A lot of wind; no rain in sight.

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As usual lately, the forecast was full of it: a lot of wind; no rain in sight, either yesterday or today. It's also unseasonably hot today, and I'm overdressed, because I thought it was going to stay chilly. So much to do, I haven't even had time to change.

No rain of any kind right now. I'm keeping tomorrow's doctor's appointment; under the circumstances, I really need to go, but it's going to be expensive. I also have to pay four figures' worth of quarterly taxes between now and the 15th of the month. My Patreon was down $250+ for August, and again now for September (it still hasn't gone through). Folks, please check your subscriptions, because I suspect the issue is one of newishly-expired cards on file with Patreon.

As always, I'll bump Ona's post back to the top in a moment. He's at $13,525 right this moment, and I wanted to see him hit $15K before the end of the weekend, but nothing doing, apparently. He's averaging one small donation a day, and that's not going to be nearly enough. I'd like to see it up to $20K for him by the end of this week. We need y'all to keep sharing while the family tries to get transport issues sorted out and keep his recovery going simultaneously. [The transport stuff will require a lot of logistical finessing on a lot of fronts, not the least of which is the medical one, so it's a long process.]

There is so much we have to get done now, too, and so little time in which to do it, and I'm still fighting both a migraine (3 of the last 4 days now, and no sleep) and debilitating body-wide pain again today, so it's a slog. And we have got to make some steady sales soon; work-wise, nothing is a greater priority than that right now, and we're making, well, none. We do need to pick up stones and other supplies before we really get into the holiday creative season for Wings, which means soon. And I'm still watching the expenses continue to pile up, and there's nothing coming in to pay for them, and I'm losing my mind trying to juggle it all. Also feeling myself get sucked into the depression undertow again, a combination of being disheartened at how badly this is all going and just the constant hammering of pain at me in ways that none of the medicine, traditional or otherwise, can handle. The rest is all cut-and-paste. I have my own stubborn insistence on survival, no matter how far behind I get, but I'm way behind now and have to get on it. 

For those wondering about my own health issues, see here; with regard to the work being done, some of the details are here. We still have to get the plumber in to finish up, and I regard that as a bigger priority right now in practical terms, so whatever we take in sales-wise will have to go to that. 

Anyway. Back to the grind; so I need help to get all this done. Folks can help in several ways, and we really need the help now:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here. 

On the wishlist, now the cold is here at night, the flies are getting chased out by the cold, so the top priority is the candles, to deal with the residual mildew odor in the utility room, which I hope the plumber will be here to finish next week now (the utility room work, not the mildew, and yeah, I know I said that last week and the week before and the week before that, too, but there's no money for it). Our electric bill for the summer has been sky-high, in relative terms, because of the need to keep the fan running to push it out the window. And the costs on all of this are killing us right now.

And as I said, sales are ideal, of course; one or two of Wings's bigger pieces would cover the whole shot for this round of work. Patreon subscriptions are good, too. Either way, it's a trade for value. But I'm already feeling panicked at what we thought would be our schedule being so suddenly and thoroughly upended, and we'll take it however it comes at this point. 

Please share everything, because I'm suddenly back behind the eight-ball on a whole additional front, and yeah, I'm scared about covering everything and surviving, too. Thanks.

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