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Yawn

This kind of day is the hardest of all. Thor and I came in at 9:00 today because his character was in a scene at the beginning of the day. The other puppeteers were on standby and arrived at 11:00, but we still hadn’t shot a puppet scene yet. In fact, none of us were […]

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Waiting for Rain, revised

Steve Savile went through Waiting For Rain and really helped me see the pacing problems and the places where my main character wasn’t active enough. Not to mention some clarity issues. He read it and just shouted (not really) questions at me as they occurred to him. I would fix the passage in question and

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Rob and I are hunkering down and enjoying some quiet time. We’re making dinner for ourselves this evening. Menu Curried butternut squash soup Celeriac fennel salad with shaved parmesan Ravioli stuffed with chantrelles, carmelized onion and goat cheese Spinach tossed with persimmons Rob is picking wine, but I don’t know what it is.

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Rob’s 2nd day off

We came back from the winery last night and slept in this morning. It was truly lovely. About the only thing that is frustrating me is that I can’t roll onto my left side, because of my shoulder. I know this verges on too-much-information, but–[Censored by thoughts of my mother]

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Cellar Club Harvest Party

Bethel Heights has a cellar club and invite them to a harvest party every year. This year they tried something different, and actually had a meal instead of just taking them through the winery. It seemed as if the event went off very well. I helped out some, but had to keep my left hand

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At Bethel Heights

Rob came home last night to drop off some Frameworks wine, so I took advantage of the opportunity to ride down to Bethel Heights with him. I’m working on Waiting for Rain. while he is busily crushing grapes. It’s great because my main character in Waiting for Rain is a winemaker. Even though I’ve been

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Rob visits

I think I might have neglected to mention that Harvest preperation has begun, so Rob has been away at the winery since Monday. He came home tonight around 8:30 and will be gone again by 5:30 tomorrow morning. I’ve missed him.

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The Bottling Line

I went down to Westry Winery with Rob to help with the bottling line. This was my first time working on an assembly line and boy, it was as dull as one might expect. My job was to put the capsules on the top of the bottle. This is the piece of foil that goes

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Camp is finished

The show went off successfully. Everyone “loved it,” which is proof-positive that you can’t trust an audience member to tell you if something is good. This was not. I’m not talking about professional-quality, which I wasn’t expecting by any stretch, I’m just talking about in the realm of summer camp shows. The script sucked and

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The winery?

Rob went down to Bethel Heights yesterday and wound up staying overnight because they wanted him back this morning. I knew that would happen. I took advantage of the reversion to my spinster days to continue reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel which I’m very much enjoying.

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