serious this might be. She's in discomfort at times, but apparently no pain, which is presumably good, because I called the vet, was promised a call back from the vet herself, and . . . nothing. So we'll be on the phone when they open in the morning, but good grief. At least right now she's crashed out on her dog bed in front of the fire, seemingly very comfortable and perfectly happy. But she could use whatever good vibes ya got [and so could we, because aside from being scared to death, there's also the looming cost, which could get very high very fast if this goes sideways].

And still no sales. I'm so tired, and basically at the end of my tether. Christmas is a month away, and we shold be well into the sales swing by now, but . . . again, NOPE. I did get his four new items added the other day, here, here, here, and here. Did not get the fifth posted last night; but the photos are already out there. But I have GOT to SELL some of them, because this sales drought is killing us, and there is absolutely no way that I can pay all the things I have to pay this week, order Miika's meds, replace Wings's hearing aids, now cover Stormy's impending vet costs, and a whole bunch of things without multiple sales this week.

Because 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. 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 [rugs! finally getting around to trying to replace the ones ruined two winters ago when our leachfield collapsed and flooded everything, and these are inexpensive];
• 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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