Happy Little Farm 2019!

WooHoo! This event is the Circus Guild's FAVORITE event of the year! Happy Little Farm owners, Casey and Shelley, host this delightful potluck they call "The Giver by the River" that includes square dancing, music, great food and drinks, kids everywhere, and circus. Here's what the circus portion of this great event looked like this year.
Acro Cats, Chipp and Sadye!

Dream Frohe on the lyra.

Former guild member Ariel.

Daniel wooing the kids with his bubbles and contact ball.

Some of the many happy kids enjoying the circus antics.

The Bunion Sisters, Sadye and Heidi.

Our wonderful hosts, Casey and Shelly (with son Willoughby).

Wren and I performing our "Turn Around" juggling act as Cupids.

Justin Credible performing his hat, cane, feather, and suitcase act.

Keelia! Performing at the Giver for the first time!

Sadye and I as the hot dogs, doing our onion juggling act.

Chipp performing his almost-annual, back by popular demand, Banana of Delight. Introduced appropriately as, "Once you've seen the banana of delight, you cannot un-see it". This year, Shelley was the brave banana lighter.

This photo captures the effect of Chipp's intro for me perfectly.

The cast, including Shelley!

We can't wait for next year!

My Circus Valentine 2018

The 8th almost-annual My Circus Valentine show!

This year, Sadye and I performed our first Hot Dog act, as the beginning of an adventure to put an entire Hot Dog show together as a duo called, The Fun Bags!

 In this act, we are two lonely hot dogs who meet and fall in love, then one dies, and the other is so sad, she dies, then the first one comes back, then dies... on and on as the lights fade out.

Wren and I were cupids, juggling glow clubs to the song "Turn Around".

Here, we're just two goofballs in the photo-booth!

 The Cast!

Don, Chipp, Wren, Jill, Lara, Me, Jody, Eve Diamond, Laura Burch, Heidi, Terril, ..., Sam, Dream, PJ, Jess, Daniel, Sadye, Kat, Anneka!

 The Cast and my parents!

 And the man who makes it all happen, photo-booth creator extraordinaire, Jeff Lefferts!

To see previous years' photos check out Jeff's facebook Page HERE!

My Circus Valentine 2017

This year, Wren and I created a ball juggling routine set to music and rhyming lyrics we wrote about love. It included me in tear-away pajamas, and Wren doing solo amazing ball juggling, ending with us ball juggling together.

I performed my Hands of Time act, having adjusted it to fit the theme of Love.

This amazingly talented and hilarious guy was in our show...Ezra.

Mom and dad were there, but we never mad it into the photobooth together, but Wren's mom did with her lady-posse!

The aerialist ladies also made it in...

The beginning our Sadye's and my love of being Hot Dogs is captured here.

 Anneka and Dream and I were lucky enough to get a photo with Lucas Hicks and his wonderful mom, Glenna.

 Somehow, the entire cast made it into the photobooth!
(Laura, Jules, Terril, Jess, Daniel, Sam, Dream, Jill, Esther, me, Wren, Sadye, Anneka, PJ, Don, Chipp, Heidi, Lara)

 Thanks to Jeff Lefferts and Lindsey for making the photobooth happen every year. We love it!

To see previous Valentine's day photobooths, check out Jeff's Flicker site!

Circus at the Co-op Annual Party

The Circus performed for teh Annual Co-op meeting and party. Chipp even got in the newsletter!

We ambiented,

we performed for the kids, and got this sweet photo!

What a fun night (with Chipp, Terril, Wren and Jules)!

Bellingham Alive Magazine

We were in it! I'm right under the gray arrow.

Teaching Circus at Mt. Erie Middle School

Wren and I finished a month of teaching circus.

Two groups of Elementary school kids.

Monday through Thursday.

One hour each day.

Plate Spinning.

Cigar Boxes.

Devil Sticks.

Unicycling.

Rola Bola.

Kendama.

Juggling.

Diabolo.

Ropes.

Hats.

Poi.

!!

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Barnum and Bailey Circus

Wren and I went to see the Barnum and Bailey Circus with our friends Rod and Saxtor.

I enjoyed the tiny dogs on tiny horses a lot. There was a musical chairs with volunteer kids that was the funniest thing. The finale with motorcycles in a circular cage with two ladies in a two -high was probably the most thrilling.

When we rolled up, there were protesters outside claiming animal cruelty. It was hard to fully enjoy myself thinking they may be right. I wikied B&B, but it's so hard to know the full truth. I sure hope that these animals are being treated well.

Subdued Stringband Jamboree 2014

This year we were part of the Stringband Janboree! It has been over 3 years since I've been, and boy, what a time we had. Here we are at our camp via Vince!

The Circus was in full force this year at the Jambo, performing somewhere everyday, at least once a day. Wren and I got to perform our rope and high-five act...

 teach juggling and rope tricks, and I got to learn a teensie bit of how to play my accordion!

 Chipps was there and performed, taught a workshop...

and MC'd the circus show!

 Justincredible was there, performing and playing.

Jason Quick was there juggling balls, plungers, and bowling balls, and being his charming, hilarious, talented self.

Vern and Fallon were there performing their super awesome ball juggling act.

 The Jollies were there juggling fire along with Chipps, and Don.

 Dream and Greg were there with their funny, funny aerial act.

 Laura, Chelsea, Esther, Jen, Jenny Atomic were also there performing.

And an all-time favorite band of mine, the Gallus Brothers played. Along with Rattletrap Rucus, Skitnik, and the Crow Quill Night Owls. It was awesome.