Already running late.

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That was yesterday morning's full moon, before it dropped below the northwest horizon. It seemed like a good omen for a trip to Santa Fe, and in fact it mostly was; our only difficulties yesterday were logistical things beyond our control like all the construction, and then of course that terrible accident we passed coming home last night. There's no news anywhere about it, so all we can do is hope and pray that everyone involved is okay, but it was an awful sight.

By the time we got home, the moon was high again and seemed full still; the air was clear and cold, with a thin but bitter wind burning our skin. We still had all our evening chores to do, and it was very, very good to be home and indoors in front of the fires when we were done.

This weekend is going to be a mix of ordinary work and catch-up and a ton of offline work that needs doing around here. Wings is busy with several pieces that will not be offered for sale but have a tight deadline, and I'll be helping him organize those plus some other works in various stages of his creative process.

Which means that I'm already running late and I need to get to it.

Monday will also be one more day of constant running, barely enough time to breathe, but then I'm hoping we settle back into something a little more routine. Yes, this is our busiest time of year, but that's the nature of what we do; from October 1st through year's end, it's 16-hour+ days, seven days a week. No breaks. And because of the shipping mess, we're in crunch time already. For those folks having us hold items, we need to get this wrapped up now because of said shipping mess. Wings has new pieces in the works, too, although at the moment he's tied up with more immediate orders; I expect that some of the new items will be available next week or the week after.

Yes, it always comes back to needing to make more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter. And again, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. [And that includes just ordinary orders for the holidays, too.] Yes, I mean NOW. We're dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to continue to make sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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