My leukemia's back.

[Suzie]

Hi Sour!

Hope you and the Princess are well and enjoying your day...

The sun is shining here today..maybe spring is here at last!

 

[sourland]

Hi, Suzie, cloudy, gloomy, foggy, overcast here and all is well. Princess is still sleeping

. The play she is in opens for 'senior citizens' on Wednesday. They had 13 + hours of rehearsal on Sal, and 5 hours of rehearsal yesterday. Yeah, it still hasn't come together. One of the primary characters does not know her lines well and keeps screwing things up. She was exhausted when she got home last night.

 

[N F C]

Good morning everyone

 

[Suzie]

Hi, Suzie, cloudy, gloomy, foggy, overcast here and all is well. Princess is still sleeping

. The play she is in opens for 'senior citizens' on Wednesday. They had 13 + hours of rehearsal on Sal, and 5 hours of rehearsal yesterday. Yeah, it still hasn't come together. One of the primary characters does not know her lines well and keeps screwing things up. She was exhausted when she got home last night.

Bless her! That is an awfully long time for rehearsals....no doubt the Princess will be the star of the show...!

 

[Suzie]

Good morning NFC...hope all is well with you! It is afternoon here....hubby is busy starting the construction of the new housing for the animals...hopefully the weather here will stay dry as he has to lift the existing stables roof at some stage..gonna take quite some time methinks!

 

[sourland]

Bless her! That is an awfully long time for rehearsals....no doubt the Princess will be the star of the show...!

The play is "August, Osage County", and she has the Meryl Streep part from the movie - a major role. She just told me that last night was a disaster. The person who does not know her lines had one scene so screwed up that Princess came up with an excuse to leave the stage - go backstage, look at her script and come back to 'save' the scene. The director later said, "I thought you were leaving to never return."

 

[FridayYet]

Ugh, that's awful Sour. Hope the actress gets her act together in time.

 

[N F C]

Good morning NFC...hope all is well with you! It is afternoon here....hubby is busy starting the construction of the new housing for the animals...hopefully the weather here will stay dry as he has to lift the existing stables roof at some stage..gonna take quite some time methinks!

Sending good luck wishes with the construction project Suzie!

The play is "August, Osage County", and she has the Meryl Streep part from the movie - a major role. She just told me that last night was a disaster. The person who does not know her lines had one scene so screwed up that Princess came up with an excuse to leave the stage - go backstage, look at her script and come back to 'save' the scene. The director later said, "I thought you were leaving to never return."

Maybe it's time to call in the understudy?

 

[Bunnylady]

Sour, I believe that in the theater, there's a sort of superstition that if things go too well in rehearsal, disaster will occur when the audience is there. Some just aren't happy if something doesn't go wrong - though it can play havoc with everyone's blood pressure.

Many, many, many years ago, I had a minor part (the Grand Dutchess Olga Katrina) in "You Can't Take It With You," which was a pretty bold undertaking for that group. As our performance dates approached, rehearsals ran long, and we all were getting pretty tense. One day, there was one scene that we just couldn't seem to get through. In it, one of the other characters, Kolenkhov, gives this elaborate introduction, the Grand Dutchess makes a suitably grand entrance, there's some dialog between her and the others, and she exits the other side of the stage; more dialog, etc. One or another of us kept blowing lines, and we'd get so tangled up the drama coach would have us go back to the Grand Dutchess's entrance. Hard things were said; I saw one of the other girls crying. Something had to give.

As I stood in the wings waiting for my entrance for what seemed like the 50th time, I heard Kolenkhov give his introduction through clenched teeth. When he ground out " . . . . the Grand Dutchess Olga Katrina!" I waited for a few seconds (long enough for everyone to wonder if I had somehow missed my cue), then wandered sheepishly onto the stage, looking around in puzzlement. Instead of regally informing the group that, "I am very happy to be here," I looked "Grandpa" in the eye, gave him a weak smile, and said, "hi?"

