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Early Sunday

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I’m afraid my body clock hasn’t adjusted to the time change yet, so I keep waking up quite early. On one hand, I need more sleep. On the other hand, I love the quiet of the early morning hours. The day promises to be a very warm one here in San Diego. I walked to the theater yesterday, and let me tell you, I felt the heat! Perhaps I sweated some pounds off? I have to walk there again today because it is Earth Day and in Balboa Park parking will be impossible. By the way, Happy Earth Day! I plan to investigate some of the booths while making my way to the rehearsal hall.

My work here is picking up – as of Tuesday all the actors will be in town for the Summer Repertory and I will be coaching 4 productions at once. To say my plate will be full is an understatement!

I was a happy camper yesterday because I signed up for MLB -TV and can now watch the Red Sox on my laptop! Oh boy! I love that I can keep up with my favorite team. The quality of the feed is surprisingly good. I happily sat in my wicker chair watching the game and knitting.

My friend, Elyse, passed on an award to me and I am honored to accept it. Elyse has a wonderful blog called cottage. Please stop by and look at all her wonderful creations. She is a delightful person and I am so glad we are blogging friends. Don’t you just love the cottage logo she uses?

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone. Oh, almost forgot, La Maison Rustique’s barn sale is this Friday and Saturday! I can’t wait to go. Of course, I will once again take lots of photos to share with you.

Announcing – The Giveaway Winner!

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I printed out all the names of the commenters, folded them up, put them in a bowl, closed my eyes and ta da! – the lovely Tam of The Gypsy’s Corner is the winner of the giveaway. Congratulations, Tam! I will be emailing you to get your address, so that I may send these goodies off to you. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed choosing them.


Today I have to attend another rehearsal which is a run-through of The Greeks. This is the MFA student production which opens in less than a week. The next several days will be all about watching dress rehearsals, tech rehearsals, taking notes and hopefully, giving confidence to these wonderful young actors. They are a lovely group, I must say, and I am so glad that I have had the pleasure of getting to know them.

Rehearsal will end just in time to get home and watch the Oscars. I have, I am ashamed to say, seen exactly none of the movies nominated. None. My husband and I don’t like to go to the movie theater because people are too noisy, and it costs so much! We usually wait until they come out on DVD or are on pay-per-view. I did want to go to the theater and see “Slumdog Millionaire”, but never got around to it. Ah well. Nevertheless, I love the glitz and the glamour of the ceremony and will be eating popcorn while glued to the tube. I forgot that the ceremony is live here in California so that means a 5:30 pm start time. Funny the things you forget when you’ve been away for several years!

Have a great Sunday!

Back from San Diego

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I arrived back from San Diego late Sunday night. I had a wonderful time. I coach voice, speech and dialects for the theatre and this trip brought me back to our former home and my former employer. I was working on three Shakespeare plays to be produced this summer and the days were long but envigorating. This was the surrounding scenery:

I got to see some old friends, some who work at the theatre and some who are there as actors in the Shakespeare. Besides the work, the thing I most remember is laughing like crazy. Laughter really is the most wonderful thing, It makes the shoulders drop, shooing away tension and worries.

I walked from my hotel to the theatre every day and passed beautiful flowers:

I passed the dog park where my dogs used to frolic and which now has a fence around it. How that would have saved me from freaking out when my dog Winston used to take off and run down into the canyon because he “smelled” some critter!
Now the fence goes all the way around the park and keeps the dogs in.

This beautiful fountain was right outside the door to the rehearsal rooms:

And last, but not least, the Pacific Ocean! This is what I miss most about San Diego – I love where we live now with all my heart, but if we could just plop the Pacific Ocean down right here in upstate New York it would be PERFECT!!!

I have more photos which I will post in the next few days. I go back to San Diego in June for 10 days. Right now I am just happy to be home with my husband and my dogs. And, I get to garden!

More later.

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