Rockin' again.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Hopefully coming yet tonight, as well as those opal glass earrings. He's got the bead strand done; he just has to add the findings. Now that the belt is fof his workbench, he's rockin' again.

Hopefully I will be, too, for June. That depends on it being a better month than May has been, but that's a ridiculously low bar. I'm so far behind on literally everything, and we have such a need for sales now; I need to be able to devote more time to all of it. The pain is not helping, nor is the way it's impairing basic functions, like, say, walking. Yesterday was chemo day, so I might get a couple of days' respite now . . . or not. It's not working as well as it was, which probably means I need a higher dose, but that makes me feel like crap, too, so . . . ::shrug:: I can't win.

Please also don't forget our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed last Friday, but they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've GOT to bring in some sales this weekend: This week was labs, and those cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over the next few days to make up for all of it. I'm operating on two nights of essentially no sleep, and my pain levels are off the charts, but the bills won't wait.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. He has a brand-new necklace in this new informal series, completed only yesterday, that's up here; the necklace and new cuff from the other day are both up now, here and here. There are also two new pairs of earrings [one featured today], which are here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

The Sky Hosts the Dance of Storm and Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of works from the same category, wrought in the same old-school style, honoring the light that holds the sky and the skydancers who travel along it. It's two pairs of earrings, each simultaneously both newer and older than the other, reminders that the sky hosts the dance of storm and light, and our world is better for it.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.  

Friday Feature: Medicine From a Sacred Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a trio of works that includes an all-new necklace, completed only today, and a cuff and pair of earrings built around Skystones from the same parcel. It's an informal collection that embodies medicine from a sacred sky: water, light, breath, life.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.  

New work coming tonight [hopefully].

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Hazy this morning. Besides the wildfires in neighboring states, we have three or four to south and west in various stages of containment, plus two new ones in forest land, allegedly ignited by lightning two days ago, across the county line just west of here. At least it's warm, and thus far, the wind is more of a breeze.

Out of order today, because there's new work coming tonight [hopefully]. Wings is scrambling to finish that pendant, and the stone is part of the same parcel as an existing cuff and pair of earrings, so we want to feature them as a trio today, if possible. If not, I'll substitute something else, but look for that tonight.

All scanners on the wishlist have been purchased, so thank you all for that. I expect the last of them to arrive early next week, at which point I'll sort them and rebox them for delivery. Whatever's left over goes to rescues, volunteers, and basically anyone who wants one to help out with our stray-animal crisis.

Please don't forget our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed last Friday, but they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've GOT to bring in some sales this weekend: This week was labs, and those cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over the next few days to make up for all of it. I'm operating on two nights of essentially no sleep, and my pain levels are off the charts, but the bills won't wait.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The latest necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. That other pair of silverwork earrings that appeared here yesterday? I should have those up later today. And of course, the new pendant with the post tonight, I hope [and another siilar, larger pendant this weekend]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

Wings's latest.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

New work! Wings's latest. The necklace [Cripple Creek turquoise] will be coming tomorrow.

No, these are not on the site yet; I only just downloaded the photo.  These will be a little pricier than some of his other small ones; the cabochons are not opal stone, but opal glass: rare vintage Japanese opalescent glass, to be exact. These are phenomenal.  The render brighter orange here because of the flash; they're actually very like ultra-high-grade milk opals in terms of color, with a translucent white top surface in most light, with that brilliant orange, plus periwinkle and other colors showing through. [Opal's my birthstone, so I'm naturally partial to these, but these are exceptionally fiery and colorful.]

Otherwise, it's been a very rough day, nearing the end of a very rough week. I didn't get to sleep until sometime between 5 and 6 AM this morning, and I had to be up not that long afterward. The pain has got me in a deathgrip, and it's not letting go, and if the pain meds don't work, there's nothing I can do.

So here we are. But it's also making me very tired of everybody's bullshit, and believe me, there's been plenty of that around lately.

