survivors of the fire play

 in the afternoon i went to see the play 'survivors of the fire'. it was in st. paul in a former church building, and the theater troupe is called 'bucket brigade'. i had seen a card about it at a speedway gas station, and i let them know when i arrived this is how i heard about it. this was about the great fire of 1894 in hinckley, a town i have seen only once, to see a concert at the casino many years ago. the stories being told about who perished were sobering to say the least. also notable was the story of those who survived by getting onto a train out of town, and how the bridge collapsed just minutes after it crossed. there was cups of water given to the attendees near the end of the show. the actors danced around the room during a wedding scene ealry on and i think i was invited to join the line but i did not join it. i recognized some of the songs performed in it, such as 'skip to my lou', 'bringing in the sheaves', and 'amazing grace'. there was a pre-show where we did see music being performed and we were told the band kept playing as the actors needed more time to get ready. there is an ad in the program for the next show by this troupe, around Valentine's Day, a marriage musical called 'til death'. i am pleased with what i got done throughout the day. in the morning i did two things that were 'postponed from an earlier date'. this was taking recycle to the capitol and dumping change into my savings account at the credit union. then i made it to a walgreen for a vaccination, although i wasn't thrilled with the wait time just to get checked in. then it was on to more stops. nothing to pick up at the post office, then i got a sandwich at jersey mike's. after the sandwich i went to the nearby target and got another seasonal cereal, haunted lucky charms. it was one of two cereals bought, as i saw in the same aisle how there are some boxes of chex with charlie brown characters on them for the Christmas season. i got the wheat chex, linus is on it. there are five kinds, each with a different character on the front of the box. my last stop was aldi, for groceries. at first it was hard to find anything to watch on tv for the evening. but then i found 'family feud', for the first hour. then it was three hours of norman lear reruns- 'maude', archie bunker's place', and 'jeffersons'. i went through food wrappers while watching the reruns and it looked like, based on the expire dates on the chip bags, i hadn't done it in at least a year. i did notice how there weren't as many for reese's peanut butter, but i knew i had cut back on how many i was getting from walgreen after each of the four 'candy holidays' once they are discounted. now i can see better what is in that drawer of the fridge, where i keep the cans of beer. i write down how many chip or candy bags i had for each kind. later on i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 9 cents.