We can hope.

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The last icicle. Sort of. The last one out in the open, anyway; those in the shade are still hanging around, at least in greatly shortened form. This one will no doubt be gone tomorrow.

It's what happens when it's twenty degrees too warm. It got up almost to 50 today, and that's bad. Not as bad as the high sixties of a week or so ago, but still not great. They say we'll get more snow on Thursday, but what was originally forecast as three days of snow showers has been truncated to one. Which no doubt means we'll be lucky to get even a single dusting, but we can hope.

Hope has not served us particularly well this year on most fronts, though. Certainly not on this last long weekend and ensuing couple of days into the following week, which normally constitute the busiest shopping days of the year. Normally we'd make at least a few sales over this period, but so far, we have not had a single sale. Then again, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year. It's grim. And I don't know what more I can do.

Taking our images off both Twitter accounts has destroyed our site traffic, from hundreds of human hits a day to nothing but crawlers and bots. And we can't afford that. I'm sure our stance on Palestine has hurt us, too, but there's nothing we can do about that; we are Indigenous peoples whose ancestors were slaughtered in genocides and if we cannot do the minimum right thing in the face of a brutal genocide now, what would that make us? 

So apparently, that means pushing sales all the harder. I figure if I can bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, we'll be in halfway decent shape. But that's not looking likely, given how slow business is, and of course, with my illness worsening [knee slightly better, but still not functional], the combined stress and the added workload are not helping. And I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (liquid soaps are priority now [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 will 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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