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A tiny aspen shoot, already bent beneath the burden of wind and cold and time.
I know how it feels, on all fronts. I'm bent almost double myself this morning just from pain. I also have to get upstairs and get to work on sanding the wood trim, because they say we have more weather coming Wednesday and Thursday, so these three days are our window. We have to get more of the sealer for the wood tomorrow, which is one more expense that has to come out of my diminished Patreon earnings. Without sales, we have one source of income now, and it has to pay gas, groceries, vehicle insurance, utilities, storage, and the horse vet bill. It can't cover all of them.
I can't do any more than this today; I don't have the time. The rest is all cut and paste, but it's all relevant, and it all matters.
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.
ASIDE: Patreon patrons, I'm imploring you: Check your subscription credit cards today. Even if you're sure you're fine, because you may not be. They processed October's subscriptions yesterday, and I'm still down $275+ for October. Right now? my Patreon is what's paying everything. And if people are not updating in lieu of telling me they're unsubscribing? I would honestly rather have folks unsubscribe than get sucked in by that glimmer of hope each month that the subscribed levels will actually pay out this time.
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. I'm still down $650+ on Patreon for the last two months, apparently as a result of folks not updating their expired credit cards, and I'm on track to lose $275+ again for October for the same reasons. I can't keep this up. I also 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:
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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