~:: Never a Dull Moment ::~

I have this whole, insane load of craziness to record here. But Gin is coming, so I am dusting and washing and shaking out things in preparation for the visit of my lovely daughter and the boys.

Just a head’s up. Last week I had a fit of – I don’t know what. Feeling mushy. Like nothing I was doing meant anything.  And this is what happens when I feel that way: I DO something. Usually, actually, something I will regret later—like taking a load of things I’m tired of to Good Will (DI). That is how I lost a very dear family heirloom.

Beware of me.

This tree, over thirty years old, was getting grizzled—a bunch of dead branches on the lower trunk. I hated them.  Every time I looked at them, I reminded myself I had to do something about them. For years, I did this. So as an antidote to mushy, I stomped out to the garage, got down the scary pruning tools and proceeded to effect mayhem. I even put the dead branches in the back of the truck. No heirlooms were harmed.

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A day in the life: Thursday last.

First on the agenda: a meeting at Orren Hatch’s office. Met with Ron Dean, his Guy on the Ground, about a 700 acre marsh an environmental committee wants to put in three blocks away from thousands of houses down here. It would mean re-routing our river and providing habitat for about three billion mosquitos. After Rachel nearly lost her life to West Nile, the rest of us think this is a fairly dreadful idea.  Especially considering that there’s a very long OTHER side to the lake where nobody lives. The gloves of the People are coming off.

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G, setting up.

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The producer gives notes. Our strings are very good.  Our producers are very good.  Heck. our SOUND is very good.  I can claim no credit at all for this, except that i count the beans. But I get to hear it all go down, faintly, through my office wall.

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Poor Ray, stuck in the piano isolation room. He plays flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, recorder, piccolo—anything that counts as a woodwind, Ray plays brilliantly. And he’s a sweetheart.

Third: a film shoot in the LL (long, light – family – room) This took till about one in the morning.  Not business as usual, but delightful because I got to watch Cam at work, and I kibitzed.

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Cam’s Red camera.  Green screen. When you need to shoot actors and then overlay them on a more exotic location, you shoot against a green screen.

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My son. WOO HOO impressive to me.

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The dining room becomes wardrobe.

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In the rest of the room: what happened to the denizens of the place.

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Behind the green screen.

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I love these shots.  LOVE them.

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Cam directing.

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Wardrobe adjustment

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Yes. Directing. My kid.

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