All The Babies Have Been Returned To The Nest

[teddy_radiator]

Now I know why I hang out with witches and wizards. They can do the coolest things. I must give a huge thank you to Sylvanawood, for waving her wand and making my lost babies appear. I downloaded all of my dA favs, and now I have them all. All 420 of them!

Thank you, my magical friend. It's great to have all my pretty pictures back where they belong. I am a happy bunny.

The shop is back open, and we have no idea what to expect. Hopefully the cabin fever will bring out people, but the roads still have a lot of black ice, so it's in the lap of the gods.

Customers are arriving. That's good! Have a good one.

Comments

[majorjune.livejournal.com]

Hooray on getting your babies back!

Hopefully the cabin fever will bring out people, but the roads still have a lot of black ice, so it's in the lap of the gods.

Lucky all you have to deal with is black ice...yesterday's storm dumped 30 inches of snow on top of the two feet of accumulated snow we already have. I'm only 5'3", the snow's up to my bust, and unless the farmers across the street come to shovel me out (an iffy proposition), it's going to take me days to do it myself... :-(

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow! Here in the South we'd just starve to death if that happens. We are totally unable to manage snow. We just never have it enough to learn. I hope you can did out soon!

[majorjune.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow! Here in the South we'd just starve to death if that happens.

Well child-of-the-Depression that she was, my mother's Credo For Living was "food in the pantry is like money in the bank"...so especially come Fall, I stock up on canned and dried goods, especially dried milk, biscuit mix, tuna fish and other canned meats/chicken, jam/jelly, peanut butter, LOADS of pasta/rice/noodles and jars of sauces and gravies. The Bill of Fare may get boring after a couple of days, but no starvation.

And ever since The Big Blizzard of 1978, which resulted in the governor banning all "non-essential" motor vehicle traffic for 3 days, people here in Connecticut panic and flock to the grocery stores if even just a few inches are forecast (because we had been told in 1978 that only a few inches were expected, and then we got Snow Explosion)...so everyone stocks up with anything and everything they need, or think they will ever need in the next couple of years! LOL

Milk, bread, disposable diapers, and all manner of snack foods seem to be the main panic-buy items...

Me, my dash to the market on Tuesday was for seltzer (I dehydrate easily and go thru a bottle a day), and toilet tissue! I have enough other stuff to tide me over for a couple of weeks.

I hope you can did out soon!

As luck would have it, one of the farmers from across the street soon came with his industrial-sized snowblower and cleared my driveway, albeit dusting the walkway I'd previously hand shoveled with snow...couldn't be helped, we had a stiff breeze today, so the snow that was blown from the blower was in turn blown by the wind. But I'd much rather deal with getting out and just having to clear a half inch to an inch of snow than having to dig 2.5 feet of the stuff!

And he even managed to knock off the snow that had accumulated (actually fallen off the roof) onto my satellite dish so I could get a signal again, so everything's good! :-)

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I feel much better. I had forgotten some of them, so it gave me an appreciation of them all over again.

We didn't have too bad a day today. A good friend (who is independently wealthy and a nice guy) stopped by today to order a carryout lunch and paid by credit card. I was busy bustling around when he signed it and just popped it in the register. This evening when I was cashing out and took out my CC slips to enter the tips, he had put a $50.00 tip on top of an $11.00 lunch. We have some amazing friends.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweetie. I hope so, too. It's a lovely shop, and yes, we do have wonderful, generous friends who believe in us and what we do. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Yay! for recovering your pictures!

What does your shop sell?

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

We are a Tea Room, so in addition to doing lunches and desserts, we also brew and sell tea, tea accessories and some books. I have published a cookbook which has done modestly well just selling in the shop.

The Hubs and I had a chance to study about tea in London with a lady named Jane Pettigrew, and we do tea tasting sessions, afternoon teas, scones, etc.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

That sounds lovely. I do hope business picks up.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dick. We do, too. If good wishes could do it, we'd be rich. Well, we already are in friendships.

[bonsaibetz.livejournal.com]

People will come out, if anything to get together and commiserate about how awful the weather has been and to share their own tribulations and give an empathic nod and pat on the hand when others complain.

Maybe you can do a Red Cross ( or some other non-profit) fund raiser, or donate 10% of all receipts (if you can afford it) on a particular day for the people in Australia suffering from the floods. Though you all have been suffering in your own way with snow and ice, it's a good way to remind people it could be worse and to count their blessings.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! The Hub's sister lives in Canberra, and many of our customers met her when she came to visit a couple of years ago. That could be a great angle.

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

OMG! That is awesome! I'm so glad you were able to get them all back! 420 is a tough number of faves to try to recover! That would be a job in itself! I hope that they are all safely tucked away in your personal computer files and cooing away happily!

And hooray for Sylvanawood for helping you save them! I couldn't even get them to show themselves when I tried. I bow to your kung fu, Sylvanawood!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I downloaded like mad for a couple of hours!! They are all safely tucked away, and I'm even going to send them to an external drive for additional safekeeping.

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

Oooh-aaah, hah, kung-fu!
And again you made my back hurt, ouch. ;)
I get very mad at things like these DA actions and then I look for solutions. Sometimes it works.

[andyissadangel.livejournal.com]

All praise sylvanawood for her 'kung fu'! I'm glad that you were able to get all your faves back.

And for that guy! There are still good people in the world!
- BlueRavenAngel

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I know. Now that my babies are back, dA is a distant, faded memory. Yes, we have a lot of people rooting for us. We're starting to think it may be too little, too late, but it is good to know that people cared.