Anchors. But they can only do so much.

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Anchors.  But they can only do so much. We really do need a scaffold.  Another impossibility.

We were finally able to get the first coat on the last big window upstairs and the second coat on most of the rest, but we had to move fast. We had a window, no pun intended, of just over an hour where the ambient air temp was warm enough to work with the paint. It won't be warm enough today, but I have a bunch of finish work to do, so I'll be out and doing painfully laborious stuff the rest of the day. Except when I'm coming indoors to check on the apples and pears, which we cannot afford to let go to waste, so I'll have apple butter and pear butter in the works again.

And my attention focus now has to making sales, although I seem to be a spectacular failure at it lately. I have got to bring in more money. October's Patreon payment has already gone on bills (speaking of anchors, that's our whole income now, and it's not nearly enough), and there are still another ~$725 due this week (and more medical stuff for me in early December), and, yes, I'm scared. I need to bring in at least $1,000 this week just to cover [barring any new disasters] those bills and the rest of the month, and I have no idea how when no one's buying.

We have got to make sales. Normally, Wings would already be in the middle of multiple commissions in the works by now, but nothing's normal anymore. I don't know what to do at this point; I can't conjure money from thin cold air. I posted two new pieces a few nights ago (links here) and another the night after that (links here). The new bracelet in the works is turning out not to be a bracelet at all; I'll explain when it drops, which might be this weekend. He has a number of other things in process, too; I'll post them as he completes them.

At any rate, my stress levels are off the charts along with my pain levels now. For those wondering about my own health issues, see here, although now there's a new wrinkle I'm not even going to bother to try to explain (suffice to say there's no affording treatment); with regard to the work being done, some of the details are here. Thanks to my Patreon subscribers (not sure who?) who updated their cards; I'm now down only between $25 and $50 for October. Still, I'm going to need help to get all this, the plumbing and everything else, done and handled, and I can't do it alone. Folks can help in several ways, and we really need it now:

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

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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