Leon also forwarded this from Iris.
Because my dog, Miss Jane Barkle, ate the couch and chair cushions, I had to recover them both. I accomplished this with my handy-dandy staple gun and my Singer Quantum Stylist 9960. I expected to need to use one of my old iron machines to get through the upholstery fabric, but the weight wasn't a problem and the modern computerized machine had no trouble making piping or sewing multiple layers of fabric together.
In Closing
At the end of our meeting, as we were ready to leave and pay, we saw something we hadn't seen before. It was a portable credit card checkout device given us by our server. They had several of them. They apparently connect by WiFi to the restaurant's system so that the credit card doesn't changes hands. Couldn't resist taking a picture of it.
We will meet again next month, as usual. We will post the notes of that meeting here.