He fell out. He literally curled forward out of his armchair and lay on the floor, laughing. The drama teacher draped herself over the back of the seat in front of her and laughed so hard she couldn't speak. Most of the cast were wiping tears, this time of laughter.

Of course, once we finally pulled ourselves together, Kolenkhov had to give his speech yet again (grinning, this time), but hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do - I still think that was the best bit of acting I ever did.

I salute the Princess for taking it upon herself to fix (not just react to) the problem; and I hope things go smoothly once the audience is there (breaking legs, and all that).

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

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This is the male Cl I hatched out at 3.5 weeks. He is big and feathered out.


This is the second batch of eggs_-Americaunas from my olive egger and Americauna hens- the ones I asked all those questions about and then surprised me by hatching 3 days after I thought they should! That shoul teach me to mark it right and on the calendar! LOL.


This is my impulse $10 buy at the MD swap: a 100% English lavender Orpington. But it is a male!!!

He is so sweet and cuddly. My Julia *loves* him! She goes for him out of all the others every time. She does not like the other female lavender Orp. Oh no, not the one that can stay. She loves the cute male one.

Lovely little chicks there! Isn't it always the case that the little cockerels end up being the favorites?

I have had to resort to being an "every other day BYC member". Not on purpose, just seems that way. Sometimes you feel like you're burning the candle at both ends, that's where I'm at.

Still looking for a better job. Thursday I have an interview for accountant position. Pay is good, but location is TERRIBLE! Very far from home & in a very bad part of town. This morning I am calling back on a receptionist job that called me on Friday. It's much closer, but no idea what they are offering in pay. I've found a lot of companies are doing telephone or Skype interviews before the actual interview. I am being very selective on my next job. Been applying everywhere it seems, but it's like throwing your fishing line into the ocean.

Donrae & Old grey Mare, how are you liking your new jobs?

. Too bad we can't get paid to watch chickens all day!

Worked on the coops over the weekend in between raindrops. It's so wet and yucky out here. Mosquito haven. Thank goodness our chickens eat them! You all have a great day, got to get to my "current job".

Life has a way of pulling us in many directions, doesn't it? Just make sure you find time to give yourself a break now and then or you'll burn yourself out.
I would wish you good luck on the interview Thursday, but it sounds like that might not be what you want given the downsides. I had my first Skype and phone interviews myself this spring, the times they sure are a changing, aren't they? On the upside, I hadn't ever interviewed in my "comfy clothes" (fuzzy lounge pants) before. It can become frustrating, but hang in there.....the right one is bound to be around the corner.
Paid to watch chickens sounds lovely -- but I suppose the new job will have to do for now, lol. I am still liking it very well, which is a good thing I suppose.

You are definitely coming!

I am sure that everyone will come now that you have volunteered to cook...at least I would not need to have the fire brigade on standby...they are on high alert when I cook meals....

So you make use of those lovely screeching, wall mounted dinner bells ,eh?

Hi, Suzie, cloudy, gloomy, foggy, overcast here and all is well. Princess is still sleeping

. The play she is in opens for 'senior citizens' on Wednesday. They had 13 + hours of rehearsal on Sal, and 5 hours of rehearsal yesterday. Yeah, it still hasn't come together. One of the primary characters does not know her lines well and keeps screwing things up. She was exhausted when she got home last night.

That's a pity, no understudy or other person who might be looked to to take the part instead? Is it more of a community play group? I ask as I know that when our community did productions we took it seriously and everyone did there best, but when push came to shove sometimes it was the things that didn't go right that were the most memorable and neither the crew nor the audience was expecting perfection but all enjoyed the production just the same. I do miss those days as there were some surprising folks from the community who ended up cast in various roles and revealing some rather hidden talents.

Good morning NFC...hope all is well with you! It is afternoon here....hubby is busy starting the construction of the new housing for the animals...hopefully the weather here will stay dry as he has to lift the existing stables roof at some stage..gonna take quite some time methinks!

Sounds like quite the undertaking!