Helping out in Rhode Island

After touring RISP, we continued on to Narragansett to help Heather pack up her old studio and move to a new one. This is just one part of the job we had ahead of us. I was not long before Donna was rocking and rolling and we were making headway. The trash pile started slowly and just grew and grew. We found unopened papaer from RISP days (about 17 years ago), RSIP assignments, film.....film? who uses that anymore? In the end we moved two jeep loads of cardboard and stock and 6 or 7 55 gallon trash bags. We sorted and boxed everything going to the new studio.


Unfortunately the new space was not quite ready, as you can see the painting was not finished and was being applied at a snails pace. You know the guy...ex-rocker, work ethic in toilet, real jobs too hard....I know I can paint.... Was way too funny watching this character work. Show up around 10am, start painting and by god it's noon time for lunch. What a guy!


I spent the morning of the next day reinstalling Heather's drop down backgrounds. AS with any install the studs did not line up anywhere near where i needed to hang the brackets. Only a few screws were sunk into wood the others had sheetrock fasteners. Don't fret reader I installed metal strapping from the extensions up thru the drop ceiling, tied into the joists above. In a phrase "They ain't going anywhere!"


After finsihing what we could it was time to break. We ate at a little Italian Resturaunte'. Try the spinnach pie!! yum yum. Rob, Heather's husband joined us after work. Don't let the smiles fool you, we were dead tired, well at least I was. Donna and I were happy to lend a hand. Can not wait to go down again and see it fully set up. Gonna be a cool studio. Check out Heather at http://www.hfphotography.com/ or http://www.hfphotography.blogspot.com/