The program.

February 27, McAllen.

Now that I'm better I am trying to wrap up the Kelly Miller Circus 2010 program.
The good news is that we are so much earlier this year in putting it together; last year if I remember well it was April before anything hit the presses. The bad news is being sick and out of shutter shape I'm freaking out and feeling like a miserable failure every time I come back from the ring. I took a picture of Steve and Ryan the other day that sums it up nicely.
Today we did the group shot, my all-time favorite stress-maker, and it went much more smoothly than last year, not to mention the year before when I shot inside the tent and the result was predictably poor; third time's the charm.
On the home front here I can walk with the kids to the bookstore next door, our ritual of Thomas the Train Engine play with Dylan bringing me one book after another to read, a cookie thrown in for spice. Here as there we keep on reveling, not quite believing our luck, in Brian's royal treatment (he made shrimp pasta in an Alfredo sauce from scratch; it was to die for.) And we just enjoy the sun, and an ordinary circus life again, the routine of the shows, practice in the mornings, getting together at the cook house, fixing the trailer, the drone of the generator, getting to know your way around town, simple pleasures, circus life.