Speaking of one such example, the scanner project:  We only need ONE MORE, the $20 one. Details below. [I also desperately need to make some sales for us, so maybe share everything at the bottom, too?] 

First things first:  We only need 6 more of the $56 pet-chip scanners and only 5 2 ONE more of the $20 ones to close this little project out! All the details are below. I'm even madder than I was yesterday, but that's not my story to tell. But we can force them to do their jobs, or answer to the public why they refuse, by taking away their excuse.  Getting this last 11 8 scanners off the wishlist will do that. The story is below, along with another thing that needs attention still. And I do need to make some sales this week, too.

That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Yes, that's exactly what they did, and now the dog has a head wound. Some kind person managed to corral it, and Jen has gone out there to try to take care of it, figure out what's needed, scan it to try to ID its people, find a suitable placement if there's no chip. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We still need 7 of those at the ~$56 price, and another 9 of those at the $20 price. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus 3 and 16 respectively of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department/shelter/rescues/ volunteers.  If they refuse them, we'll give all of them to Stray Hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

Second is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: This week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for all of it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The new necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. Tomorrow will be one, possibly two more necklaces in similar style, plus a very different pair of earrings. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

#ThrowbackThursday: What the Sky Teaches Us

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back only to the end of last month, and a very special piece that holds an important place in our hearts. It's a work wrought for an anonymous recipient, a birthday gift for a local young person, a perfect example of what the sky teaches us about our obligations to share in the abundance that always surrounds us.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, this work will never be duplicated, but if the style speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.        

Just wait and see.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's been a day.

More monsoonal-pattern squalls on all sides this afternoon, but not a single drop of rain here. At least the green is spreading at higher elevations now. Of course, the snow is pretty much gone already. 

Labs this morning; I'll probably have to wait until next week to find out what they show, if anything. Even if there is something there, there's no guarantee that it'll show in the bloodwork, but it's the first step. The basic plan just wait and see.

We also picked up Wings's last scrip; animal feed; and NINE BOXES OF SCANNERS at the post office. We need only 8 more!  Details below:

First things first:  We only need 6 more of the $56 pet-chip scanners and only 5 2 more of the $20 ones to close this little project out! All the details are below. I'm even madder than I was yesterday, but that's not my story to tell. But we can force them to do their jobs, or answer to the public why they refuse, by taking away their excuse.  Getting those last 11 8 scanners off the wishlist will do that. The story is below, along with another thing that needs attention still. And I do need to make some sales this week, too.

That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Yes, that's exactly what they did, and now the dog has a head wound. Some kind person managed to corral it, and Jen has gone out there to try to take care of it, figure out what's needed, scan it to try to ID its people, find a suitable placement if there's no chip. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We still need 7 of those at the ~$56 price, and another 9 of those at the $20 price. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus 3 and 16 respectively of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department/shelter/rescues/ volunteers.  If they refuse them, we'll give all of them to Stray Hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

Second is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: This week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for all of it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The new necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. Tomorrow will be one, possibly two more necklaces in similar style, plus a very different pair of earrings. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

Of Sky and Earth and Summer's Medicine

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork wrought in vintage style, old-school silverwork framing a spectacular Skystone that embodies Creator's gift. In truth, it's a wearable manifestation of a whole collection of such gifts, of sky and earth and summer's medicine, in stunning electric sky blue and silver.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.  

SO many things lined up.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Next work in progress. He's got SO many things lined up on his workbench now. This one will probably be done tomorrow, along with a new pair of earrings, maybe two.

The belt is with its wearer. One good thing out of an incredibly difficult day. No time to do anything; everything's late. I have at least sixty things on my to-do list for today [literally; I'm not embellishing], and if I'm lucky, I might get to twenty-five of them, maybe thirty is I really haul through everything tonight.

