It is like we have been boxing and dodging Nor’easters for the past couple of weeks. Previously they have been misses, either the snow total is negligible or the weather aided us in snow removal. This one got us in the teeth with a foot of heavy wet snow that is perfect for snowballs, snowmen, and snow forts.
I broke a path from the basement door to the driveway and uncovered the front porch that resembled a ski slope rather than steps.
The rest of today will be devoted to Disheveled Norrington who is coming along nicely. I want to get him down to the hand sewing by this evening. I also need to find the 6th Doctor and see what needs to happen to him to spiff him up for the weekend.
Caroline is off from school today however this means that she loses one day off her Spring Break which is a week from Friday. Fortunately we didn’t have any plans that involved lengthy travel.
Here is a sketch I performed at the 2012 DragonCon Puppetry Slam
It is Peter singing the song but the audience was pretty quick on the up take and by the end they were singing along.
I am a puppeteer. I really can’t remember a time that I didn’t have puppets in my life in one form or another. When I am introduced to people it is as a puppeteer. I wear the title proudly.
I am part of that odd tribe of doll wigglers, as the Great Gonzo called us, that use puppetry to entertain, to teach, and anything else we can come up with.
Puppetry has been around since Unk the caveman first performed with shadow puppets made by their hands on the cave wall using the fire as their light source and that’s a pretty long time.
Puppets can be as complicated or simple as you care to make them. They also don’t complain if there are unfinished seams in their costumes.
I love watching performers perform and the audience who gets caught up in the magic of puppetry.
So Happy World Puppet Day, celebrate by doing or seeing something puppety.
A while back Peter gave a puppet to Michele Gomez of her character Missy from Doctor Who. She told me that the puppet was going on lots of adventures because her son loved playing with it. Her husband is Jack Davenport who I really liked in Smash and the Pirate movies. I asked her that if I was to make a Jack puppet so the Michele puppet would have a companion for her son to play with, which character would she want. Without hesitation she said, “Disheveled Norrington” which has since become the name of the puppet.
This coming weekend I am going to Re-Generations where Michele is going to be so I am finishing up the puppet for her and her son. I also plan to finish my set of the Fivish Doctors giving Colin Baker his puppet that I have had for him for a while and he has known of its existence for a while as well.
I have the puppet body done and now onto the face, hair and clothes. I need to build two stands for the puppets and I am having a battery problem with my drill and I don’t have a simple fix for it.
Today I plan to get the rest of my fabric then build the clothes because they have to be distressed.
We have a small area rug that is based on the devil’s traps they draw on the TV series Supernatural to entrap deamons for various reasons. Mewlan has decided that this is the best toy for her insane kitten games in the universe. Unfortunately she gets her claws snagged in the rug while she is using to skid across the living room and it is getting a bit torn up. At this point I am just letting her do it because the rug is quickly turning into a lost cause and why shouldn’t she have some fun. It is one of Inky’s favorite places to nap especially when it is in a sunbeam.
Today is laundry day. I have declared it so due to the number of socks left in the sock drawer. We have reached that point that it is time to go buy more socks because they have worn out either in the toe or the heel. Toe I can fix but once the heel goes, it is an ex-sock. I also need to fix a hole in my favorite Dr. Strange shirt sometime today.
The power blinks that happened over the past three storms have had a couple of casualties in our house. Three surge suppressing power strips have given up the ghost doing what they were made for, keeping our electronics from doing the same thing. I have replaced them with new ones that have USB ports for one’s portable electronic needs. There is one part that is going to be harder to replace and this is one of those times I so miss Radio Shack because I know if it still existed I could get a replacement right now rather than when I get it shipped to us.
I repaired the weather strip on our front door this morning along with a few other things that needed to be screwed in around the house. I am feeling handy today. I need to get a battery replacement for my DeWalt portable drill to get a few other jobs done. Considering that those portable packs are over 20 years old, they have done well for rechargeable batteries.
Spring is in the air! Or rather the pollen season is starting around here. But we are bracing for yet another nor’easter that may or may not be coming in our direction.
I am grateful for the fact that the battery packs lasted as long as they did.
For some strange reason I have the old Monster Truck Rally commercials running through my head on repeat.
Caroline’s robot team is competing next weekend. Apparently the team dyes their hair red for this. Yesterday she went and got a pixie cut along with becoming a red head. The look really suits her. She is very happy with it. Thinking back I believe I was 15 when I got my hair cut short for the first time.
I can’t believe I am saying this but celebrities are people too and they have their good days and bad days like everyone else. Something said at an interview after having spent the day dealing with the press is something being said by a very tired person who is probably pretty punchy by this point plus they are asked about something that they asked not to talk about. That’s not on point cutting journalism but rather rude and pointless. We know the answer because they have said the same thing for years. All that was added was fodder for the trolls to claim that the celeb is a bad person now.
Holding one’s public face in place is very draining.
Baseball is about to start. I am not holding much hope that any team I have an interest in are going to do much this year. I am tired of hearing the word ‘rebuilding’ as to why the team losing is a good thing. They are working to get better is a lame excuse that no longer satisfies the fans. This holds true for most professional sports teams.
Mewlan has settled in. She has her routine. Kitty politics are mostly sorted out at this point. I have found the cats grooming each other and cuddling up into a cat pile. There are still spats but for the most part we have kitty harmony.
Boy I have a lot to do this week. I could just shut down on this or figure out how I am going to get it all done.
