Such a waste of a perfectly good storm.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

So many gloriously dark and menacing clouds this afternoon, so much trickster wind . . . and only a little snow on the one or two of the peaks. Of course, we weren't supposed to get even that, but it seems like such a waste of a perfectly good storm.

It's bitterly cold, though, courtesy of that wind. It kicked up shortly after sunrise [when the skies were completely clear, BTW], blew in the clouds, made the wind chill miserable for anyone out in it, and then blew out past the eastern ridgeline at sunset. 

Which I guess makes it a good thing that the new mutual aid group got almost 40 new members today alone. 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 consists of two photos linked by one all-new work of wearable art, a pair of earrings whose gallery entry is here.  They're ribbon turquoise [and now spoken for already!], and we have a few other works of that material, although the colors in today's pair are unique. The others are here:

• "Where the Rivers Meet," sterling silver more earrings, in sterling silver and ribbon turquoise, likely Kingman, here; 
• "Wild Rivers," sterling silver earrings set with ribbon turquoise, again, likely Kingman, that manifests in a very different pattern, here; and
• "Where the Eagles Gather," a ring with boulder [ribbon turquoise], also likely Kingman but patchier, set atop a fabulous old-school band, 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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