BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02330 Eva has been hard at work sewing a new costume for the Granite State Comicon. What she has on now is the proof of concept for her costume. So she sewed this whole outfit before she sews her actual costume. I hope that she does well in the costume contest this year. She hasn’t entered it many times because she did not completely make her previous costumes. I thought that she had made enough to enter but she is a stickler for the rules. This September she’ll be presenting the actual costume. Such hard work.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02329 Today was the Brennan Color Run and I volunteered again. This is a fun event and it was much better organized than last year. I worked with the husband o the PTO president. He was a pretty nice guy. We started with the fifth and sixth grades. We had a ton of color and went through the whole box. When the seventh grade came out I got a shot with Andy. The kids had some events to do prior to actually running. They had an obstacle course as well as a dunk tank and more. they were also doing pies to the face of some teachers, an incentive they got for donations. After Andy ran around several times. One time through they gathered a ton of color in their shirt and then blasted me with it at the same time that I blasted them back. We were covered in the stuff. I left before the end of school so that I could shower and let Andy walk home so that they could get some of the color off on the walk and also not get a ton of color in my car. At the end of the event Andy was se...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02329 We are nearly one week away from opening night and tonight for rehearsal we did the whole show in costumes. My costume changed a bit for the policeman because now I have this very small Bobby hat. It barely fits. The group did a fantastic job tonight. There were a few hiccups but that was because of one guy who hasn’t been at barely any rehearsals. so he missed cues and more. It was annoying but we’ll get him up to speed and he’s in scenes with me. Sunday begins tech week so a full day there.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02328 One of the things that I do because of Virta is have a couple of Bouillon cubes each day for sodium. I’m not a fan of straight up drinking the stuff so in order to get some additional protein and veggies I have made it more interesting with mushrooms, green onions and little shrimp. I can pick up cans of tiny shrimp and get 4 soups out of it. I can also get cans of mushrooms and get the same amount across the soups. I wanted some additional veggies so I added green onions which you can get a bunch for cheap. They add flavor and veggies. So Each day I make a couple of these soups to get the sodium as well as protein and veggies. Taste pretty good, too.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02327 I was at rehearsal tonight and a bit bored because everyone was there and I did not have to fill in for anyone. I had already played out all the games on my phone and social media was all the same stuff so I started messing with the apps on my watch and discovered that I can use my watch to control my phone’s camera. So I took this photo.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02327 We’ve got Mushrooms growing in the yard along the walkway. Andy scanned them with an identifier app on their phone and picked them to inspire some building on Minecraft. I’ll have andy compost them tomorrow.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02326 When I arrived at rehearsal tonight the sign for Sly Fox was out in front of the building. It is great to see that up because we are coming so close to the opening night. Next Sunday starts Tech Week for the show. Tonight there were a couple of people missing so I stepped in to a couple of roles. I was all over the place throughout the whole night. The show continues to come together. The cast is lovely and it has been a lot of fun. The weirdest part for me is when I have to do my actual role, it is rather small but still a role. When you go from doing everything to saying a couple of lines it is a bit strange like there is nothing for me to do in the final play. I am trying to put in some little things to make my character stand out a bit. Let’s hop eit works in the final performances.