Bitterly cold.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

That was sunset last night, with the rise of the Evening Star (otherwise known as Venus). Green skies, even though you can't see the banding in the way the image rendered, beautifully clear, and bitterly cold.

It's not particularly warm today, even though they insist it will hit 52. There's just enough of a breeze to cut to the bone, and Spirit knows I've got more than enough work to do indoors anyway. And I'm way behind on that, made all the more so by the hour-and-a-half-long power outage this morning.

Meanwhile, it appears that Wings will not be able to replace his phone today, or tomorrow, or anytime before Monday at the earliest. He's gone into town to double-check, but according to their voice-mail, they're closed all week for "COVID cleaning." That's a euphemism for too many new cases being traced back to their site in too short a period of time, and so everybody should be quarantining, but in Thanksgiving week? Don't make me laugh. Nobody around here (I'm talking about the colonial population now) can be bothered to do the barest of minimums, which is why cases are spiking dangerously high and we're expected to be out of hospital beds again before Christmas, state-wide.

And when he gets back, he's got more studio work on deadline. Because, yeah, it always comes back to needing to make more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter. And again, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. [And that includes just ordinary orders for the holidays, too.] Yes, I mean NOW. We're dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to continue to make sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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