October 20

View of the day-Marilyn returns from her first day back at Staples.

Marilyn was up extra early to get ready to go in to her "winter" job at Staples. She decided to go in and do some extra training to get caught up on all the changes that had taken place over the summer. By doing it now when she had a chance, it would make the return to the sales floor a lot easier with the updates already under her belt.

Al went out to the auction sale just out of town to meet his brother and pick up our accumulated mail that he had brought with him. Unlike Marilyn, he came home only with the mail...no bargains to be found. He came back into town and met Marilyn for lunch after she was finished her "schooling" at 12:30pm. After lunch, Marilyn drove him out to the farm where the tractor had been parked so he could bring it home to put the dozer blade on...it's much easier when there isn't a foot of snow.

Marilyn took the pickup back home and was picked up by one of the members of the theatre group to go 10 miles north to Ebenezer to look for some costumes and props for the upcoming performance in the drama festival. The theatre group has no place to call home in Yorkton, so they rent a room in the school in Ebenezer, which has been turned into a community centre. The room hadn't seen to much cleaning over the course of the summer...things just got chucked in when they were dropped off...the manager of the building came in to see us and told us their had been a "visitor" on the premises last night and some of the rooms had been ransacked a bit. The kitchen had a couple cupboards rifled, the fire extinguishers had all been blown off...the residue was obvious in our room, settled all over the place. She told us the RCMP would be coming to look things over...this comment after we had been rummaging around looking for things and had touched pretty much everything. Nothing was missing from any of the rooms, she figured they tried one of the doors and it was open, so they had to do something with the opportunity...not to creative, thank goodness. After getting what we needed, Marilyn got a ride back into Yorkton to get the car which had been left at Staples.

Al went to the hockey game, and his team lost...again. Marilyn dug out the sewing machines and starting doing some major remodeling of the costumes...time flies when you're concentrating, first it's 9:30...all of a sudden it's 2am, and the blog isn't done.

Well, it is now...