Fire Fire Fire

What a day!
We are at Calico Ghost Town and it's ghost Haunt time. We've been doing this for 15 years! Over those years the audience has watched my kids grow and the number of my kids grow. They have watched as our show developed and as we introduced new things. About 10 years ago we introduced fire-eating. Over those years we have yet to set anything that wasn't suppose to be on fire on fire at Calico. Well, today that would change. Over all those years hay bales have lined the stage and we have done the fire-eating routine without a single problem. But in the first show today we set two of them on fire. Water from our water bottles and a couple of sodas donated by audience members and finally our fire-extinguisher put it out. Nothing serious. In fact, the word spread and made the next show even bigger. Instead of being a bad thing it turned out to be the talk of the town and lots of jokes and ribbing came out of it.
By the second show we had removed all the bales of hay and the kids raked away any extra hay...mostly. wouldn't you know it the only area that had hay left on it was next to our sales table and setting on that hay was a cardboard box containing our skunks that we sale. And wouldn't you know it a spark from the fire-blow found it's way there and up it went. It too was quickly put out but my nerves were shot. So just in case for the rest of the show we soaked the area around the stage with lots of water. No more flames to deal with.

Earlier this summer we ran out of the crystal metallic wands I make for sales and give-aways. So I found a supplier of plastic traditional wands. Well, I discovered today the the dry hot heat of the Calico sun caused the plastic wands to soften and bend. Fortunately they could be reshaped and only a couple were lost to the sun. we keep them in the shade now.

We were visited by my aunt and Uncle who introduced Calico to us when I was a kid. Never did I think, back then, that we would be regular performers there. Aunt Lucky, Uncle Larry and Cousin Pam all came out. They always make a good audience. Uncle Larry was looking good having lost over 60lbs recently.

Miles, Victor Jr Amelia and I headed off to go through the haunted mine today but Vic Jr and Amelia chickened out at the last moment leaving Miles and I to go through alone. Smartly, we followed a couple in. Smart because they gouls and monstors in the mine would jump out to startle them and we wouldn't have to put up with screams in our ears and lights flashed in our face. That's a tip for all of you too.

Five shows today...4 tomorrow.