Lights...Camera...Action

Okay so I'm at it again. Top Hat Playhouse - the theater troupe I belong to is having the spring play. Now let me start by saying in November I finished up directing the high school one-act play and in March or April I start the high school musical. That being said I was not, repeat, NOT, going to direct or act in this year's production.

Well, no director could be found, it looked as if Top Hat for the first time in nearly 30 years was not going to have a production. Angel Moore - pinch hitter, relief batter stepped up to the plate and with one mumbled under the breath, head down, no-eye contact remark - became the 2009 Top Hat director. Oh I love to do it - I just had hopes of actually staying home one winter.

I believed last year's play was my Swan Song. I played Dodie the bumbling nurse in training in a play both Grandma and Mom had starred in over a 50 year span. I knocked it out of the park (to continue the baseball metaphor) and truly felt it was my one great character, the one I should be remembered for, the end of an era.

And now, because I believe community theater is a service to the community and not a selfish personal gain adventure, I am again in the driver's seat. I am trying to do this with humility.

God gives us talents and as the Bible says, "to whom much is given, much is expected." I used to pray that I could be good at something - I thought Track, Volleyball, Athletics in general...I am starting to believe that my God given talent is drama and the more I try to turn my back to it the more God presents opportunities for me not to say no. I guess I should have listened when Mom and Dad and EVERYONE else said, "Be careful what you wish for."

In other news. We got a new hot water heater today. Kent and his brother Kelly installed it - THANK YOU boys! Ours has had a slow leak but as of last night in a firey, chest hair singeing display of flame it gave it's last breath. Hopefully this one lasts as long as the last one did! (17 years!)

It is -6 (quite the warm up!) with a predicted high of 0 tomorrow. Sunday and Monday we saw temperatures of - 26 without the windchill. Ah - life on the Dakota plains. Winter may last a LONG time this year.