Tightrope!

Here is a better picture of us posing during Amelia's third performance of the Sword Suspension.

Today was a great day. The weather was perfect. Still trying to get used to no humidity. Our hands, lips and cuticles are all drying out. We've become accustomed to the eastern humidity.

Great news is our Tightrope. A little rig that stands 5' high and 10' long arrived today. Custom made for us. Though I think he made one for another act a couple of years ago. Everyone wanted to get on it and everyone did. Amelia, James and Miles are naturals and Nick is pretty good too. I sucked and my back ached all day for doing it. Mami was cute.

A pink gorilla (AKA Miles) strolls by as we assemble the rig.

It looks like I am doing well here. What you don't see is that I am next to the RV and one second after this shot I am holding the RV.

Mami loved it!

Olivia, with Nick's help made it across.

Jim was the first to get across with no help!





Look I seem to be a pro...........one second later......

Nick is looking good too... one second later....

The dog show people have started to help work with Belle for our show. Tomorrow she will help a bit more on training tips and technique. We want to make her appear then have her do a couple of tricks.

I promised to mention a few things we have planned for 2011. One is the tightrope with Miles doing lasso tricks, James doing some juggling and Amelia doing an old fashion clown and umbrella crossing with it.

We also plan a high slack rope which will some traditional slack rope walking and stunts plus flips and since it will be high a couple of cloud swing stunts.

We will be adding Belle's dog tricks more aggressively.

Miles will be zip lining down into the audience to open his whip routine.

We will be developing a loose story to the whole show and perform our standard show with a bit more glitz. New circus costumes fro most of us. And here is the big thing...we are buying a complete trapeze rig set up, nets towers, and everything. A few of us will be going to train this fall and winter and we buy the rig in the spring.

Mami and I went looking at motor homes again today. We found a fantastic one, a class A. We will see what comes of it. We are liking the double RV situation we have here at this fair. It even beats out hotels. Even if our FEMA trailer the fair is letting us use leaks, and has a million little problems the concept has been great and we have been spending more time together.

Our audiences are some of the nicest in the country....Kentucky still wins with Maine and New Mexico in for second.

I also received a bunch of bills from my home (my folks) today....guess what I am doing after typing this blog.....yup...bill pay on line.

Oh, I sold my stage so we will hand it over to the new owner ( a great performer and friend from FL) when we get to OK. It will lighten the trailer by 1000lbs. Since we are expanding the show dand getting a taller stage it just makes sense. And since he will continue to use it in great spirit the slae was easy. We still have 7 - 4' X 8' X 24" sections in Cali if anyone wants to buy those.

Well, I will cap it off here tonight and will spend more time on the fair and our continuing development of new stuff tomorrow. God Bless.