What brought us the cold today.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Last night's impossibly clear skies are what brought us the cold today. [Seriously, you need to click on the image to bring it up in full size; there are a lot more than just the one star visible.] The cold is welcome, and so are the clouds that have moved in to supplant the morning's heavy smoke, kept by the inversion layer from blowing out.

This morning required a bunch of errands, so everything's late. Along with one of them came notice of some bureaucratic bullshit [not for me, for Wings this time, but I'm the one who'll have to deal with it] that I need to handle before Wednesday, so my time just got a whole lot more compressed and I am distinctly unhappy about that.

Because even apart from that the work just keeps piling up. So do the expenses. I'm currently waiting for delivery of the other beads and cabs that Wings needs for his next set, and for several other things in the pipeline. And all of that means that I need to bring in enough to cover all that outlay, because the supplies don't come cheap.

Yeah, it always comes back to that: 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);
• 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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