Christmas in the Candlelight by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2023-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The filming of the promo segments the previous day seemed to go as well as anyone could have hoped, given the situation. Tanner did a great job standing in as the male lead. The script was rewritten so Tanner never had to say a word; he just stood there looking handsome while someone, usually Georgia, said her spiel while seeming to enjoy all of the fun activities the inn and the town had to offer.

As for Georgia, she seemed to have found a way to put the worst of what was happening off to the side. I watched the cut and edited copies of the promos with the television crew when I’d returned to the inn yesterday, and I had to say that the sleigh rides, bonfire, snowman building, and marshmallow roasting over an evening fire would have had me wanting to spend the Christmas holiday in Holiday Bay if I didn’t already live there.

Today was the filming of the actual cooking segment. Georgia had asked Amy to participate as her assistant for the filming. I could see that Amy was thrilled to be given the opportunity. In terms of providing extras, Reno had invited the guests currently staying in the cottages to attend a “pretend” Christmas dinner at the inn. I wasn’t sure that I’d want to spend most of a day filming a Christmas special if I were in the area on holiday, but Georgia assured me that when she’d made the offer to our guests, each and everyone seemed thrilled to have been given the chance to be on TV.

As for me, I’d elected to stay close to home but well out of the range of the cameras. Like me, Jeremy and Haven had requested to be left out of any film that was shot that day, while Annabelle, who was thrilled with the opportunity to be in the spotlight, had been given permission to stay home from school to be part of the filming. Of course, most of Mylie’s lines were delivered the previous day during the filming of selected activities on her annual activity list, but Reno had been so happy with her work that he’d asked her to narrate a few scenes for today’s filming as well.

“It’s really coming down out there,” I said to Jeremy and Haven, who’d stopped by to check in with me once they’d cleared all the drives and walkways. They looked frozen to the core, so I encouraged them to warm up by the fire while I made them hot beverages and a hot lunch before they returned to their grueling chore.

“I’m afraid that you’re both going to be busy today. It will be important to keep the main drive clear, and the walkways between the cottages and the inn will need to be shoveled and deiced as well.”

“I guess a storm like this is the main reason we decided not to rent out the cottages during the winter in the first place,” Jeremy reminded me.

“It is. And it was a risk to reserve the units through New Year’s.

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