A Leetle Keetty Found!

Hello,

Now for a week before last Saturday. My mom and I were going to PetSmart to get dog food for Liza when we saw a very very little animal cross the road and go into the brush. We stopped for a moment there and realized that it was a little kitten! So, we go on to the pet store and then we abandon the store idea and realize that we want to try to save the kitten. So we go home, get like 68 pounds of bug spray on (it had just rained), food and milk to entice the kitten, and long cloths, and begin our excursion into the woods!

First, we make the typical little kitty clicking noises that say "come here!" but that doesn't work, so we begin meowing...yes meowing. And whadya know! It works! The kitten meows back. This is the tool we used to locate where the kitten was going, because we couldn't see her.

There were a few times where she came out as if she wanted to eat, but then gets scared by out movements and goes back into the weeds. After about three or four of those, I finally grabbed her. And what skin and bones she was! I could feel each bone in her spine and her pelvis and her ribs...it was really sad. (And another thing, when we found her, this cat looked to young to be out on her own...maybe a little longer than my hand.) We brought her back home where we fed her cottage cheese and yogurt (those were the only things she would eat.)

That next Monday, we took her to the vet and found out she had a cold and a strange wound thing under her neck. Both of which are going away now. By the way, she weighed 1.2lbs...

Now she is doing very well. She has gained weight and feels normal now, her cold's almost gone, and her sore is healing.

She loves to be pet and purrs instantly when you enter the mudroom. We don't know if we are going to keep her or not, but if our other cat, Poppins, doesn't mind her, we may.

Lost in Ann Arbor!

Hey,

I've kept you a little out of the loop lately and I'm sorry. Let's start with the earliest adventure, shall we?

Well, not last Thursday but the one before that, I went to my SAT tutoring class in downtown Ann Arbor...and then later I had to go to my college essay class at my school, which is on the East side of Ann Arbor. So, I had to go from the West to the East. Well...I got to the tutoring place alright, but when it ended, I realized that I needed gas. My light had just gone on. But of course I'm complete poop at directions so my mom's trying to tell me how to get to the nearest gas station with little luck. So I told her I'd just "wing it." Um, let me tell you how THAT went.

FIRST, I'm trying to get to the gas station that my mom told me to go to. THEN I find another one that I pass like 3 times before I find the entrance. And its a SMALL station. Barely room for four cars. So after I'm done there, I'm trying to find Main St. which is not hard to do because it runs all the way down Ann Arbor. I find it, but I can't turn left onto it. So I go straight into places I've never seen before. Somehow, I end up by Blimpy Burger, which I have NO idea where that is. Then I magically end up on South University which is on the OTHER SIDE OF TOWN!!! Luckily that runs into State, but then I think I'm going the wrong way so I turn around. But I'm actually going the right way, so I go on Main then Liberty. But THEN I turn the wrong way on that, so I have to turn around. So I go into the parking structure to ask my how to get to school (because the road I normally take is closed). He tells me and I have no problems there. But THEN when I get to Geddes, an enormous oversized truck with a trailer blocks BOTH lanes so I have to wait for about five minutes. THEN I get to school. But then I get lost again going down town trying to get back to the University. Only buses can turn the way I want to turn so I have to go this roundabout way again. It's not as bad as the previous excursion, but its still pretty bad.

By the time I get home, I'm exhausted...

Updates on Filming

Hi Everyone,

Sorry I haven't been on in a while but it has been completely crazy. We have been having some of our basement walls replaced since filming began. So our house is on stilts until they get the new walls in. They already have one side but they are now crashing in the other ones this week. They will probably be done the end of this week or the beginning of next week.

The setup days consisted of arranging hay bales, laying down fake plastic limbs, stringing up party-like lights, party stuff. They were also setting up their sound stuff and camera stuff...it was cool! I will maybe post pictures once the movie comes out in April 2011...don't want to get the production company mad by releasing stuff before the date.

Our property had many semi-trucks and equipment on it during filming, but most of that stuff's gone now because they are taking a break filming in our barn for a week. Then they are going to come back and film for as much as five more days! Cool!! I am going to ask if I can meet some of the actors...not counting on a 'yes' but its worth a try.

There is a tent with AWESOME food that we can eat at dinner time! I had salmon the first night, flank steak the second, and a thick steak the third. There is also a truck and we can go and get snacks throughout the night. They usually only let crew (not extras) but since we are the homeowners, we can get the food too. It has ice cream, chips, fruit, candy, etc. The truck that makes the meals has a full kitchen inside with refrigerators and stoves! Cool huh?

