We can only hope.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

The cottonwoods down the highway have gone gold.  It looks like one giant tree, but it's actually two that have grown up together, their upper branches intertwined, and they are absolutely glorious in fall, when they're gold like this, and winter, when they're covered with snow.

Tomorrow, I suspect a lot of trees will have a lot fewer leaves, though. We are now getting the leading edge of what are supposed to be two days of gale-force winds, and in between, they're supposed to usher in our first hard freeze overnight.

We can only hope. I'm tired of sneezing because the chamisa and cow parsley have lasted weeks too long.

I'm beat, besides. Yesterday wiped me out, and my knees, feet, and hands are all wrecked. I need to let them rest, and I can't; it's that time of year when everything speeds up to a ridiculously high velocity, and the stress does the same. And I've still got to try to get his two new pieces up by tonight.

I mean, everybody already knows that this year has been terrible on virtually every front, so much so that we're really up against it now. This year has been so slow that we're way behind on everything, including prepaying next year's taxes [that's a zero; a big fat zero]. The rapid progression of my autoimmune disease this year isn't helping, especially not these last few weeks. With my dominant-hand dislocations, and those in my knees and feet, it's meant that I can't DO anything, for weeks now. It's also meant that Wings has had to take over all the stuff I would normally do, and so he hasn't been able to get much studio time. And I'm so much farther behind on everything, even more than I usually am: pushing sales, paperwork, housework, you name it. And yes, I managed to torque it again today, because when you instinctively need to throw out a hand, you forget.

We have to make up a LOT of ground financially over the next three+ months. A LOT. And it's clear that, even if my dominant hand and wrist weren't functionally unuseable, I cannot maintain the pace or workload I have in years past. Half the time I can hardly walk, because my hips, knees, and feet are the same situation. That means that we need help with shares, and with testimonials, too. If you have some of Wings's work and are willing to have a testimonial published on the site, send it to me via the Contact form (we will list you however you wish, by name, name and initial, initials only, some other way that doesn't identify you; you can see an example n our newest, here). All the links are listed below, so please share:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (apparently the sponges are unavailable, but the other two things I need that I can't get here are the Bar Keeper's Friend coffeemaker cleaner and descaler; we're entirely out of both [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there wll be much, much more in the weeks to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays will be here before you know it, so please share all of the links. 

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