New Life in Maine

Well, It has been more than a week since I 've moved to Maine and I've already done so much. I ended up painting our living room and bedroom in order to make it more ours. I had fresh lobster for the first time...Maine lobster.

You know how you see the advertising for Maine lobster...well I got it in Maine. I was excited. I had to cook it of course because someone didn't want to put them in the pot. And then I made a Lobster Bisque afterwords with the broth left over.


This last weekend we went to Acadia National Park and camped at Blackwoods Campground. Apparently it is supposed to be difficult to get a site there. My wonderful gf managed to get a night and then we got in line the next day and got another.

While we were there we hiked Cadillac Mt. It is the largest mountain on the East Coast. We ended up doing the 4.2 Mile Hike our options we driving up, 1 Mile, 4.2 and 7.7 Mile. We figured the 4.4 would be good.





That same day we went to Sand Beach. the water was supposedly 55 degrees. It was chilly. But after hiking most of the day it was a good change of pace and very refreshing.
Later in the day we went to Thunder Hole. According to sources when the waves come crashing in it makes a thunderous sound. We're pretty sure it is broken. Maybe another time. We took a picture anyways.
The next day we hiked up Bubble Mountain and checked out Bubble rock. Later that day we saw a lighthouse and ate at a lobster pound.
The lighthouse was pretty small and the lobster pound was good but expensive of course. We headed home after that to recover, sunburns and all.

It was a great trip and I highly recommend it to anyone. This is a bikers paradise by the way. I wish we both had bikes. We saw them all over the place. And there were many trails available. Maybe next time.

Summer Shenanigans

Well the summer is in full swing and I've already started working on the third and forth show...mind you we haven't closed the first show yet. Needless to say as of this moment I am ahead. This will probably not last long. I have a lot of work to do on the third show.

I built a boat today for the second show though.
It is a short canoe...some might call it a kayak...the design is an actual boat design that is suppose to be a 14' boat I shrunk to 10' per the designer's request.
The first show went off without a hitch. OK a slight hitch the umbrellas arrived a little later than expected...but they came and were perfect...until one broke. All is well though--hot glue came to the rescue yet again.
As for the rest of the summer. We have created a Frolf course, toured the Magic Hat brewery and Ben & Jerry's, swam in lake Champlain and there is plenty more to do.
The beginning of the summer was not pleasant. My car was broken into and my bike tire was flatten before making it's departure with Bearclaw. My ipod was stolen and the FM transmitter was broken thanks to some local punks. But the good news is that we helped apprehend them. Bearclaw, Menge and I chased after them and with the help of local law enforcement cornered them in the townhouses. I still have not gotten my ipod back but was told it was on them when the caught them. We'll see if I will be compensated for the broken FM transmitter and Window that was smashed.

Update...it's about time

I suppose this is long overdue as I don't do it very often. OK so I never do it. I thought I would write to everyone and give them a little update as to where I'm at, where I'm going, etc. I don't normally do this, but it has been a while since I've talked to some of you and I thought it would be good to send out an update.

I have been Co-Campus minister with my sister in Vermillion, SD for Coffeeloft.org for the last year. I have decided it is time for change yet again. I am catching the theatre bug again. Last year I spent a year as a scenic designer in Kalamazoo, MI and loved it, but I felt called to come back to Vermillion and work for Coffeeloft.org. It has been a great year and we've done a lot. I was able to help with a show this year at the U and I decided shortly there after I missed it way too much and need to get back into it. It just so happened that not long after making that decision I met this adorable girl named Ariel Del Gaizo. She is a Doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at USD and is going on internship for the next year. I have decided to move with her to Maine eventually and pursue design work in the North East.
This summer I will be moving to Vermont and working from June through August as the Property Master for St. Micheal's Playhouse in Burlington. There are quite a few people going from USD and I also have other acquaintances going there as well. It should be a good season and will get me closer to the east coast. In August I am planning on heading to Maine. Ariel will be doing her internship at the VA hospital in Togus, ME, it is outside of Augusta. I am currently looking for design possibilities in the area and have a couple of places that are interested in hiring me to design as well as work in their scenic studio as the Assistant Technical Director. I'm hoping I'll be able to find other design opportunities in other areas as well. Boston is only a couple hours away and New York is about 5; so those are possibilities. Next year I will be applying for full time theatre work in probably larger cities throughout the country. I am hoping to find something in a design field, maybe with a studio and possibly in education. We'll see. Well that is my update. Short and sweet. Hope this finds you well. Let me know what's happening with you.