Having thread and needle ready is always a good idea Rodney. We’ve got a bunch of them. I don’t use them much, but my wife sure does. A modest share of her alterations include hand-sewing. It’s one of the reasons that she usually has a 2-week backlog, especially this month with Prom coming up.
We can’t process credit cards without cell-phone service Tartan, and our cell phones weren’t working after the power had been out for an hour or so. I don’t think that all of the local cell towers were included in the outage, so it must have been over-usage that locked things up. Everyone was probably trying to call someone else to see if they had power.
I’m the same age Kooklabell, and I’ve never been able to talk myself into buying a generator yet either. That surprises some people when they find out that I worked out on the line for power companies for 28 years. Even now that I’m not doing that anymore, I figure I have enough problems dealing with an outage, without having to deal with making a generator run too. When we get an outage that lasts for a long time, we pull all of the quilts out of storage and “mummify” our freezer, then just cool our jets until the power comes back on.
I snuck a pot of coffee on at about 4:30 this morning while the power was back on for a while at the house Cecilia, so I had my morning coffee before going to the shop. I can make coffee at home without power too, when I need to. We don’t have drinks at the shop much anyway. We have a “Please no food or drink in the shop” policy, so it wouldn’t be right for us to have our Sippy-cups setting around when customers can’t. We run a dry shop, I guess you’d say. LOL!
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