Well, today was quite the adventure. I started out the day with a 6 mile paddle to pick up trash along one of the local waterways. Trash pickup is fun, because the people who do it are great people, but it’s also depressing when you see the stuff people fling our their car windows, or leave behind when they visit the water. It never ceases to disappoint me, when I see how thoughtless people can be.

My next project was to push ahead with the excavation phase of a new mudpit I’m constructing in the back yard. This new mudpit will be broader, but not as deep. The purpose will be for filming scenes like mud wrestling, bondage in mud, falling into mud, and anything I can think of where we don’t need or want deep mud.

In the pictures below, you see where I left off today. I still have some more digging to do, then there will be a liner, and finally some kind of clay mixture will be used to fill it up. I intend to landscape it so it looks natural. It’s in a nice, wooded setting where it will be easy to set up a camera, lights, or whatever I need for shooting.

I know, it doesn’t look like much, yet. Stay tuned for progress reports!