Part of the land. A slow weekend, but working on it. Holiday commission season is here, so shares still needed.

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From yesterday. You should see it from the road. We had to run a couple of errands today — picking cedar, a run by the post office, a short trip to the market — and from the highway, before you hit the curve? It's fully visible, and yet it blends in so perfectly to the environment that it takes a moment to bring it into focus. Between the plaster and the deck, the colors are the same as those of the land and trees and mountain slopes right now. It feels like it's part of the land here.

Yes, I'm taking it slowly. Mostly, I just ride along. I was able to do a few things here (that involved mostly going back and forth in the house, no lifting or anything), but my BG is still seriously low, and neither brain nor body is back to real function yet. (Dinner's going to be simple in the extreme tonight: buffalo tacos.) All that said, it's been a wonderful weekend in other ways, because the chance to live together, here, in our house, as husband and wife has been nothing short of pure joy. 

 But once again, pretty much everything below this point is just going to be cut and paste, because my brain can't even focus enough to figure out what might be wrong/out of date/otherwise inapplicable. Please just ignore whatever doesn't make any sense (probably a lot of it). Whatever happened two weeks ago has ratcheted up the problem with brain fog in a fairly significant way, and by this time of night, my cognitive abilities are already packing it in. Just know that I will be late and I will miss everything and none of it is intentional, but I just don't have the resources right now to fix it. To be clear, I am better. I'm also not taking it for granted. But this whole thing has loused up my ability to focus and function, and there's no magic wand for that but time and recovery.

As I said last night, I think — think — we'll be mostly okay on donations for the next few weeks (and thank you, thank you, dear friend), but I'll leave the link below anyway. More important are sales — if you want to commission something for the holidays, now is the time to get it in — and the other stuff. And I know that I have some commissions to get back to folks on, and I hope I'm caught up enough on everything this weekend to do that; apologies for my tardiness with everything, but the events of a week and a half ago threw a massive wrench in the works across the board, and I am slow getting back on my feet and to everything that needs doing. I will continue to be slow, and will continue to miss things, at least as long as it takes me to get through all the testing that I need, so please bear with me. Trust me; no one's as frustrated by it as I am, but I'm working my way through everything step by step, per doctor's orders. In the meantime, here are the cut and paste of the links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Still waiting for them to resolve this fulfillment/shipping problem they have with their site. Even so, I've added some things (kitchen/dining room stuff mostly), most of which are comparatively reasonably priced. Now, it's going to be mostly odds and ends that make this place more liveable, because of the sheer volume of stuff destroyed by too many years in the RV (e.g., by the oven and stovetop, by the wiring, by the water, by the mold, etc.), or that we simply gave away seven years ago because we had no room and no place to put them and despaired of ever being able to use them again. But about Wayfair, and VERY IMPORTANT: They make it possible to crowdfund each item. So if you'd like to help, but the prices are too much for one person? You can kick in 20 bucks, or ten, or five, on any one item; many small donations can add up to one item.

As I've also been saying, I am still catching up, not only from the health issues (I'm still not allowed to do anything but walk here and there to keep everything circulating properly; no, I'm not lifting anything, not maintaining anything but a gentle pace, not letting myself get stressed over anything as much as [super]humanly possible at this point), but also from the pace of the construction and the wedding. Wings is taking very good care of me, and I am taking care of myself, too. But this is the holiday season, and the sales/commissions from these few weeks are what keep us alive throughout the whole long winter and spring months, so please continue to share the links. And please refer folks to Wings's site (and if you have an endorsement, too, so much the better). I'll be trying, slowly but, I hope, steadily, to get caught up over the course of this week. Thanks again, to everybody, and we love you all.

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