Not a cloud in the sky.

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Not a cloud in the sky. Which is not unusual for fall here; the problem is that it's still 20 degrees too warm, and not real prospects of snow in the extended forecast, either.

It will be cold tonight, though, no question. And folks need resources now, which means that we need some metaphorical clouds to form, and fast.

The new mutual aid group has more than doubled in membership since yesterday, which makes me think that last week's developments have finally made people ready for this kind of communal work. Locals are becoming forcibly unhoused at record rates, and there are six months of winter yet to come. One of the members of our new mutual-aid group has her own outreach effort aimed at unhoused local folks [their numbers growing literally by the day] with pets who need to survive the winter.  Here's that group's Amazon wishlist; go do some good in a world that's otherwise shit by buying some of the items on it that will keep our most vulnerable, people and animals both, alive for another winter. WHAT THEY NEED MOST:  SOCKS, SLEEPING BAG SETS, MYLAR BLANKETS. The most expensive item is 10 sleeping bags for $136; the pup tents are $27 each, and folks NEED those in this weather. The ground becomes pure ice.  The address it goes to will take care of it, so go buy some things for folks who have been less lucky this year; there's stuff at every price point.

And of course, there's more than enough that I need to get done around here. I'm already putting in 12- to 16-hour days every day, 7 days a week, because the work won't wait, and for us, being able to help anyone else starts with us making sales, of course. And as I also said, I'm also redoing what I highlight here. I'm just going to highlight a few items here each day. Today's feature is an all-new pendant, completed only this morning, built around an absolutely dazzlingly beautiful Skystone, here.  It's ultra-high-grade black-web Kingman turquoise that's been in his collection for about 15 years, and it's extraordinary. Only one additional feature here today, also an all-new pendant, with a similarly phenomenal [if not quite so costly] focal stone, azurite in malachite as you've never seen it before:

• "The Bluest Waters," a shield-cut cabochon of electric blues and greens, inverted and suspended from an old and substantial sterlng silver rope chain, here.

There's more on the way very soon; he's got something like four more cuffs, a couple of pendants, several new pairs of earrings, and eventually all the new coils he'll need for holiday inventory. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales weekly for us to catch up on the year and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof next year, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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