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June 13, 2005
Things Really Have Changed
Thank goodness for photographic evidence. Otherwise, I would feel as though I'd got nothing done.
This is a picture of our backyard taken during the pre-purchase inspection. (Technically, it wasn't our backyard yet.)
If you look really closely, you can see the scary vine and chain-link fence combo along the outside of the porch, as well as the bareness of the porch and house flowerbeds. I think each of them had two pansy plants when we bought the house.
This is what it looks like now.
I do much of my veggie gardening in pots. I was about to explain why, but now I can't remember. To save more space for things like flowers and shrubs, I guess.
Dave and I built the "character patio" along the fence in a weekend. He did the actual building of the patio part, I did the digging up of sod beforehand and planting everything around it afterward part. And prior to that, I cut down all of the shrubs along the fence and he pulled up the stumps. So it's definitely been a joint project.
In other news, POW! is getting to be a lot of fun. I'm enjoying acting like I haven't in years. We got to rehearse in our costumes last Friday, and they added so much to the characters. I was supposed to be in the final workshop preparation session this morning, but the facilitator's little girl is really sick, so it was cancelled. I hope she's better by tomorrow when we actually start presenting the workshops. Otherwise, I don't know what we're going to do, since she's done all of the planning and was supposed to get the majority of the information to us today.
And I spent most of yesterday doing some volunteer voice-over work for a start-up CGI film-production company, Bad Alien Productions. It was a LOT of fun. I so enjoy doing funny voices. And there were moments when everyone in the "studio" (they brought the equipment to us, rather than making us drive to Seattle) had to stop reading to giggle because of the silliness of things. There were moments when you could tell magic was happening.
Posted by sally at June 13, 2005 09:56 AM
Comments
Hi, Sally! I'm a volunteer member of BAP (Bad Alien Productions). I was doing a random search on us (for copyright and such reasons) and came upon your blog. I just wanted to say on behalf of BAP, thank you so much for the kind words, and thank you for taking time to help us out with our "little project". We so appreciated everyone coming out and bringing some life to the project. We reviewed some of the video footage of you and the others doing the voice work recording at our last meeting. I must say it was hilarious to see. You guys did a fabulous job. So again, thanks, and look for us in the near future. We just finished a smaller project that will be available for download from the BAP website soon. Hope you like it...there's more on the way!
Posted by: Steve at June 29, 2005 02:26 PM
Not at all. I had a blast doing the recordings.
Posted by: Sallyacious at July 1, 2005 08:43 AM
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