First things first:  We only need 6 more of the $56 pet-chip scanners and only 5 more of the $20 ones to close this little project out. All the details are below. I'm even madder than I was yesterday, but that's not my story to tell. But we can force them to do their jobs, or answer to the public why they refuse, by taking away their excuse.  Getting those last 11 scanners off the wishlist will do that. The story is below, along with another thing that needs attention still. And I do need to make some sales this week, too.

That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Yes, that's exactly what they did, and now the dog has a head wound. Some kind person managed to corral it, and Jen has gone out there to try to take care of it, figure out what's needed, scan it to try to ID its people, find a suitable placement if there's no chip. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We still need 7 of those at the ~$56 price, and another 9 of those at the $20 price. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus 3 and 16 respectively of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department/shelter/rescues/ volunteers.  If they refuse them, we'll give all of them to Stray Hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

Second is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: This week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for all of it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The new necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

Red Willow Spirit: To Scrape the Sky and Release the Rain

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the first early days of summer, an homage to patterns no longer with us and a hope for their reclamation. It's two related images linked by a single all-new work of wearable art, all of them testament to the power granted the summer clouds to scrape the sky and release the rain.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.         

Early and dangerous.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

This is what has now moved directly overhead. If I suddenly disappear, you'll know why.

There's not much rain in it for us, at least not so far. The mountains seem to be getting a decent amount. What this turns into when it moves eastward is going to be another matter entirely.

The weather this year is early and dangerous.

That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Yes, that's exactly what they did, and now the dog has a head wound. Some kind person managed to corral it, and Jen has gone out there to try to take care of it, figure out what's needed, scan it to try to ID its people, find a suitable placement if there's no chip. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We still need 7 of those at the ~$56 price, and another 9 of those at the $20 price. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus 3 and 16 respectively of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department/shelter/rescues/ volunteers.  If they refuse them, we'll give all of them to Stray Hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

Second is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: This week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips at the end of last week, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for all of it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. The new necklace and new cuff are both up now, here and here. I'm hoping for more of his new bead-earring series over the days to come, although between everything else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain, no guarantees that *I'll* get them up as soon as they're done. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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: It Is a Hot Turquoise Sky That Births the Storm

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a day of extremes of weather in a world already badly wounded by what it claims to honor. It's an image that dates back twelve years, perhaps to the very day, one to remind us that it is a hot turquoise sky that births the storm, a lesson we need to put into practice ourselves now.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.        

All the usual issues continue apace.

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The buckle to the famous [infamous?] belt. It's almost done; a few more butterfly spacer conchas needed, and then he can string it. It'll be a relief for him to have it off his workbench after all these weeks [months, actually]. If you're wondering what the stone is, it's not a stone at all; it's quahog shell, otherwise known as wampum. The recipient's traditional name has to do with plum blossoms, and also with snow, and so I went looking for cabs that would somehow fit, and I found these: actual blossoms that are purple on one side and white on the other. It's one of a kind, and it's going to be absolutely phenomenal.

Meanwhile, all the usual issues continue apace. That dog that APD took to the shelter because AC wouldn't? Apparently, from reports, it seems as though AC picked it up, then dumped it off in the exact same spot where it was found. Which leads to the next thing:

First, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident Friday. A woman found a badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We have 9 still on there at ~$56 each, and another 24 remaining at $20 each. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased, plus one each of the other two types.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department.  If they refuse them, we'll give them to Stray hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

Second is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least locally. She updated her GFM this morning with the news that they are sending her to the Mayo Clinic, where there are surgeons who specialize in this kind of surgery. That means that she will be incurring significant travel and other costs, and she will also likely need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: Next week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips over the last two days, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. Still going to try to get the new piece up and published on the site tonight. He has a new cuff that's almost complete, too; if it's done yet today, I'll try to get it up tonight as well. No promises, between everythig else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain [today's chemo day, so maybe I'll feel better tomorrow . . . or maybe not]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

The Flowering Medicine of the Summer Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all new masterwork wrought in an old traditional style, entirely freehand and set with an extraordinary stone, in a tribute to our local radiant sky. It's a necklace whose pendant combines new petals with rays of light, an embodiment of the flowering medicine of the summer sky, and its gifts of abundance.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.  

