Braving the cold elements of last week I took my friend to a little side trip to the Western Development Museum’s 1910 Boom Town. It’s exhibiting a full- scale replica of a typical settlement of that era. Along the main street you can go into buildings like the general store, the blacksmith’s shop and the post office; even a one-room school. All are outfitted with antique pieces, which of course would have been the objects of everyday life at the time.
We were also interested in the exhibition of the “Hunter of the Prairie Sea”. It is a replica of a Tylosaurus fossil found in Saskatchewan. Nicknamed Omaciw, (which means hunter in Cree) and is more than 9.75 meters (32 feet) long making it one of the largest of the marine reptiles. It was discovered along the south shore of lake Diefenbaker in 1994. It is known as a very ferocious hunter of ancient seas, ready to kill just about any smaller creature that crossed its path. You just have to look at its jaws, lined on each side with two rows of pointy, cone shaped teeth. Just real vicious looking not one species I like to meet in the dark. Apparently stomach contents indicated a diet on fish, seabirds and even shark. It’s hard to believe that our flat prairie landscape was once under water.
In addition to the Tylosaurus the exhibition introduces one to the marine environment that existed in Saskatchewan million years ago.
The massive exhibit of the Tylosaurus can take your breath away and I was glad to get out of the rooms for a more pleasant experience…lunch of course.
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Don’t you just love to go to the theater?
We treated ourselves to the play “Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. The play is about how people grief and how they grief in very different ways and what can happen when those differences are at odds with each other and within a family. Grief obviously did not bring the family closer together. Sorrow isolated them. Anything that anyone said was almost guaranteed to be the wrong thing. It is a sad play and tears may easily flow as a family grieves the loss of their four-year-old son who was killed accidentally by a young driver while following his dog onto the street.
It was an evening of good performance at our new Persephone Theater.
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Rummoli anyone?
What is that? It is one of our all time favorite games. Last Friday my ladies church group played this entertaining game. We played for big money…pennies that is…
Rummoli is a great game and easy to play. Perfect for rainy days. We often get together, sometimes even for a hearty Pot Luck, which of course is every ones favorite.
As a child I used to play it with my family at my grandmothers place. It was a get-together I cherished. Always placing a candle nearby so we could continue playing just in case of power outages.
We like to add up our final penny count and see how much we are in debt or how much we made. Lots of fun to see that you made as many pennies as the player beside you lost.
Always a nice evening when spend with friends.
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