Almost Done in NY

It is cold out here in Upstate NY. The days are warm enough..upper 70s low 80s...but the nights....whew doggie!

Make for pretty mornings with misty mountains and crisp air though.

We are missing Cynthia but have gotten a couple of calls from her. She and her cousin are down in KY, got caught in Lexington Traffic. Being from Cali I can't imagine it being too terrible.

Olivia is on a fast mend and doing well. She performs in big black socks and her story only further adores her to the crowd. She had a second bout of bad luck today when her thumb got caught in the Rv screen door jam. Nothing broken but it smarted and the door latch was broken during the rescue attempt...another visit to camping word I guess.

Titus is getting more and more stage presence. He is smiling more on stage and the audiences love him.

Our audiences this week have been small and on the older side. But today the families started showing up and the crowds were bigger. A family from Long Island who vacation out here who we met at and antique store a couple of days ago showed up to the fair and came out to support our show. Nice!

We filled the tent. The location of the entertainment tent could be worse for any fair. We are located right next to the old tractor displays where they are constantly staring up the old beasts during the various shows. Also just behind us is where the various motor event vehicles line up and test start their vehicles. Some are off the charts loud. It' has been insane dealing with them. It frustrates both the entertainers and the crowds. I noticed an area in the middle of the grounds that the new tractor vendors use to sell their products. It would be perfect for the tent and moving the new tractors next to the old ones would be logical.
Miles in a rush to put a prop away (he is always to trying to break his record for cleaning up) broke the snake's cage. Buttercup is spending the night in a tote. Uncle Bill ran down to a Wal-mart in Scranton (he had business there) and picked us up a new one. Yes he was in the cage at the time but he was unharmed.

Since Eddie was the guy who influenced me to do fire eating and Miles learned from me we have doing a triple fire blow each night. The crowds go nuts and it is beautiful....and hot!

Titus loves watching Uncle Eddie do his five dead fly routine. He laughs and laughs.

As far as the fair goes to day was demolition derby day and quarter horse show day. So a lot of big vehicles and trailers moving around. The quarter horses are outrageously beautiful.

I mentioned in yesterday's blog that my video blog will have a new entry. But the connection here is so bad that the video uploads take hours so we will post them next week.

Mami has been nailing her juggling routine and we get lots of comments about how nice it is to see a whole family performing a clean show together. God is good. It's grueling sometimes...not the easiest job in the world. But We are having a good time. One more day to go then we are off to Maine. En route we will pick up Mami's niece, Sayako, who we will train for Cynthia's tricks. But she could never replace her.

By the way, Nick found some sad music so each time I tell the audience the story of Cynthia moving off to college he plays it. So I am obligated to milk the story . It gets a ton of laughs.