There's more coming!

Don't give up just yet...the blog won't be done without some closure to wind up the year.

Of course, finding the time...

November 3-Paper Bag Wins!

View of the day-Our Archbishop wins best supporting actor!!!

Ray wins best supporting actor and he is a partsman at Yorkton New Holland, so it still has some thing to do with the harvest...

November 2

View of the day-Setting up for the big performance.

Al got help from Mike to load the combine...Marilyn's usual job...and got everything flanged in then prepared to head north. He crossed the border into Canada in the mid-afternoon with nothing of note at the checkpoint. The rest of the story will come on Sundya when we finally get to see each other.

Marilyn was up early for adjudications in the morning and an actor's workshop in the afternoon. The adjudicator made a lot of interesting comments on the play and it seems unfortunate that the play will not be performed again. There are always a lot of improvements from a "professional" set of eyes, we almost wanted to try it again to utilize what we had learned. The evening had another three plays, two hilarious and one very deep...the last one not really Marilyn's cup of tea, but it was well done. Three more tomorrow and then the awards for the festival...don't think we have a sniff, but it's the festival experience that really matters.

More barley taken care of...

November 1

View of the day-The vista out the patio doors of our room outside Kamsack.

Al spent the day getting things organized to move back home, at least we hope so. Marilyn on the other hand got the bus loaded and picked up the five other passengers to go to Kamsack to "tread the boards". Once we got to town, we had the grand tour of the theatre and then got to check into the motel before our rehearsal time.

The theatre is actually a movie theatre that is still in use, but they have added additional stage area to be able to use it for live theatre. We were allowed two hours to familiarize ourselves with the change in venue, then it was back out to the motel to "get in the zone" and wait til performance time. We have found in the past, if the rehearsal sucks, then the performance will be a good one, and except for a couple of minor hiccups, that still held true...it was the best performance of this play we had done to date. The adjudicator was really positive in her remarks, but we will get the rest of the story tomorrow morning when we get a full hour of her comments.

The green room theme was Mexican Fiesta, so after we got back to the hotel to drop the bus off and change, we all got 'dolled up' in our sombreros, ponchos and moustaches and caught the shuttle back into town. After closing down the green room...one has to support small town enterprises, right?...we got back to the hotel...and this is bizarre...high speed internet, but no phones in the rooms. They had to bring a cordless phone down when the stage manager was looking for us. We did manage to make enough noise to wake up Joanne...yes the "blog comments" Joanne, when we got back to the room...she doesn't need to read the blog tomorrow.

Well, now, if harvest is over...do the blogs continue? As long as there is a mention of harvesting, it should count, right?

We were harvesting "barley" tonight...could be more tomorrow...