So for filming: They started filming last Wednesday night (July 21) at night and they continued on Thursday night and Friday night. I stayed up all the nights and went to bed at 5AM each time. Only Wednesday I slept a little in the middle when nothing was going on.

On Wed. night, my cousin Caroline and her mom (my aunt) came over to spend the night and watch the filming. They filmed some extras going into the barn for a party, some scenes with Courtney Cox hiding in her car about to go in disguise into the party, and some running scenes in the basement of the barn. The mosquitos were really bad and I got a zillion bites.

On Thursday night, they filmed some scenes where the extras are dancing and whatnot at the party in the main floor of the barn. Then they filmed a scene where Courtney goes into the barn disguised as ghostface like the other kids. She plants a few cameras. They she goes into the loft and is attacked by the real ghostface. They did a few of the shots different ways to experiment which one they liked best.

On Friday night my best friend Evelyn came, and David Arquette came and did some scenes where he runs into the barn and tries to save Courtney who had just been stabbed. Oh yeah! I met Courtney's stunt double who fell off the loft into some hay for one scene and did some fighting scenes for another. I also met the stunt guy who plays the ghostface killer. He is a very nice person...which makes the movies a bit less scary.

So that's the news for now! I'm sure there's more from last week I'm forgetting, but I will add later if I remember. I promise I will keep posted on the other filming nights! An all around cool time!

Over and out!

It's official!

Well, its officially official! The movie's gonna be filmed in our barn! There are going to be about 120 extras and about 150 crew people.

They are looking for cool angles to film. The art crew is going to use some of the old barn wood form our corn crib to make a cool sign that will be used in the movie, and maybe a few benches.

Well, I'm tired...off to bed...more tomorrow on the beginnings of the set up!

Meeting Wes Craven!!!

I forgot to post the happenings of yesterday...

Well, about 30 people came to our barn; all were producers and set art people and camera people. They were trying to decide where they could get good shots in the barn.

Wes Craven came at about 5:45 and he shook my hand! He loves birds like I do and there were some dead birds outside the barn and he instantly looked at them.

We are going to hear from them today or tomorrow morning so they can tell us for sure that they are going to film in our barn and so they can give us a contract.

I'll keep you posted...

We're in the MOVIE BUSINESS!!!

So for some EXCITING news!!!

It is almost for sure set-in-stone that a scene from a movie directed by Horror film director Wes Craven called Scre4m (Scream 4) will be shot in our barn!

Here's the sequence of events that happened:

A college-aged girl came to our house and said that she was scouting barns for a movie directed by Wes Craven and that she wanted to take a few pictures of our barn to show her boss. That was on Friday night...

Yesterday, we got a call from that girl's boss saying that he and another guy were going to come out at about 3PM to look.

THEN today, we got a call from another person who said that some Producers are going to come out at around 9-10 so they can see what the barn looks like when it is dark out...they want to see it right before the sun sets, and when the sun has set.

THEN tomorrow, at around 4-6 I think, Wes Craven himself is going to come to our house to look at the barn and decide for sure if it's going to be used. But if the director himself is coming out, it is almost for sure that our barn is going to be used!!!!!

Exciting huh? I thought so...

Prominent actors in it: Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette

Well, I'll check in with the latest scoop from the producers and director(s)...

A second furry little surprise

Well, now for the second installment of the little brown bat story. Last night around 1:45AM (I guess that would be this morning actually!) ANOTHER bat found its way into my room. It is now trapped in the same window as the first one. My dad went and looked in the attic to see if he could see any signs of a colony...pack...flock...what is a group of bats called? He couldn't see any signs of them, but that means nothing because the experts told us that they can fit through a space as thin as the diameter of a nickel...or even a gap the diameter of a pencil! So, I'm not sure what's gonna happen from here, but all I know is that if another bat ends up in my room while I sleep, there will be some wrath involved...

I'm sleeping in my parent's room tonight. Tomorrow we are going to bring the bat to the Huron Valley Humane Society to be tested for Rabies just in case. There has only been one case this year and only like 1% of bats carry rabies in Washtenaw County, but you can never be too sure. The lady I talked to said that you wouldn't know if you'd been bitten while sleeping because it would just look like a pinprick...and that's like finding a needle in a haystack...with all the mosquito bites I have...

Well, I'll keep you posted on the Bat News