Smokin'

So we're all just finishing up dinner, our new artist Jim is settling down to his 5:00 appointment, and Nikki says to me, "Do you smell smoke?"

Turns out there was a small fire under the studio's back porch that was mostly dead leaves trapped under the very old wood back there. The fire was producing an enormous amount of smoke for the relatively small area that was burning. It was a windy evening and that's most likely what fanned the flames, as it were.

We would like to say a huge and heartfelt Thank You to the Gettysburg Fire Dept. They responded like lightening and did an amazingly fast and effiecent job in containing the fire and securing our property. Their professionalism is unrivaled.

And the studio is fine. Both Raye and Jim were back tattooing within an hour or so of the fire breaking out; their clients were both good natured in taking all the extra added excitement of getting thier tattoo (for one of them it was her very first tattoo!) in stride. Our thanks to them as well.

It does smell of smoke in the studio and probably will for a few days, but we feel very grateful to have had the incident be as minor as it turned out to be. We appreciate all the well wishes.