They all think they own it.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Little tough guy in the red willows late yesterday, feathers all puffed up and sitting there like he owns the joint.

Of course, they all think they own it: wild birds, including colonizer birds; elk, horses; dogs; chickens; even a stray coyote or perhaps a bear the other night.

More new work coming, possibly as early as this evening; if not, then tomorrow. I'm struggling to keep up, because I'm facing increasing physical limitations entirely apart from the insomnia and resultant fatigue and the usual chronic pain. I'm having difficulty walking, sometimes even standing, and the pain and other problems in my ligaments and long muscles is worsening significantly. There's also the chest pain (mostly pleurisy and costochondritic pain, both common side effects of lupus, but they're scary as hell), and there's also always the lurking fear of organ impairment from this thing. But this is our most expensive month of the year (followed very closely by July, and that's not even counting April, which is tax month, in this). And there are still bills yet to pay to get us out of this month in one piece, never mind the rest of the year, so I have GOT to make some sales this week. I need help.

Five new pieces over the weekend: You can see the new gemstone beadwork set, the next in his Elementals series, here; the really phenomenal big works from Saturday are here. Those other two new pieces I mentioned last Monday night are both up here and here. More hearts are in the works for Valentine's Day including a couple of hook bracelets and a pair of earrings (the photos above is of the elements for one of the hook bracelets, actually, which will have an absolutely stupendous Rosarita heart cab). And we badly need to sell them all.

So, since we have to continue to make sales, links are here, and there's new work up, with more to come this week:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder, but I've added a pitcher and juicer, because our old one crapped out yesterday, and the pitcher that goes with it cracked apart last year; to be fair, we used the hell out of them for years);
• 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 twelve whole months of a new year, plus put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring. And there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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