Extra work.

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That was yesterday's job: replacing the wheel on the gate and then hacking away enough of the knot at the base of the old cedar post to make it fit. Extra work, I mean, besides everything else; he had to finish it earlier today. That gate is hardened steel, and it's ridiculously heavy — heavy enough that it's been pulling down on the opposite post where it's bolted in, and so to balance it, he had to add the wheel a long time ago. But gravity's taking its toll, and with the damage to his shoulders (rotator cuff, etc.) and my own joints, it's become too heavy to lift, so he had to replace it with a large enough wheel to rest on the ground. Yes, he tried the chainsaw; it's so hard that it flipped the chain off. That meant breaking out the heavy ax, and I do mean heavy. Sunny, of course, thinks he's helping.

As I said, there's so much work to be done, extra and otherwise, on every front; so much that lies ahead of us these next three months. And Wings needs to be creating more for holiday inventory, but as I've said, he needs to be able to stock up on silver for for that, and with it having tripled in cost just this year, I don't know how we manage it. And we can't do anything at all until I get the quarterly taxes for next year handled, and I'm still a good ways off from that. Meanwhile, he's at work in the studio now, and I'm doing my usual juggling act, trying to make everything work with too few resources.

I posted five new works by Wings three nights ago, here, and four remain available (the iolite ring is sold), plus another new cuff Monday, here. They're all amazing, so go look, share, buy if you're in the market. [If I could sell them all? I could get the taxes off my desk for the rest of the year, and some other stuff, too.] All the other links are here; please, share them too:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priority is first and foremost, the other ladder and the wheelbarrow);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before late next year at the earliest, and this year's tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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