Nicolas did the split last week, after practicing for three months.
Dylan is pretty close but does not quite touch the ground yet. Both are in for a present.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Split.
October 26, Hugo.
Nicolas did the split last week, after practicing for three months.
Dylan is pretty close but does not quite touch the ground yet. Both are in for a present.
Nicolas did the split last week, after practicing for three months.
Dylan is pretty close but does not quite touch the ground yet. Both are in for a present.
Sightings.
October 26, Hugo.
Somewhere on highway 70: "Show pigs."
And my favorite creek of the circus road: Muddy Boggy Creek, also on highway 70.
Somewhere on highway 70: "Show pigs."
And my favorite creek of the circus road: Muddy Boggy Creek, also on highway 70.
Home.
Here it is: a six o'clock call for the last jump, the home run to Hugo, no hurdles but short of a few people who left for other places last night, until next season farewell, and Dylan wakes up as we settle into our spot in winter quarters and says, "This is my favorite lot."
We're home for the rest of the year.
Last show.
Last show, last pictures, and the usual nostalgia for what's ending.
This was a good season for the Kelly Miller Circus, good weather, so little mud it could hardly be called a mud show, a quiet season, and we missed half of it but the boys are five and six and the circus is all they've known, and if this was our last season as a circus family I don't want to think about it, not now.
Last shows, goodbye and see you next year, I will cherish this circus family forever and ever, like a children's tale.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The end: the Halloween party.
October 24, Ardmore.
Last jump, last lot, last town, and the Halloween party.
We dressed Dylan and Nicolas as the Vazquez Circus clowns in their Martian act. They won second place. It was a great party, and the costumes were better than ever. The Loyal/Fusco tribe outdid themselves again, as the Flintstones family, complete with a Flintstones foam buggy.
Last jump, last lot, last town, and the Halloween party.
We dressed Dylan and Nicolas as the Vazquez Circus clowns in their Martian act. They won second place. It was a great party, and the costumes were better than ever. The Loyal/Fusco tribe outdid themselves again, as the Flintstones family, complete with a Flintstones foam buggy.
A trailer with a view.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Shower.
October 23, Pryor.
There was a baby shower for Natalia today in the big top. She is having another boy.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
A trailer with a view.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Columbia, finally.
October 17, Auxvasse.
In Columbia all day visiting schools and my friend Sally.
I liked the school with the poorest ratings the best, the people there, the feel of it; it added a science and math specialization and a new, gregarious and energetic principal a few years back.
I like that the school is named after an artist, Thomas Hart Benton, a muralist from Missouri who belonged to the Regionalist movement.
In Columbia all day visiting schools and my friend Sally.
I liked the school with the poorest ratings the best, the people there, the feel of it; it added a science and math specialization and a new, gregarious and energetic principal a few years back.
I like that the school is named after an artist, Thomas Hart Benton, a muralist from Missouri who belonged to the Regionalist movement.
Slowing down.
October 16, Elsberry.
My bad knee forces me to slow down, to walk slowly, and so the proverbial silver lining: I walk mindfully, carefully minding each of my steps, slowly, each step fully lived, like a Buddhist walking meditation, and I stop to think about that, and enjoy it.
My bad knee forces me to slow down, to walk slowly, and so the proverbial silver lining: I walk mindfully, carefully minding each of my steps, slowly, each step fully lived, like a Buddhist walking meditation, and I stop to think about that, and enjoy it.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Off road.
October 14, Washington.
We got a little lost on the jump this morning.
I figure we added about ten miles to the distance, but then again we got to see the rest of the construction around the St Louis freeways, which, like the ones in the Rio Grande valley, seem to be in a state of perpetual reconstruction.
We went to the St Louis City Museum last night with John Moss' family, and met Rebecca's family and Tavana's family there. No need to say the kids just adored it (but maybe not as much as we did.)
We got a little lost on the jump this morning.
I figure we added about ten miles to the distance, but then again we got to see the rest of the construction around the St Louis freeways, which, like the ones in the Rio Grande valley, seem to be in a state of perpetual reconstruction.
We went to the St Louis City Museum last night with John Moss' family, and met Rebecca's family and Tavana's family there. No need to say the kids just adored it (but maybe not as much as we did.)
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Practice.
October 12, Troy.
Rehearsals for next year's production have been going on all week, and Fridman's new act is coming together nicely, hours of daily practice paying off. The kids are still practicing too, and Nicolas is an inch away from doing the split.
Rehearsals for next year's production have been going on all week, and Fridman's new act is coming together nicely, hours of daily practice paying off. The kids are still practicing too, and Nicolas is an inch away from doing the split.
Bad news in latin.
So I have osteochondritis dissecans.
It's latin for "Sorry but your bones are dying off."
Or, my left knee started hurting badly last night and today I can't walk without limping.
It feels just like ten years ago, when my other knee was diagnosed with a rare disease that involves a list of scary phenomenons like reduced blood flow to the knee bone and detached cartilage and bone fragments. I had surgery and it didn't work. My right knee has been bothering me on and off all this time, and now it's the left, too.
Mulling this tonight as I try not to panic, and if I'm right in my self-diagnosis, it occurs to me that the first outburst of the disease happened as I was getting ready to move to California from Jacksonville and start a new job at a newspaper there, and that now is exactly one of these times again, a time of change and stress and its cohort of personal upheaval and emotional roller-coaster. If I am right and this is a recurrence of the disease then all my plans once again are up in the air, as I'll need surgery right away if I am not to walk through life not only being in excruciating pain at every step, but also not being able to work or care for the kids by myself.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Jacksonville again.
October 9, Jacksonville.
Annual visit to my former home town and "where Fridman and I met" town of Jacksonville, and a pumpkin and garden fresh tomatoes-filled day with our friends Steve and Tiffany. We stopped at Liliana's house and I almost gave her a heart attack; I thought she knew we were in town and it turned out she didn't: her face when she opened her front door.
Dear friends, dear memories.
Annual visit to my former home town and "where Fridman and I met" town of Jacksonville, and a pumpkin and garden fresh tomatoes-filled day with our friends Steve and Tiffany. We stopped at Liliana's house and I almost gave her a heart attack; I thought she knew we were in town and it turned out she didn't: her face when she opened her front door.
Dear friends, dear memories.
Monday, October 08, 2012
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