my best summer
My best summer —
Was three months I spent on a small farm in Oregon when I was ten. Us kids did lots of unsupervised excursions into woods and meadows, threw rocks, milked a cow, rode go carts, climbed trees, organized a circus [it was a very small circus but I was in charge of costumes and trapeze stunts so it worked for me and also amazingly nobody died and those were real trapeze stunts], went crawdad hunting, churned butter, built interesting Lego contraptions, and I almost got eaten by surly pigs —
I was telling that story once, just like that, and Kitty said, Almost got eaten by surly pigs? I knew you didn’t get out of there unscathed.
Like I have ever gotten out of anywhere unscathed.
Silly Kitty.
But it was sure a good summer.
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I want more details about the trapeze show and the near death experience with the pigs.
Well I learned a valuable lesson. Never try to sneak through a 300 pound hog’s yard. Those hogs are light sleepers and way faster than they look.
I used to put on Magic Shows when I was a kid- and then I sold props at a Magic Store when I was in my 20’s- and a few years after doing that I started to study Mortuary Sciences.
Weird but true.
I want to see a picture of the small Max in a trapeze costume. I have a feeling my heart would get all soft when I saw those big dark eyes in that waif face with a pink spangled tutu fluffing below.
Oh there are no photos of the circus but there is a kid max photo: http://celluloidblonde.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/kid-max/