We'll take this and be grateful for it.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

We did get a little snow on the peaks yesterday, once the clouds finally cleared to show us. Also a visit from the ghost hawk (that's the giant ferruginous in winter plumage, which has white bands on wings and tail).

No snow or rain down here, but we'll take this and be grateful for it.

Any family trying to call: Wings dropped his phone yesterday, and it broke. People can call, and he can hear the phone ring and hear the alerts, but it won't let him answer, the screen is shot, and he can't see texts or alerts, either. So back down to Choice in the morning to replace it, and that won't be cheap.

For now, the bird is in the oven, stuffing and cornbread are done. In a bit, I'll do the pie crust, although I suspect it might be pumpkin tartlets instead of pies this year; we'll see how my energy levels are. Then it's prepping vegetables and potatoes for later. If you want to know why we do a nice meal when we don't "celebrate Thanksgiving," it's in today's post on his site. 

And he's hard at work in the studio.

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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