Two things.

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That's what I meant elsewhere today about the new green at higher elevations. It's lovely. The lack of any remaining snow, notsomuch; we should still have some clearly visible well into June. We are supposed to get rain starting late Monday, though, so that's something, at least.

Two things:  First is our great-niece, who is battling an aggressive cancer [you know Camille, Roy's oldest girl? this is her stepdaughter]. Marcy was supposed to have the cancerous kidney removed yesterday, and they got in there and found out they couldn't do it. It's inoperable, at least as it stands now. That means that she will need increasingly aggressive interventions in terms of chemo/immunotherapies [and possibly radiation], and those immunotherapies are hideously expensive. I expect that they will need to increase the goal on her GFM, and she will certainly need plenty of new donations to it, regardless. If you have a few bucks to spare, please do, and please at least share it with your networks. She's young, with a family, and she was already at Stage 4 when they first caught it ~6 months ago. You can donate here.

Second, it's two items [in large numbers] added to our wishlist to prevent a recurrence of a local incident yesterday. A woman found an badly emaciated dog dragging a leash, hiding from the heat, no water available. She was on her way out of town and didn't have her microchip scanner with her, so she called Animal Control, who informed her, "oh, we don't do that," and also "we don't have any scanners anyway." It's not the officer's fault; it's TCSO, under whose purview AC falls. So, I'm calling their bluff. I've added a bunch of microchip scanners to our wishlist. [I've altered the remaining models to conform with what Jen tells me will work even on the OLD chips]. We have ten on there at ~$56 each, and another 35 remaining at $20 each. [Ten of the newer model are already purchased.] That will be enough to give every sheriff and deputy and AC officer one, plus some for the fire department.  If they refuse them, we'll give them to Stray hearts, the rescues, and volunteers [but not before letting the whole world know that they refused free equipment for the job they're statutorily mandated to do]. So if you have a spare a $20 [or $56]?  Please consider buying one, here. Top two items; ignore the rest. And maybe we can get some of these runaway and/or stolen dogs reunited with their humans.

And then, of course, it's all the rest of it. I've got to bring in some sales this weekend: Next week is labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips over the last two days, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. Still going to try to get the new piece up and published on the site tonight. He has a new cuff that's almost complete, too; if it's done yet today, I'll try to get it up tonight as well. No promises, between everythig else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain [today's chemo day, so maybe I'll feel better tomorrow . . . or maybe not]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.                

Life, Defiant and Persistent

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork for space and season, place and time, for sacred directions, sacred earth, and their need for our stewardship now. It's a big, bold, traditional necklace wrought in the old way, with layer after layer of silverwork and a truly spectacular old stone, all of them emblematic of life, defiant and persistent.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

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.  

Summer finally feels possible.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

The green is more clearly visible at the higher elevations now. The last two days have been absolutely beautiful. Summer finally feels possible.

Of course, if we do get the rains forecast for next week, it will cool it down significantly. But we need the precipitation, too.

Good to be back home earlier today. Picked up all the scrips but one [a new one for Wings], which was apparently still on the truck somewhere between them and their warehouse. We won't be able to get it until Tuesday [they're closed every weekend because corporate won't pay for proper staffing, and closed for Monday's holiday], but at least it's on the way. Next week is also labs, and those are gonna cost, plus we've had the two doctor's appointments and all the scrips, so I need to bring in a few hundred in sales over this long weekend to make up for it.

In the meantime, all the work still has to get done. Still going to try to get the new piece up and published on the site tonight. He has a new cuff that's almost complete, too; if it's done yet today, I'll try to get it up tonight as well. No promises, between everythig else that has to get done and the lack of any respite from pain [today's chemo day, so maybe I'll feel better tomorrow . . . or maybe not]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, 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.