Yes, it's that day.

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We've been on the run literally all day, no time for anything, but Grandmother Moon apparently decided to give us a gift for our wedding anniversary today. Yes, it's that day again already. No, we didn't do anything for it, because we were too busy with work for the business, and besides, we don't eat out in restaurants now anyway; it's not safe. [We haven't been out to dinner for our anniversary the last three years, because in 2019 we were both sick and couldn't shake it (and now we wonder about that), and 2020 and 2021 were andare pandemic-ridden.] Our one concession to it was to pick up pizza (takeout) for dinner, and now we're sitting in front of the game, finally unwinding a little bit.

Well, he is. I'm doing all my usual morning work that I couldn't get to today because I was packing and shipping orders. But it beats being on my feet like I was so much today, and without my cane because I couldn't figure out a way to wrangle it and the packages at the same time.

Yes, still running flat-out all day every day to try to meet deadlines and get everything done that needs doing, but it's looking like that might ease off after Monday, and it can't come soon enough. Tomorrow will be a mess and Monday will too, but then I'm hoping we settle back into something a little more routine. Yes, this is our busiest time of year, but that's the nature of what we do; from October 1st through year's end, it's 16-hour+ days, seven days a week. No breaks. And because of the shipping mess, we're in crunch time already. For those folks having us hold items, we need to get this wrapped up now because of said shipping mess. Wings has new pieces in the works, too, although at the moment he's tied up with more immediate orders; I expect that some of the new items will be available next week or the week after.

Yes, it always comes back to needing to make more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter. And again, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. [And that includes just ordinary orders for the holidays, too.] Yes, I mean NOW. We're dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to continue to make sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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