now here's something you may not have thought of.....

Since William Huber moved to California, I'm very nearly desperate for an artistic photographer. today or tomorrow but not much further.. why would I be so desperate/---- well I would like to do a calendar with the dogs and the stone walls at Meredith.. and Tim thought a calendar might be fun also seeing as they're his stone walls ----- in the calendar there are always January and February photographs that are usually lovely snowy looking scenes.. so that in August when you're trying to put the calendar together there is no way I know of to fake snowstorms....

we have more snow coming next week.... and it could be the last photographable snow .

well let me take that back---there was a Blizzard couple years ago--it was the day we were going to shoot a movie in Harvard square---and they wanted fresh snow which they were getting I think probably about 18 inches of it so far.. as I parked my car, I noticed I was right behind a huge snowmaking machine.. which the movie business had ordered.. because they wanted fresh looking snow which they were getting but they didn't want to take a chance and having piles of plowed up snow mixed with sand—so they covered it,,,, in the blizzard...

I believe that was the Blizzard where I met the guy who decided to bottle the snow in the water bottles that everybody had and sell them to people or across the country that were not having a Blizzard.. totally absurd... except he was selling them ! that movie went on for 10 days and I continued to see him bottling the snow

and I never got a final count on how many he sold but the fact he sold any was a statement to creativity.. I could see the fancy directors in Hollywood with a bottle on their desk of Boston's Blizzard.-----that's not an awful lot different than the vials of puppy breath that we sold and still sell if anybody wants one.--We sold those for $8 each... and one camera person return a vial to me for a $5 refill.

moving on to other wacko movie stories.. There was a movie where they hired a guy who climbs trees (an arborist??) To climb a specific tree in Manchester, and. Tape the leaves back on the  tree..

I was involved in a situation on wingaersheek beach where they didn't like where the sun was so they blocked it out and put up another one.. or how about the dog-- a dane---- in a BMW convertible beautiful red--with his feet up on the dashboard going 50 miles an hour... which we couldn't do where we were so they moved in a mammoth fan on a trailer to make the hair of the driver and the ears of the dog blow backwards... That was our  Harlequin dog feisty did that commercial..  Then there was me with my bag of crabs being paid for six days ---4 in the morning till 6 at night keeping my crabs alive as the tide went in and out so that the minute the director called for them they would be alive and dripping wet and no they didn't want lobsters they wanted crabs ...you don't argue.

 Was kind of where I ended up with that barrel with the straps over your shoulders that can be worn for  a party...

 

I believe the IRS ruling is that if you buy something which you need for your business or at least you intend to need for your business---it is deductible--well I was a legitimate member of the Massachusetts film Bureau.. And I knew that the film industry could require absolutely anything at any time so if I purchase something to have just in case someone asked for it ----it was deductible..   ..  I am certainly no tax accountant but that concept started accidentally When some director  called for A beat up wooden ladder---which I had--and suddenly made money with it---so therefore it was part of my business --The fact that it then got painted yellow and is leaning on the wall in the bathroom holding up towels.. didn't matter... at one point it made me money.  it is a super  space saving towel holder...

There's a lot of that stuff around here---or at least there was until janine's cleaned house or barn or arena...

i still have the barrell should anyone need one...