View of the day-Al gets some cutting in on some green grass.
It’s a slippery slope when the blog gets missed for a day…then two…then three…but there really wasn’t much going on, so you didn’t miss a lot.
Saturday was spent getting prepared for the wedding, then attending the ceremony, supper and dance. We were honored to be the Master of Ceremonies for the evening and had a pretty good time…we even avoided the usual “discussions” we have regarding the way things should be flowing. It’s a good thing Jenna had a script written out for us that we just had to personalize with our own style. A lot of fun and a late night, as we got home around 4am.
Sunday we laid low, we went for brunch at the greenhouse, then went out to see how the land had faired with all the moisture…it couldn’t get seeded, so it looked pretty bad, but at least what was out there was dead, making it look even worse. But then, there are a lot of the fields around that look the same.
Marilyn had a meeting with her theatre ‘peeps’…a lovely afternoon in the back yard of one of the members and lots accomplished. The last couple of meetings that she has attended have been through Skype….which works, but is not quite the same. Al came and picked her up when he was done with his visiting with the neighbors out at the farm.
Monday, Al got some yard work done after borrowing the neighbor’s riding lawn mower…apparently for our ‘huge’ yard, the push mower will not suffice. We are still trying to figure out how to adapt the mini combine to cut grass. Marilyn had a rehearsal later on in the evening and this time everyone came out to our place…only four people, a small cast for the entry into the TheatreOne drama festival that is coming up in Kamsack the first week of November. Marilyn is directing this play so she will have to forgo the toy show in Dyersville, Iowa this year, because it falls on the same weekend.
During the night the storms started up around midnight, they came and went until starting full time around 3am…we ended up getting just over an inch of rain, but it was a lot better than the almost 5 inches they got to the east of us.
Tuesday it was time to pack up and head back to North Dakota, but first we had a pile of things to get done in town before we left. Al had purchased a new hopper bin to put up on the land we had bought last year and he wanted to make sure he added the dryer tube to it before they had it built…no rush, since there was no crop this year. Marilyn had to pull a marathon shift at the Sasktel store, purchasing a new Blackberry.
After talking to the people at one of the Sasktel offices on Monday, Marilyn changed her data plan so she could use her Blackberry for tethered data while at home in Saskatchewan. After getting back home, she tried it out, but the BB Curve that she had…almost three years old…kept rebooting and she couldn’t stay online. So no internet and a cranky Marilyn. Al called Sasktel to see about getting here a new phone and they said she was eligible, just sign a contract…something she wasn’t keen on doing.
She went into the Sasktel store in the mall…chaos, that place is always nuts and you have to take a number when you enter the store…she had 99 and they were on 86. She left the store, chucking her number tag in the garbage on her way to one of the other Sasktel stores…only neither one of them had the new Blackberry Torch that had just come out this week. She was not happy, but ended up having to go back to the mall to tough it out until her time came up. The good news was that they were on #99 when she got there…the bad news was that her tag was in the garbage can outside the mall, and the number cops would not allow her to step into the spot. So she took another number, this time 104. They zipped right through up to #103, then she stood there for 35 minutes waiting for it to change, all the while watching as clerk after clerk disappeared into a room and never came back out. They need to change something up there…or at least give a damn about the rest of the people waiting.
She finally got her phone and services set up…sort of…they had system issues and needed an extra 45 minutes to get everything loaded, so we took off to get fuel and then a visit in at Staples, before going back to get Marilyn’s new phone. And as Al puts it…”she’s as happy as a little girl”.
After that marathon, we carried on to Carlyle where we were going to spend the night at the Johnstone Joint…Marilyn’s sister’s place. We got there in time for supper and after a good visit and some repair work out in the shop on nephew, Gordie’s pickup, we were done for the day.
And we are back on the blog schedule…
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