Since the pandemic has afforded many people with extra time on their hands, many people are choosing to pick a new skill or hobby.  The residents of Wheatland Lodge are no different, and have become hard-working toy tinkers, and their first batch of items are already off the production line.

In a post on their social media page the lodge announced the Wheatland Lodge car and truck dealership is open for business.  Business is good because all of the items have been sold already. 

Randy Melcher from Rockyford loves to work in his shop and has offered his skills before to the lodge and gave them small things to put together like flower baskets for Mother's Day.  Chief Administrative Officer, Vickey Cook says, "We have an empty room during isolation so they overtook one of the little rooms and turned it into a little workshop and that is how the tinker toy title came to be.  Any money that they sold them for went back into their activity account."  

The wooden, brightly coloured items have a deep gloss and there is a variety of pick up trucks, farm equipment, and helicopters with duel wooded blade on top.  The artist Eldon Walls came up with the designs, and the paint job draws the toy lovers to a time before pandemics and quarantines that people are really longing for.