The story of Tuck Everlasting impressed me with how it handled immortality. I’ve found that immortality to be easily pigeon-holed into a superpower when it comes with drawbacks. I enjoyed how this play subverted my expectation and made death a necessary part of life’s journey.
This production required less photography before the show as it was Lovegood’s experiment at something bigger than a class show, but smaller than a main stage production.
So I didn’t do the typical headshots, costume parades, and souvenir photos I did for the previous three shows. However, it was Jenni’s acting debut, with dual roles no less.
The lighting for this production stepped up and used color to distinguish locations, moods, and character intentions. It also gave a bold color splash for my photography.
After Fiddler on the Roof, the director asked if we would be interested in SpongeBob. I’ve seen the memes and have heard of the character. I even watched an episode for research, but I didn’t see the appeal.
But the musical for SpongeBob has become one of my favorites.
We received our season 3 Marvel United Kickstarter package in late July. I waited for perfect conditions before I could prime the miniatures, but it also encouraged me to finish the season 1 core box we got a duplicate of last June (with the Spider-Man box).
Hawaii has been a vacation destination with the kids for many years. What a gift it was to share it with them—and to have their best friends with them too.
As of last year, I had done all of the routes for Bridge Pedal. What’s left to do? How about another go-around?
The Hills got together over the fourth of July at Pacific City to enjoy fireworks and family time. We had two beach houses and one was oceanfront. The weather couldn’t have been better for beautiful sunsets and amazing views of the Milky Way.
My children, rather, my older teen children were so excited to get whole black olives at dinner tonight. They put them on their fingers and pretended some kind of story involving English soldiers bantering with each other and also talking back to the Queen. There was also lots of quoting of funny movie lines from the three of them, and, as always, the ever flowing random songs from Violet the jukebox. The mood is high and happy in our home, seeing as tomorrow is the last day of school. The girls spent all afternoon cutting their doodles out of their school workbooks, and making collages out of them. We’ve gone swimming in our pool once, and have a half flat of fragrant strawberries in the house. Summer is here, and boy are we happy about that!