Some fresh new hell.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Not a good shot compositionally, but scroll down; look at yesterday's. Today, you can actually see: mountains, sky, light. No more of that dirt-pall nonsense.

Not as windy today, for one; also substantially warmer by day's end. Not a huge differential in terms of degrees, but the milder winds made all the difference. Still congested and asthmatic from yesterday, though, even though I wore a mask when I went outside. But that's lupus airway/lung damage for you.

Of course, every day brings some fresh new hell, health-related or otherwise. Today, it was waking up with an allergic reaction: hives, when I haven't ingested anything that usually causes them [fresh tomatoes or one of three different medications], so now I need to figure out what the new allergy is, and I have no idea. It was also waking up to find that the lock had broken off in the side door, and the fridge was not cooling. The first is in process; the second I'm troubleshooting now.

And I don't have time for any of it, for the love of all that's holy. This week has me slammed on so many fronts I can't even think straight. And still, I have to find time to chase sales, because if I don't bring those in, nothing else gets done, either.

And if I could just make several sales [because we're about six weeks behind where we need to be on the year, already], I'd feel a hell of a lot better about everything.I have another cuff to post, hopefully tonight, and the new heart necklace, as well. Both are set with turquoise, both fabulous.  And I've begun reorganizing the site galleries so that the newer work appears first, but it's slow going, mostly because I can't get any uninterrupted time to concentrate on it The last five months have been this way, nonstop, and I'm still not caught up on housework, taxes, OR sales. Which is not good, because we still have to bring in sales weekly to break even. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because 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 get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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