Lights, Camera, Action!

Well, today is the big shoot. Warner Brothers is filming the Christmas special for their Supernatural series at our farm. They came out Thursday and Friday of last week to build the set, then had 24-hour security here over the 3-day weekend, and today this farm is busier than our busy weekends!

For those of you not familiar with Supernatural (like me), it's a series about a couple of hunky guys who are like ghostbusters...trying to figure out the good guys and the bad guys, the good spirits and the demons. In this episode, the hunks think that the Santa of Santa's Village (our farm) is a serial killer. You can see why this isn't exactly a family show...

The morning started early, with the first semi rolling into the farm across the street at 4:30. By 5:00 there was a traffic jam. Whey I finally poked my head up and looked out my bedroom window, I could see tents everywhere in my driveway and side yard. There is a huge tent for the extras to hang out, a nice concession stand (everything is free), a whole little city in my yard!

Across the street at Krause's, where there are at least 20 semis (good thing he enlarged his parking lot!), there is an incredible catering truck where we all had breakfast this morning (including Storm). Everyone is coming home for lunch today, and Sean is staying home this afternoon to watch the shooting. Nathan took Dylan to school and then came home to have breakfast and watch a little. It's an amazing undertaking for one day of shooting. They even have live reindeer here!

The nice thing is that they're paying really well to use our farm! In fact, Don's office renovations are courtesy of Warner Brothers!

Cheers,
Cathi