Except by swearing.

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More from the studio, with the vanishingly small amount of time he got in there today. He was going nonstop until almost 3 PM, but it was all outdoor work. Part of it is this terrible weather [and if I hear one more person describe it as "beautiful," I'm going to scream]. Everything is deadly dry; it's a tinderbox. We should have three feet of snow on the ground by now, and more falling from the sky daily. Then, come the new year, we should get the deep freeze, until the next winter storm a week or so later.

Instead, it's fucking April. The catkins emerged this morning on the aspens on the north side of the house. That shouldn't happen until April; in a bad year, the last week of March. Except they're ALL bad years now, and worse than we could ever have imagined.

Yeah, bah! humbug. I have no holiday spirit. None. It's impossible when it's 50 degrees too warm [not 20, not 30; FIFTY], and when I can get nothing done for us because this has been a second year of ungodly expensive hell, and we have no practical help on the physical stuff that I cannot do anymore. My pain levels are indescribable these days.

Well, except by swearing.

And then there's all the sales stress. We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment cleared, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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