I love the table and chairs. Did you ask the seller if they were the ones who donated them to the thrift store? maybe you reunited them! What good luck that you would find both!
Two totally different parts of the state, plus the two I got at the thrift store store were much better taken care of.
My husband is the most easy going person ever, so he actually wasn't too devastated. I think it upset him though, he doesn't let it show. I will say it's definitely a weird situation. We are visiting his Dad in Florida and it is evident that he didn't do much for himself for the last 40+ years. When we arrived there was almost no food, only 3 yogurts, which my kids quickly consumed and 2/3 of his food was gone. My husband took him grocery shopping last night. Our trip has beeb quite an adventure beside that, the kids are still coming off their croup, I got taken down for a few days with fever and cough, and then about 50 miles from grandpa's house one of my boys threw up, a lot. All over the Lilo and Stitch outfit the other kid had fallen asleep eating a Mickey bar and I was able to get most of the chocolate out. Now, however, that outfit is going into the trash. It's beyond ruined. Poor little guy was covered and we had to stop on the side of the highway and strip him down, but when my husband set him on the ground to get him out of his clothing he got about 2 dozen ant bites, so he has welts all over his feet and ankles.
I guess if we do go back to Ohana, new stitch shirts are in order. My husband was able to get most of the stink out, thankfully, but I think we will still have the car detailed. Yuck.
I'm sorry things have gone bad so far. Maybe somehting really special will happen and make the whole trip worth it all.
I have a brother embroidery machine, but I understand they are made by the same company (?) so perhaps the troubleshooting is the same. When mine does that it is tension, but not necessarily the way the machine sets it, it is more like the thread is caught on something and isn't feeding smoothly, or there is something caught in the thread path like a little snarl or some dust or something. I would re-wind the bobbin and re-thread everything, clean out any dust out of the bobbin area or thread path.
I dropped my PE770 off for routine maintenance last week and the lady told me never pull the thread out backward through the thread path, which of course I ALWAYS do, she said to snip it at the spool, then pull the thread through from the needle end, it prevents those thread fiber buildups in the thread path. I had never heard that and I was doing it the "wrong" way every single time, so I thought maybe someone else was too.
Jen