8 Jessie Nominations

You have heard of the Oscars, Grammy's and Golden Globes. You may have heard of the Tony's, the award for Theatre on Broadway. In Calgary we have the Betty's. In Vancouver there is the Jessie's, the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. They have announced their nominations for this season. Beyond Eden has captured 8 nominations. I have been told that is a record.

Jessie Nominations:

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Tom Jackson

Outstanding Lighting Design
Alan Brodie & Kevin Lamotte

Outstanding Set Design
Bretta Gerecke

Outstanding Costume Design
Bretta Gerecke

Outstanding Sound Design
Chris Jacko & Michael Rinaldi

Outstanding Production
Beyond Eden

Significant Artistic Achievement:
Outstanding Visual Art Design
Gwaai Edenshaw

Outstanding Projection Design
Jamie Nesbitt

That is pretty exciting!

Progress

Our little shack continues to grow. It has gone up very quickly.

The guys were back on May 13th to do the framing.

May 14th for the roof trusses and the particle board.

May 15th the particle board went up on the roof and the shingles were delivered.

This photo is from May 19. Shingles complete. Tyvek up and flapping in the wind. These days have gone slower as it has been raining. Those boys didn't wait long before declaring a rain day.

Today. May 20th. Siding is up on much of the garage. They have also put door knobs on. The tarp went up because in the few days that there has been a roof three robins nests have been found in our rafters. They are trying to keep them out.
While the garage has been under construction Logan has taken on a few other projects.

The Deck:

He flipped all of the boards over and sanded them. We screwed them back down, stained and created new stairs. Logan's creative idea of running the stair down the full length of the deck. Someday (when there is more money to throw at the backyard we will redo the deck. It needs it badly! But somehow I think we have spent enough this year). Fence:
Logan has also been ripping down the crappy old fence. The fence that we used to declare at the beginning of every Bocce Ball game "You knock out a fence board you buy a new section". It has come down in a big pile. New pressure treated boards have gone up and are secured in place (unlike the last fence which was held up with a wing and a prayer and a bit of tension from a 1x1 board). We will be able to reuse the fence section that were put up around the parking pad that came down for the garage.

Garage is underway

I have done my research. We have made the calls. We have employed a contractor and the work has begun.

Monday, May 3rd:

We started our construction journey.

We started by tearing down the new portion of fence. It was the first act of home improvement we did on our new house. We will reuse the fence sections to replace the crap old fence.

Back to where we started. May 2010.

May 2008 Fence Post 2008

May 7th. Toy Box Garage starts cement prep.

May 8th. The cement pad is poured.

The new fence supplies have arrived. We will finally be able to get rid of the existing fence.

It is hard to know when they will continue the building process. But I am excited to see the changes.

Mostly the same

Last nigh we played Wii with the cast and crew again. This time only until 3am.
Always a good time.

On Sunday the garage building company called to say that they were ready to do cement prep on our yard, and that we should take down our fence. So we spent the day taking down the fence that we put up two years ago at this time.

This morning around 8am they pulled up with all of their loud trucks. They have cleared the area and we should see out cement pad poured tomorrow.
Very exciting.