Worked at home today… A morning’s  worth of contentious phone conferences.. then an afternoon of helping Max get his school arrangements in order.  I’ve been on the road so much, it was nice just spending the day in the house.   I notive that Max must have grabbed my camera last night while I was sleeping and took this shot of himself eating some of Granpa’s birthday cake.. funny boy !

I did take a break around 10 when Katherine came by to interview us about the Voices project. Katherine is interviewing all the cast, crew and hangers-on (that’s us) associate with the project as part of a ‘making of… ” feature for the DVD release of the movie. It was fun being interviewed.

She asked how the movie had effected all of us…   We were able to gush about how much we loved having all of these kids as part of our lives for a big chunk of the summer.

 The afternoon passed pretty quickly and quietly. The major even was when Gabe accidentally ‘weed wacked’ his ankle while dragging  the weed wacker behind him. It’s a nasty mix of cuts and bruises.. but pretty cool looking nonetheless. He was pretty brave about it..

 

Before dinner we dipped into the back of Hocksett fireworks again and set of a few. I tried taking a few shots with my camera filming right next to the firework.. It was pretty cool.. and my camera survived it fine.  

Here’s a hot air baloon I made tonight.. but it was too wet an windy to try it.. I’ll keep you posted on it’s launch.

 

Before I knew it, it was dark and time for dinner. Diane and I took Gabe, Dylan and Dylan’s friend Steve to Bridge Street for a meat fix.. I just sat and watched.. and stole some of their French fries. It was great seeing folks like Marvin and Lori at the retsurant.    

While we were out eating, Debora, Justin an Aimee were redoing our downstairs for some more filming tomorrow. Diane and I will be doing cameo roles as the character Naomi’s parents. I’m supposed to be an old hippy scientist..    It will be a stretch for me .. I know…

 

It’s late now and a few of the voices kids have filtered in. This is the last night for some of them… and you can feel a little of the bitter sweetness of an ending..

These kids all worked so closely (and so well) together for the last 5 weeks.. it’s bound to be a little hard for them to go back to their normal lives.. it’s going to be hard for us, too , I suspect…   It’s all hard now… really… Sam

-jc