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Ext: The Rikerford Access Point

It was supposed to be a horrible wet crappy weekend.  So despite all of the horrible weather that was supposed to completely ruin the weekend for shooting, we watched the weather forecast until the last minute and went out with the mindset of we’ll shoot what we can shoot.

I didn’t sleep worth a damn.  Decongestants always make me twitchy.  We started the morning pre-dawn, I wasn’t feeling great.  Running a slight fever, and my head felt like a brick.  No time for being sick.  So I got up, medicated, showered and got dressed then went out to turn the truck around to hook up the trailer to it… Smash!!!   Backed right into a neighbors car that was parked in my blind spot. Yes, stupid, stupid me. I should have checked, but in my defense it was dark, and it was a black car.  This is not how you want to start your morning… trust me.

Got the insurance information taken care of, got the truck packed, get the trailer hooked up… and we’re off.

When the sun started to come up, and it looked overcast and ready to rain.  The hour and twenty minute drive to Union (yes Union, Sullivan has officially been left behind).  We got to the filming location, the sun came out, and not a drop of rain fell.  It was an absolutely beautiful day.  We shot all day Saturday.  All the way up til Derek took the first spill in a canoe.  No dry wardrobe, no more shooting…

So we went Sunday as well, with a similiar forecast, and again, not a drop of rain.

So much good stuff this weekend.  Even though by Sunday night I was running a fever of 102 (I’m sure standing in a cold river all day didn’t really help), but here it is Tuesday, the fever’s broke, I sound like hell, but I feel pretty damn good.

More on this weekend to come, just got to play catch up.  Plenty went wrong, but so much went right, it really didn’t seem like a big deal.