The crow's a lot better at it.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

I'm the one up there trying to stay upright and balanced in the wind. The crow's a lot better at it than I am, natch. Of course, it helps when you can fly. Some days, I can barely walk.

Even so, the time change has helped me tremendously.  Which is good, because I need all the help I can get right now. this is our busiest time of year, but that's the nature of what we do; from October 1st through year's end, it's 16-hour+ days, seven days a week. No breaks. And because of the shipping mess, we're in crunch time already.

And I still need to continue to make consistent sales to get us through the winter. The guy with the hay had sold it to someone else by the time our funds cleared, but he had more of it over the weekend, and he just delivered it this morning. Wings has already ordered two more of the giant bales, because he'll have them next Monday, and that will be the last that he has for a very long time. So that's going to be another ~$400 that I need to have arranged for then (takes cash only), because we're not going to find this quality anywhere else, certainly not at this price, and with this drought? Maybe not anything at all for the rest of the winter. The two extra giant bales might get us all the way through until spring.

Yes, 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. Wings is working on finishing those pins, so I may have as many as seven later today.

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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