New work coming tonight [hopefully].

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Hazy this morning. Besides the wildfires in neighboring states, we have three or four to south and west in various stages of containment, plus two new ones in forest land, allegedly ignited by lightning two days ago, across the county line just west of here. At least it's warm, and thus far, the wind is more of a breeze.

Out of order today, because there's new work coming tonight [hopefully]. Wings is scrambling to finish that pendant, and the stone is part of the same parcel as an existing cuff and pair of earrings, so we want to feature them as a trio today, if possible. If not, I'll substitute something else, but look for that tonight.

All scanners on the wishlist have been purchased, so thank you all for that. I expect the last of them to arrive early next week, at which point I'll sort them and rebox them for delivery. Whatever's left over goes to rescues, volunteers, and basically anyone who wants one to help out with our stray-animal crisis.

Please don't forget our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed last Friday, but they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've GOT to bring in some sales this weekend: This week was labs, and those cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over the next few days to make up for all of it. I'm operating on two nights of essentially no sleep, and my pain levels are off the charts, but the bills won't wait.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The latest necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. That other pair of silverwork earrings that appeared here yesterday? I should have those up later today. And of course, the new pendant with the post tonight, I hope [and another siilar, larger pendant this weekend]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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