4th of July

This year Chautauqua was booked to be part of the Darrington 4th of July fair! We paraded with the parade, where we totally faux pas-ed and didn't throw candy to the kids! But Claymazing made it all better when he announced that candy was bad for you, but juggling is good for you! Thanks Clay and your traveling Shaza-ambulance troupe, the Emergency Circus!

Wren went even with his hurt foot!

 Chautauquins lined-up for lunch!

 This was Greg's first Chautauqua event. He helped set up my new aerial rig, and performed the hilarious acro comedy piece, Hanzel and Franzel, with Nate.

There were baby goats there.... this ones belly was so big.

 This one was all white... why are they so cuuuuuute?!?!

It was fun to see so many Chautauquins outside of tour. Great Job Karl for organizing such a successful and fun piece of the Darrington 4th of July fair! Afterwords, we shot off fireworks with Cosmo (our 6-year old neighbor).

 He helped set everything up.

 And I would light them.

Paula (of two-doors-down) snapped these photos. Wren, Margaret, Allison, and Rick supervised. It was super fun.

More on The New Old Time Chautauqua Tour 2013

Here are a few photo snippets from the shows. This first one is me MCing at the Lincoln Theater in Mt.Vernon, the jugglers around me are foreshadowing for the big juggle finale.

 This is the Reverend Chumley at our show, on his property Chumlyland (where we have been staying for the first week of tour), performing his "spiritual" key-bending act.

 The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Lincoln Theater (Amiel, Steven, Harry, and Rod).

 One of my favorite and funniest people, Sam Smyrdikov Williams Karamazov, performing his translation of "La Bamba" at Maritime Park in Bellingham.

 Another of my favorite performers is Pokie, performing his mime and hoop illusions act for folks at Project Homeless in Bellingham.

The Big Juggle! Wren has been organizing this the last two years, and boy is it awesome to see so many jugglers on stage at once!

 That's all for now, but more fun to come!

New Old Time Chautauqua Tour

This year our tour is in the Northwest along the I-5 corridor... Seattle, Mt. Vernon, Concrete, Olympia, Camano Island and more-idore! Here's a jumble of the goings-on of the tour, like Wren and I after roving at Bellinghams Project Homeless event.

 This is how our meals are served on Chautauqua... we're so lucky!

 Our friends and long-time Chautauquins Harry Levine and Anne Gavzer got married on tour this year!

Part of the swag they handed out was clown noses for the guests!

 I've been performing the Chair Dance for around 5 years now...

and this is my first injury from it... a pulled calf muscle. It's pretty hilarious to me, as the routine is extremely un-athletic. It's crutches for me for a while now... maybe an act will transpire...

Anyhoo, so far the tour has been super fun... I'll have more posts with photos from shows, etc. soon!

My first blog post!

My first post on my first blog! I love how fun and easy this was to start... I'm hoping to use this as a scrapbook journal type thingy to help me remember all the fun and beautiful things that happen in my life! To start, I will share a photo showing last months adventure (New Old Time Chautauqua - The group photo, Wren and I, and Chloe my favorite poop song dueter!)

And last weeks adventure at Oregon Country Fair! I was in two shows... Dream Science Circus and Stage Left... did my first trapeze routine (what?!) and performed for the first time on the Main Stage Midnight show (the chair dance! Thanks Tom Noddy!) with one of my favorite peeps, Sam Williams!

On the way home we stayed at Bobland where we got juggle to accordion played by and eat homemade bread made by Robin Schultz!  Then saw my folks and my dad's new hats he's knitted for the Jefferson County Fair! Hooray for fun, family and electronic memories!