It's Time To Open...with Caution

   This is how our shop looks from across the soon-to-be-paved Doubleday Parking Lot.  A friend of Judy, Rita, took this photo last week.  Abby our weaver has reworked our garden (behind the pile of dirt in the middle of the photo) because it 'suffered' due to the construction.  She moved some of our flowers and added others she brought from home.  Our garden has always been a bright spot in the parking lot and this year won't be any different!  Judy has the shop cleaned up and has asked members to start stocking.  She hopes we can be open by Mother's Day...but it will be by appointment only.  A phone number will be posted on a sign by the shop's door and if someone wants to come in they will have to call it and wait 5 or 10 mins for a shop member to arrive and let them in.  Hopefully, our local customers will understand our cautious procedure and stop by.  
   Jeff was suppose to go to Cooperstown Monday morning for a post-op checkup but when it was suggested to him that it could be done via Zoom or just over the phone, he said 'no'.  Actually, he hung up on the nurse from the cardiologist's office!  So today when we went to Herkimer to see our attending MD (a regularly scheduled appointment) we were told it was going to replace the post-op checkup.  Jeff's Bp and heart were both good.  He had some blood tests done and was congratulated for being smoke-free.  Barring any problems he doesn't have to see anyone for 6 weeks.
   My cousin, Ed, had offered to drive us to Cooperstown for that post-op checkup so tonight I called him and told him it was cancelled but if he still wanted to take a run to C'town one day next week, he could take me to the shop so I could stock.  He agreed and we decided to do it Thurs or Friday...Jeff decided he may even come along when he heard we were planning to stop for lunch either in Cooperstown or along the way.  Now I've got to get my stock ready to go!