I told you it was a bear.

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all rights reserved.

Wings showed me this yesterday; he found it a few weeks ago, but kept forgetting to tell me. Remember when I said all our bumper crop of pears disappeared off the tree overnight? I told you it was a bear.

I hope the little guy is warm and safe and well-fed somewhere where no trigger-happy colonizers can find him.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is busy sharpening its claws, too. The good news is that, except for a little IM pain at the injection site, Wings doesn't seem to be having any side effects from the booster at all, which likely means that mine was so bad only because I have no immune system now. But I've got to get the eye thing handled before December, and that's going to take a lot more than what we have now. We've been blessed to make a couple of good sales over the last few days, but we're going to need to make so very many more all of this month and next to cover everything. Wings has some new pins in the works right now, Warrior Woman and Pueblo pins both; he also has the holiday reindeer pins and some small pendants and several larger works in the conceptual phases. And if I can get the next round of beads and silver that he needs in any kind of timely fashion? He'll have the next gemstone bead set soon (that would be The Winter Elementals, four sets of three items each again).

And we need people to buy his work. Now. We don't make some steady sales VERY SOON? We don't make it through the end of this year, never mind the rest of the winter or '22. And I'm the one who has to carry the worry about all of this, every minute of every day. Our sales are already way, way down for the year because the colonial governments' pandemic mismanagement has trashed the economy. Also? Time is short, a lot shorter than you realize. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. 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 make some 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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