Kyle Turns 21 - Summer is Here - The Kids have Taken Over

Well, our sound guy/roadie/helper, Kyle Foster turned 21 today.  I asked if he wanted to try a shot of bourbon and he declined; if he ever drinks, he says, he will have his first with his dad....and that is the way it is supposed to be.   We celebrated with cake, ice cream, and presents. Wait, that sounds like the way we celebrate all our birthdays.   Hmmm, need to work on originality here.

Since Mami is down with tendonitis in her left bicep and a pulled muscle along her right shoulder blade (quite painful).  The kids have standing orders to not let Mami do a thing. But she cannot be let alone or she will start to find work so I was put in the room with her as her guard. I am also her sleeptime lean-to; to support her shoulder during sleeping she uses my chest as a wedge and we have slept basically looking very cuddly (and it was) but with practical purpose.  Personally its hard to sleep when someone is basically laying on you all night so I averaged 4 hours the last two nights. So today I was a little light headed.  A tea-totaler the sake we used to help relieve the pain and relax the muscle worked like a dream, and knocked her out like a dream.   She is quickly recovering the right muscle pull.    I tell you all this because that meant the kids had to do all the preparations for Kyle's celebration.

Miles was foreman, Amelia was cook, while Olivia and Vic Jr we grunts and dish washers.   Amelia wanted to get Kyle something she knew he would like and he being a policeman's son she knew doughnuts were the way to go.  Amy bought (with her own dough) a 13 pack of fluffy glazed donuts. (see how I got away with using both spellings for the pastry in question and even through in a pun?)   The family got him a multitool knife, pliers, saw, file, etc. etc and a foldable box cutter knife set.   It will come in handy always.   The kids also made a cake in the rice cooker for him (we have discovered the rice cooker makes the most moist and delicious cakes). Miles knew Kyle liked Snickers so the cake was a snickers encrusted cake. Amelia made Hamburgers from the grounded up meat of a guy named chuck.  (Ground chuck...said it on the label).  Oh, MIles also got Kyle his own coffee cup since he loves coffee but didn't have a cup.

Summer is here.  Last night a series of T-storms hit us. However, like all the storms this year as the dark red cells of the storm (pretty bad storm) approached us it split up or weakened to an orange or yellow level strom. Everywhere we have gone this year that is how storms have been approaching us.  Got and angel watching over us.

I suppose the weaker storms made the cycling group tent camping at the RV park happier than they could had been.   We have met a few and chatted with them a bit. During practice today a couple of them came over to ask about us and our show and take pictures.

Well, that rain and the temps going into the low 80s brought that old familiar humidity. Now it's beginning to feel like summer is coming.  

Jim booked us another one day filler show for the middle of June. So June is shaping up.

Next Tuesday we pull out for a week or so to head up to Toledo and Swartz Creek, Mi for shows.   We will d our big show at the Swartz Creek Hometown days and then a smaller fundraiser show at a Gymnastics Gym right afterward.  We were to do an amusement park or a single day following that but that fell apart, though we are searching one out to fill in that spot.

Cynthia is living in Ohio with her college roommate while looking for a job. She wants to end up in sports using her communications degree.

This is the mouth that tent caterpillar turns into that we talked about in an earlier blog.