At 9am a taxi picked me up to go and collect my Nissan Sentra at Enterprise Rent a Car. I’ve booked it for a weekend and a week. I was delighted to find a Starbucks nearby as there was no electricity at our flat.

I spent the morning putting together bird beaks/spouts and started on a rooster jug. My cousin Shirley from Pierceland, Sask (look it up, it’s near Cold Lake, Alberta) phoned to say that she would be in to visit this afternoon. I took Brenda over to the South Saskatchewan River for a picnic lunch and to join the people having a look at a very swollen river. The trail next to Seven Persons Creek is mostly closed because it’s flooded. Irvine and Maple Creek, Sask are in a state of emergency. It’s all rather worrying for Medicine Hatters. IXL Brickworks is flooded we’re told. The power went off in the studio last night for 3 hours. And now there’s a boil water advisory for ‘the flats’ ie the houses near Medalta.

Shirley arrived with her daughter-in-law Angela and grand-daughter Camryn 10, from Strathmore, Alberta. She’d driven 7 hrs yesterday from her northern home and they’d come 3 hrs from Strathmore today to visit Medicine Hat and me.

They really enjoyed the Medalta Museum and visiting the Shaw Centre studios and meeting many of the Artists.

I managed to finish assembling the rooster while they were learning about the crocks, kilns and the Squared Gallery.

After they left I was happy to drive Leigh, Jin and Brenda over to see the wide Sask River again. We also passed the arena where there were sand-bags and some people opting to stay there rather than in their homes with flooded basements. After some delays we were able to drive through town, out to Hwy 1 and the long way back to the MH College area. We found ‘Argos’ for supper – rather basic, and then found that electricity had been restored in our flats in the ‘New Res’. Another BUSY day!