Real weather.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

At long last, real snow.

It started about 2 AM, a light shower but large flakes, so by 2:30 it had dusted every surface. By dawn, it was still just a dusting, some of it already melting, and then, miraculously, it somehow cranked itself up into real weather.

They've upped the forecast to 9" by Friday; so far, we're between 2" and 3" here. It mostly doesn't look like that, because the ground was so warm that it still looks sparse, but when you measure it on flat surfaces that are out of the wind, you can see that it's more than it at first appears.

Whatever, it's one good thing out of this god-awful day, and we're grateful for it. For the rest, we, the two of us, have been sounding the alarm literally for decades, with much more pointed warnings over the last five years, and no one listens, so here we are, all of it utterly predictable.

And, as always, there's work to do. A lot of it. More than ever, because no one in authority or control is going to do it. Today's local mutual aid group focus is devoted to pets, and one of our members 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.

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. Today's been rough, though, because an allergic attack late last night [[no, I have no idea what; probably jsut part of the lupus/Sjogren's complex] meant that I woke up this morning with another episode, unable to breathe from everything shutting off my airway. A prednisone dose later, and I can breathe, but my head is splitting, and there's literally nothing that takes away a steroid headache except time. Nothing that takes the edge off my ever-escalating joint/connective-tissue pain lately, either.

But 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 a necklace in gorgeous autumnal shades, shield-like in its power. Here, I'm keeping it short and sweet — one of Wings's newer cuff bracelets that would coordinate with it beautifully:

• "Weaving Snow and Fire," a cuff with a heavy-gauge sterling silver pattern wire band in a woven Deco-infused design, topped with an extraordinary half-moon of snowflake obsidian in a hand-wrought bezel and edged with twisted silver, 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 [a long, elegant ribbon turquoise pair possibly as early as today], 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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