Everything points to an early winter.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Going gold fast now. Pueblo Peak is, too. It may look like it's only at the top, but that aspen line drops fast, and as cold as the nights are down here, they're well below freezing up there. We'll have plenty of turning leaves before the month is out, and normally, by then it's just really getting started.

Everything points to an early winter, and a hard one, too [which means a good one; for us, "hard" is the kind like last year, 50 degrees too warm in January]. The animals are clearly feeling it; the hummingbirds are mostly gone as of this week, while the winter birds are arriving daily. Each night when I look out the south window before I go to bed, I half-expect to see the elk moving our way. Three months early.

The guys didn't work today, and they won't be back until Tuesday, which gives us sort of a reprieve but not really. One of the guys and his wife are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary this weekend, and Wings made their rings for their celebration, so we'll be in attendance [and we have to pick up some things for it between now and then, too]. Next week, I'm hoping things go a little more easily, but my illness is bedeviling me badly these days, so every day is a crapshoot. Almost no sleep last night, which has meant that today was a nightmare in terms of my ability, or rather, utter lack thereof, to function.

And there's still the problem of sales. With last week having set us back more than $3K, cash, and this week costing us around $1,200, I've got to change this somehow, but I can't even get enough time lately to devote to chasing sales in the first place. And there's more to be done next week, too. That whole "early winter" thing? This has to be done before it gets here. It's been a stupidly expensive year already [on top of last year being the same]. If we could just continue to make regular weekly sales, we'd be fine . . . but we need to make those sales now, and so far, that's not happening. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up, but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference. This kind of stress is also not helping my health. I need that to change now, and fast. And to that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here; 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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