Opening night

I posted a few days ago about plans to perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tonight was opening night! Unfortunately, my camera battery was slowly dying. Fortunately, lots of other people took pictures. Unfortunately, downloading said pictures taken by others from facebook results in them coming out very small. So I'm back to being stuck with the very few taken with my camera. Anyway, here are a few.



Director Charles Temple giving the cast his final words of wisdom. (Yes, that's a costume...he was also in the show as well as directing.)



The show was performed outdoors, so Deep Water Theater served as our green room/dressing room/makeup room, etc.



The makeup was fantastic, thanks to Jennifer Kidwell's wonderful design.

Here's a shot of some of the pictures she used for inspiration.



Here are a couple of examples.



Wyatt as one of Oberon's fairy attendants - love the ears!



Echo as Puck.

I think I had the best role, because I didn't have as many lines to memorize as many others, and I got to wear two great hats!

Here I am in Act I with Bill Cole. (I played Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, Bill played my fiance Theseus.)



And here Bill and I are again, this time in Act IV with Virginia and Emmet as Helena and Demetrius.



I'll post more pictures of the other characters in another blog, but in the meantime you can see some here.

No gas...

The gas station is going to be closed for a week or more. The pumps are being replaced with the "pay at the pump" kind, which is a good thing since that will mean that gas is available 24 hours a day around here. Here is a photo of the work just getting started.



I'll post an update with a photo of the new pumps once the work is complete and they are there.

Chickens!

One of the fun things about living on Ocracoke is that occasionally, right outside my window, I see something ... well, unusual. Or not typical. Not something I would be likely to see if I lived in the middle of a large city. One example is the horses which often come by here, much to Connor's delight. Today, I had another example: the chickens who live next door took a short walk to my yard for a visit.

Something new

What's missing from this picture?



Need a hint?



Yes, it's true. In case you haven't heard, the Schooner Windfall is no longer here. She needed significant maintenance work, so Rob decided to let her go gracefully and replace her with a new schooner instead. Today, Caroline called to ask if we wanted to meet a few folks down at the dock to see Windfall II's arrival. Of course, we headed there immediately! We were quickly joined by several other Windfall fans.



Fiddler Dave kept an eye on the horizon through his telescope.



Here she comes!





Captain Rob seems thrilled with his new "girl".

Signs that warm weather is officially here

1. It was still 70 degrees when I let the cat out at nearly midnight last night.

2. They took down the cool weather screen covers at Jason's yesterday morning.



Summer must be just around the corner!

Dress rehearsal and spaghetti

I had a full day today, starting with dress rehearsal for the play, which will be performed next week. Pictures...







After rehearsal, which took several hours (don't worry, the show won't be that long - it took us a while to get ready since this was our first day working with costumes, and we stopped several times during the run through to work out the final details), I was really hungry. Luckily for me, today was the day of the Jason's spaghetti fundraiser for the Boy Scouts. Talk about a great combination - I got to eat that delicious spaghetti sauce and meatballs, and support a good cause at the same time!

May Day!

Happy May Day! As for me, I just can't believe it's May. Wasn't it just Christmas a few days ago? Sheesh...