rain

[calimac]

After a preview of the heat of summer, a mixture of rains and threatening weather returned starting a few days ago, wreaking schedule alterations on outdoor events which are normally common in May.

A press tour of Stanford's outdoor amphitheater, to which symphony concerts are returning this summer, was put off from last week for two weeks. While outdoor concerts are not much my thing, I have never been in this amphitheater, so I'm curious to go.

Today was supposed to be the Barron Park May Fête, Barron Park being a small community hidden away inside Palo Alto, whose town park is the location of the corral where lives the donkey, the one used as model for the character in Shrek. (I've seen the donkey at past events, and they look exactly alike.) I was especially eager to go because Brocelïande would be playing, but the rains this morning made it look doubtful, and indeed I found a Nextdoor listing that said it had been canceled. So, stay home and do some work.

Comments

[ranunculus]

mmm. would that be the newly refurbished Frost?

[emceeaich]

The sky decided to open up this morning as I was crossing the parking lot at the San Mateo County Events Center to help table at Maker Faire.

I arrived at our booth cosplaying the proverbial drown rat.

[athenais]

What? The donkeys of Barron Park were inspiration for Shrek? That's amazing! We used to live over there when we first moved back from Nashville and we took our dog Dixie to see the donkeys all the time. Got into a lot of conversations with the people in charge of them. Dixie was very curious about those big "dogs" and they were curious about her.

[calimac]

It would. Report after the event actually happens.

[calimac]

Yep. DreamWorks was in Redwood City then, and was delighted to learn that, when they needed a donkey as model, that there were two of them right down the road. So they visited to measure and videotape. Perry, the miniature donkey who arrived in 1996 and is still around, got the part.

[ranunculus]

I worked the very last event in Frost before it closed for renovation. There were rumors that a backstage tunnel would make loading in and out far faster and way safer than hauling gear over the berm.