Precious little green.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

The larger maple, now half-orange. In a couple of days, there'll be precious little green; next week, it'll start turning mostly red. Today, I can't even enjoy it; we got our bivalent boosters yesterday, with the result that I got almost no sleep and now I feel like unadulterated crap.

Speaking of precious little green, expenses are mounting fast. We had one chance to pick up some good-quality grass hay for Miika for the winter (because her laminitis and Cushing's mean that she cannot have alfalfa, and there has been almost no grass hay anywhere in the region for two or three years now, courtesy of the drought). We had bought some bales from Johnny the other day, but this is purer grass and these are the giant bales, the kind that will get her through most, maybe all of the winter. But of course, the price has gone up, because it's all so scarce. He'll be here in a few minutes with the bales, and that's several hundred cash out the the door that I hadn't anticipated, but there's no choice.

So I've got to bring in enough to cover it, and the cost of silver for Wings's work; the need for it just became urgent, and with it having tripled in cost just this year, I don't know how we manage it. So I'm doing my usual juggling act, trying to make everything work with too few resources. We're five days into the more or less official holiday creative season, and the outside world is an absolute shambles, and I'm about to lose a few days to booster reactions, most likely (and am already losing too much of today to a monster migraine and excruciating joint pain, so there's that).

That new and absolutely extraordinary necklace just went up two days ago, here. I also posted five new works by Wings a few nights ago, here, and four remain available (the iolite ring is sold), plus another new cuff Monday, here. They're all amazing, so go look, share, buy if you're in the market. [If I could sell them all? I could get the remaining bills off my desk, and set some aside for the silver he needs, too.] All the other links are here; please, share them too:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priority is first and foremost, the wheelbarrow, then the other ladder);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before late next year at the earliest, and this year's tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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