Nowhere near enough.

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Lots of stormclouds again; only a few scattered drops. We did get a decent soft rain last night, but it's nowhere near enough. Now, mid-afternoon, the skies are trying to clear again . . . and the heat is back. At the rate everything's going, by the time fall gets here, there won't be any colors left. All the leaves will have already changed, dried up, fallen off, and blown away.

In the meantime, I've got to bring in sales. As always, I'm way, way behind today, and I've got those ten new items to get posted tonight because I ran out of time trying last night, and I need to sell them all. The same holds true for the two cuffs he's currently working on, if they're done before the day is out; if not, it'll probably be tomorrow. Today is chemo day, which means I have a little more energy than normal, but I'm so far behind anymore that it's virtually impossible to leverage [god, I hate that word, but it fits here] that into any real progress. But I have to do it somehow.

Because the pressure from all of these immediate expenses is unrelenting. The truck pretty clearly will not be fixed in time for my medical stuff, because the damn part isn't even in yet, and it's been . . . what? three fucking weeks since we coughed up the first thousand dollars cash? I am not pleased. Add to that that we know it's going to be at least another grand for the labor, probably more; another grand for my own cancer screening scans coming up fast now in August. And it'll be at least $4K to take care of the permanent fix to the roof, materials and labor combined, and that will need to be done in September at the latest. The expenses from last year and the first half of this year broke us so badly that we're still way behind on everything. I have GOT to put a big chunk on our tax bill, which is weighing heavily on me constantly. [You wonder why I don't sleep? Like most of the last week? And last night, again? Apart from pain, that's one BIG reason.] 

Over the next day or so, I'm hoping to get the 4 Warrior Woman pins, the 6 pairs of silver and stone earrings, and the 3 new gemstone-bead pairs of earrings up [actually, the last three are up, just not sent viral on social media]. I had planned to do it last night, but I ran out of time. But there's already lots of new work on the site from just the last couple of weeks: 

• Art Deco Labradorite cuff here; 
• Art Deco purpurite cuff here [already sold]; 
• triangle wire youth bangle here; 
• Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; 
• small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; 
• malachite butterfly/leaf-wing earrings here; 
• Picasso jasper earrings here [very haunted Gothic stones! sold!];
• a big solid silver classic cuff here; 
• anew wristband in shades of moon and night here; 
• new vintage-style naja earrings here; 
• seven new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings and one new pair of inverted naja hoops are up at the very beginning of the Earrings Gallery;
• and another new cuff is also here. 

And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales at a rate of at least two per week for the rest of the year for us to catch up [and that's just breaking even]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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