Oyen Lodge is looking for puzzles

By Sara Heath

Hello everyone! We hope everyone is having a great week with some wonderfully sunny days this week and, surprisingly, a little bit of rain. The residents have been soaking up the sun and going for walks or just sitting out and enjoying it!

This week at the lodge, we did our birthday bash celebration with ice cream cake. We also have a little competition as one of our staff members brought in a big giant pumpkin that they grew, and the residents are tasked with guessing the pumpkin's weight! On Wednesday, we went on a little field trip up to the Consort Lodge, where we enjoyed music by the Jorgenson's, and after we exchanged puzzles. Thank you to Consort Lodge for hosting us! We had so much fun, and it was so great for the residents to connect and visit! This week, we are also getting into the Halloween spirit and have started to decorate the lodge with our spooky decorations. And on Thursday, we did some Halloween paintings. We also have set out our carved pumpkins. As always, we finish our week off with a few rounds of horse racing and bingo in the afternoon!

We have quite a bit of interest in puzzles here at the lodge, and we seem to go through them very quickly. If anyone in the community has old puzzles sitting around that they want to part with, we are always open to giving them a new home.

We hope everyone has a wonderfully fabulous week!