At least today was beautiful.

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Bitter cold and beautiful light. It's been that way all day today.

I love the snow [and I'm glad for the cold, even if my joints aren't so much], but the snow shoveling is another thing entirely. I have to do it in pieces, because I can't do much of anything physical for very long at all. I do have most of the deck upstairs done, but I doubt it'll get finished tomorrow, because I've got other stuff already taking up the afternoon, which means the morning will be spent trying to get everything else done as fast as possible.

I'm tired, I'm sore, I've had no real sleep two nights in a row, and I'm beat. But at least today was beautiful.

Now, if I could just bring in some sales tonight . . . . Yes, sales, plural, because we're already behind, but more than that, the nightmare that the last two years have been have left us in a bind, and we've both got medical expenses coming up this week on top of everything else. Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still more than a week in the hole now. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is, and heaven knows I don't have the bandwidth for anything more. Flare, progression, whatever, it doesn't matter. I've got to do something, but damned if I know what at this point. It's grim. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to begin this year on a better footing than the last two.

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