Finally up.

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It's finally up. Not decorated; that will come tomorrow. But I manhandled it [girlhandled it?] into the house and into the stand this evening.

Now, if only someone would come and put up our electric farolitos on the deck. I learned the hard way last year that I can't do it anymore. I certainly couldn't do it this year. And I miss them terribly at this time of year, but there's nothing I can do about it, absent a volunteer.

This day has had us both going absolutely nonstop [and I still am; dinner's cooking, and I've got ALL my usual work to get done tonight, because today was taken over with everything else]. Most of today was heavy labor, too; there's literally only one place in the house where the tree can go, which means rearranging the entire living room to make it happen, and that's what I spent the day on. That and packing an order and boxing up a bunch of stuff, and I'm not going to be able to move tomorrow, because every joint system in my body will be on strike.

But there's no time; there's SO MUCH I have yet to get done tomorrow.

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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