Nope.

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The next one in the pipeline. All he needs to do is set the stone, which is seraphinite, and buff it, and it'll be available for sale.

Today, we were both so beat that we decided to move today's planned tasks to tomorrow . . . thinking that that would give us a little breathing room today. Nope. We have both been running all day, and in my case, falling farther and farther behind. The next two days, at the very least, will be more of the same.

Today was also extremely hot, no chance of rain, and just . . . hot. Uncomfortably so. The kind that keeps my brain from working properly. Like yesterday, remembering that it was 7 years ago late yesterday afternoon that we were forced to say goodbye to Shade [at that point leaving Miskwaki alone and in mourning, hence the need to take in Miika; now my boy is gone, too], but not remembering to point it out. I'm so tired, and there's nothing I can do about it.

The mutual-aid group seems, at just shy of nine months, to be reaching a kind of critical mass finally, which is great. The problem is that there is so much that goes into pushing people's fundraising needs, and so that's added to my workload in a big way lately. And after a very long dry spell, we're getting a bunch of commission inquiries all at once, which is also great, but all the back-end prep work falls to me.  if I were to do everything I need to do just today alone, I wouldn't get any sleep before Sunday.

And then there's the well mess. We have a call in to the drilling company, but no response yet, so I don't know whether the tank is in yet or not. I hope it's in by Friday, at least; the new pressure-pump assembly began burning out after something like three days [so the old tank must be completely shot], and that's only getting worse, and I would really, really like to get that taken care of before we lose water again. Of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, are 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                     

A World In Bloom By the Sun's Fire and Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all new trio of works, created together but offered separately — a celestial fire of sunsparks and atmospheric flames. It's one necklace and two pairs of coordinating earrings, all built around the sunny shades of. natural spiny oyster shell and manifest as that daily gift of our nearest star, a world in bloom by the sun's fire and light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have had huge expenses looming over us, including the replacement of our well tank this week, with luck. We need to bring in consistent sales each and every week to cover it all.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.       

Red Willow Spirit: Painting the Earth With Fire

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the brilliant flames of the summer season, the kind that deliver no destruction, only beauty and medicine. It's three images from nearly two decades past, linked by two current and patly matched works of wearable art, all of them tributes to the power and beauty of Indian paintbrush its practice of painting the earth with fire.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have had huge expenses looming over us, including the replacement of our well tank in hopefully yet this week. We need to bring in consistent sales each and every week to cover it all.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.   

Out of order it is.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Clouds gathering, but a lot less chance of any rain today.

And I am having a day [and not in a good way], so everything is out of order. Yesterday was overloaded; today's worse, if that's possible. And then tomorrow will be more of the same, probably Thursday, too.

I need more hours in the day. Why is that too much to ask?

::Sigh:: anyway. The big boulder of stress that's sitting on my chest is not going to budge if I don't get some of this off my desk immediately, so out of order it is. 

We have a call in to the drilling company, but no response yet, so I don't know whether the tank is in yet or not. I hope it's in by tomorrow or Thursday, at least; the new pressure-pump assembly began burning out after something like three days [so the old tank must be completely shot], and that's only getting worse, and I would really, really like to get that taken care of before we lose water again. Of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, are 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                    

Nonstop, all day.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Bright and clear and hot this morning, barely a cloud in the sky, and then by afternoon, it looked like that. A few scattered showers, and two relatively short but steady episodes of real rain, so we're good.

Of course, we got caught in it, natch.

It's been a week, and it's only Monday. Okay, a day, but man . . . .  We both had to be up early because there were things we needed to do before the chimney service guys got here a little before nine. We have two clean flues for another year now. But ever since, it's just been nonstop, all day. I'm finally sitting down to, you know, my work — in the evening. Again. 

Tomorrow is going to be more of the same, and so is Wednesday, it appears. My bigger concern is that Thursday and Friday will wind up being like this, too, and if that happens, I'll be useless by the weekend, because I'll have pushed myself way beyond what my body will handle anymore. Because I still don't know when the well tank will be here, and whenever it arrives and they can come out, everything else has to get rearranged, canceled, postponed, whatever, so we can deal with that.

I hope it's in by mid-week, at least; the new assembly began burning out after something like three days, so the old tank must be completely shot, and I would really, really like to get that taken care of before we lose water again. Of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, are 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                    

Monday Photo Meditation: A Fiery Flowering Land

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a world finally ready to get down to the business of summer. It's a remembrance of what this place at this season once was combined with the hope that it could be again, a fiery flowering land of petaled flames dancing in the rain.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have had huge expenses looming over us, including the replacement of our well tank hopefully this week. We need to bring in consistent sales each and every week to cover it all.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.    

And it's only Sunday.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; al rights reserved.

That's what was haded our way just a little while ago. It's since moved overhead, continued on to ricochet around the peaks, been blown back to deliver a few scattered drops, and is moving out again.

It feels like a metaphor for my life right now. Good god, I'm tired. And it's only Sunday.

The week to come is going to be a monster.  Chimney cleaners first thing tomorrow, and they're going to have to do a repair to one of the stoves. All that bureaucratic stuff I thought we'd be doing a week ago? There's still all that to be done now. And presumably the well tank will be in, and we'll have to get them out here to dig. Which likely means a day or two without running water again. In the meantime, there's another wrinkle that I'm not even going to go into; the idea is help for Wings with stuff I can't do anymore, but . . . we'll see. This week is already completely overloaded, every single day; this doesn't feel like a time to start yet another thing.

Especially with this well nonsense still looming. I hope the new tank is in by mid-week, at the very least; the new assembly began burning out after something like three days, so the old tank must be completely shot, and I would really, really like to get that taken care of before we lose water again. Of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, are 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.