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Six pairs of hoops in 2 or 3 sizes, hand-made, then put through the tumbler. They glow. I won't be able to get photos of the pairs before tomorrow; the smaller ones will be $225 + s/h/i; the larger ones, $275 + s/h/i. Each pair is unique.
It's been a ridiculously busy day [week, month, year] for both of us. Also kind of a tough day; on this day 12 years ago, just after 1 PM, is when we lost Major, our big dog. Half chocolate Lab, half German shorthaired pointer, my parents adopted him from their local shelter about a dozen years before that. He had had a hard, traumatic life, when their health worsened, we took him on with our own dogs. Here, he got constant exercise, lost a lot of weight, got his hip function back, and had a terrific life until the cancer that is a cluster here, that took virtually all of our dogs [and horses] in one way or another, finally won out.
He was a hound, a hunter, and a hero, too; he rescued the rez ups from a prairie rattler once, and got bit on the muzzle for his trouble. I could not reach Wings [dead spots all over here back then], and it left me no choice but to do the old suck-and-spit routine and then pack it with traditional medicine. When Wings finally made it home, we got him to the emergency vet [still a thing in 2009], and they were so impressed with the tradish stuff that they decided he only needed a half-course of antivenin [and they were right].
A dozen years gone already. At least he's free of the pain from the cancer, and with the others. We have two more such markers this month still ahead of us. April is the worst, though; five of them.
Meanwhile, we're both completely overloaded work-wise, and expense-wise, too. I'm probably going to late with everything, behind on everything, dropping the ball on everything. So you've all had fair warning. The big thing that needs to happen this week is sales, and if you're looking for a gift for that special someone for Valentine's Fay, this is the week to do it, because we can still ship Priority and have it there in plenty of time. Also, I've got a bunch of medical and other stuff to cover for us, so . . . yeah, I need to sell some of his work, and fast.
Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still more than a week in the hole now. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is, but I will say that Sunday was the first day in at least two months that my body did not feel as though it was literally dying around me every second so maybe the increased dosages in both immunosuppressants are working? Yesterday was chemo day, though, the first higher dose [a lower one two days from now, too], and I definitely haven't felt very well. Today, first of this week's 3-day steroid burst. We'll see. Because regardless of side effects, I've got to do something to bring in sales, although damned if I know what at this point. It's grim. Links are here:
- Sales here;
- Testimonials here;
- Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
- Patreon here;
- Ko-fi here.
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