BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02610 With the snow finally starting to melt the yard is covered with small branches from the tree being trimmed in the Fall. I've picked up a bunch so far and am using them int he raised beed to build up the base again. It is almost time to go and get some more soil and compost.

Photo-A-Day #02609 Today was the last performance of The Winter Wolf for the first weekend. What a fun weekend. This has been a very enjoyable show and I'm having fun. There have been a couple of hiccups including today. There was a moment when my onstage wife repeated a line. I got a bit flustered and we recovered but we'll avoid that in the future.

Photo-A-Day #02608 After last night's play I had to work. That is usually how I do things when I have a play, I will take 4 hours off on Fridays and Saturdays and all of Sunday off. We had a Windows PAtching Event this morning and there was something that my cousin, shaun said or tried to do and it did not work out. I had said how to do it and I just keep this photo for when someone does not do the thing I suggested the first time.

Photo-A-Day #02607 Tonight was opening night of The Winter Wolf. It went very well. The wolf head here is named Leiko and he is Doug's. Doug wanted to put it in the play at some point but it didn't work out. so Leiko is in the green room on top of an LED light so that he shines his bright eyes.  Allison and the kids came to see the show. They had a good time.

Photo-A-Day #02606 A while back I found some cute little stone wolves on Tik Tok. I picked up two sets of them to give as gifts to my fellow cast members and people who worked with the show The Winter Wolf. I can't decide if I give them to people tonight or at the end of the show's run. Mine has been sitting on my desk since close to when I got the script. We had a day off from the show today.

Photo-A-Day #02605 When Allison and Eva returned from London Eva had brought back some itty Pops of Transformers for me. However the mystery figure in this set was a Lite Brite and not Soundwave of The Transformers. There were other Mystery sets and I found a low priced G.I.JOE set. I figured that I would give it a shot and maybe get Soundwave. No, I actually got the real G.I.JOE mystery figure, Dr. Mindbender. So now I have a whole set of G.I.JOE but I am still missing the bitty Soundwave figure. I have a feeling that this is going to rabbit hole very soon. In other news tonight we had our first dress rehearsal in front of people. A handful of The Masons came down and watched the show. This is our last rehearsal before opening night on Friday. I had most of my lines down so I'm feeling pretty good on it.

Photo-A-Day #02604 The professional headshots are in and the board is up for the lobby of the Attleboro Community Theater. I've got a rather shiny head because I had just shaved it and also my smile is looking a little psycho because I can't hold a real smile for that long and then it starts to look too intense. One extreme or another I guess.  Tonight we had another run through but not in full costume. We did well tonight. Our director was very pleased. Our main actor, Emma, did so well. She's only 13 and she is carrying the show. A lot of pressure for a young kid. I asked Andy to make me some Christmas cookies for one of my scenes. They did a great job on them and even made Ninja Bread Men, which I think Emma will love because she takes karate at ABD. I learned that my former Sensei is coming to see a show.  Emma, who is a little smart-ass, said, "He's not coming to see you, you quit." I'm actually glad that she is feeling comfortable enough to tease me,...