God is good!

Our unit went out last year so for$6,000 we are cool as long as we don’t stay out in this heat. Yesterday at my quilting group we had to call an ambulance for one of our friends. She is a cancer patient and she said earlier yesterday that she was so hot, even though I found it was a little chilly in the church’s AC. About an hour later, I happened to notice that she had one arm over the side of the triple stainless steel sinks in the kitchen, hanging on to try to keep from falling. We sew in the dining area and have use of the open kitchen area, too. I starting hurrying to her but with my bad back I couldn’t hold her or lie her down by myself. I started shouting for help. It didn’t take one our ladies long and together we eased her to the floor. The ambulance and her son was called to transport her to the hospital. Son called me last night. She was feeling better after some IV fluids.
On another note. The day before when I was serging the outer edges of my yellow quilt before binding, when I was on the last side and all of a sudden my machine just sounded like when a belt broke. You could hear the motor when you pressed the pedal but the needles wouldn’t move and when I turned the hand wheel it wasn’t tight so I assumed the belt broke. I finished edge stitching with my regular machine on zigzag before binding my quilt.
After coming home and telling my husband of our sewing day emergency hubby got a call from our bus driver daughter. School was starting today and her bus wouldn’t start. Her husband was working late so that meant daddy had to come.
While he was gone I thought about my serger. I had just cut out a project for the next bus gifts, when our friend collapsed at quilting. I had to make it all with my regular machine when I got home bc serger wasn’t working.
Hubby wasn’t gone long, got her school bus going and so when he got back started to see about my serger. We weren’t sure how to get into it but after unscrewing bottom and back, we saw the belt was NOT broken. After giving it a good cleaning with the vacuuming and a small brush, he searched around and couldn’t see anything wrong. 🤔 umm
So after putting the covers and bottom back on he said, ‘where is the screw that goes in the end of the hand wheel?’ I said I didn’t know if it had one. He insisted it did but I told him, as I had watched him work on it, that he hadn’t unscrewed anything there. So…
I went in my sewing room and on the table where the serger sits was a large silver funny looking screw. It must have rolled when it came off because it wasn’t where my serger sat, just nearby.
He screwed it in, I plugged it up and wa-la my serging is serging again! I’m back in business!-lol
If you look in first picture that shows the belt not broken 🙄, the hand wheel screw is missing. That side of machine was facing me when I let him take it all apart. He might have caught it had he been looking on that side, but as he was looking for screws that held the plastic covers on, it didn’t have any on that side.
I’m the first to admit I’m not mechanically inclined and as you can see, he didn’t kill me-lol- I repeat, God is good!