The Weekly Update of The Kent Family Here There and Everywhere.

We just finished a mini five day tour that included us setting our circus show up (trapeze and all) at a school in Marysville, CA and do a single 90 minute show. (That one lead to an invite back next year.) We then drove to Livermore to be a part of the Wine Country Festival; that went extremely well with invites to further events in Livermore. Then we started a three day Christian program for Kids in Paradise, CA.  That was all day Sunday, and then the evenings of Monday and Tuesday. We snuck a show in for a senior center in Yuba City (A repeat customer) which was a lot of fun. We took the poodles and a bunny so that afterwards the folks there could pet our pets.
On Monday we were able to sneak a trip to the Lake Oroville visitors center where once a month they have a program for homeschoolers. This week was the final for this season.   The girls were even able to rush off over to the church for girls choir practice.
On Wednesday I planned on staying in bed all day and recover from sun and wind and show burn. You know that exhaustion from going from a slow spring season to a busy summer season....the first couple of weeks kills.  But instead we went to the free event at the Historic Chinese Temple in town and had tea and cookies while we toured the place. Chinese played an important part of Oroville's early history, in fact, it's birth. The kids and Mami went to the AWANA Banquet that night. That was the closing program for this season. Olivia got a plaque for finishing a book this year.
This morning the girls went to White Cross. That is a program where women from our church make bandages for folks in poorer lands.  Amelia and Olivia love to help and the older women love to see them there.
Jim had his weekly radio show in KVOR 91.1 on Tuesday.  We listened to five minutes of it as we drove home from our last night at the Paradise Church program.

Tuesday was also Mami's Birthday...she will be older than me for a little under a month. Yesterday the kids and I gave her 5 bottles of Kim Chi. some berries and other food goodies....she is not a jewelry person (thank God)...food makes her happy. This Sunday we will celebrate for real.

Below are the pix of the week. I've included pix from Cynthia and Miles at college.  They finished with finals. Cynthia has to wait around to the end of the moth for the National Championships for track and Miles is taking some summer classes. We will meet up with Miles in June and Cynthia in August. She is interning at a camp in Michigan.

 Visitor center program. The younger kids (olivia) made a treasure chest or jar and the older kids did a power point program. Theirs was about foraging.

 A kid from the Church in Paradise did a trick for us.

 Our stage in Livermore

 Anti Monkey-Bott on the move

 Forgetful Bear meeting and greeting.

 Jim balancing Excalibur.

Circus at a school 

They called this a junk food party...but there is milk.....kids today!?


For a few months I thought I was just being lazy because all i wanted to do was rest. Then i took my yearly physical and blood test and it turns out I am a little anemic with low-t and slightly high cholesterol. Whew, in a way that is a load of my mind I thought I was suffer the onset of depression or just laziness. So now bacon is but a dream, iron tablets, b12, oats, grains, nuts and fish is on the menu in quantity (what am  I a bear?) and no alcohol. My energy should be up enough to handle the tour.