Our local assisted living home (foremrly a nursing home, and yes, there is a differnece) has our show three or four times every year.  This is really convenient, as it is only three miles from home. The down side is, doing gigs there every three months or so can become routine and I can take the opportunities there for granted.  My show there a couple weeks ago, however, was anything but routine.

First of all, since we are still i the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, the show was outside with appropriate distance between me and the audience.  This allowed me to do a lot more juggling than when I'm in their activites room with its eight foot ceiling.  I took advantage of this fact to juggle fire torches, fire devil sticks and fire diabolo, along with a variety of other less flamable items.

But the thing that made it most spcial was that our oldest daughter, Jo, and our son-in-law, Sam were up from Texas for a few days.  They came to the show and were able to watch from an appropriate distance.  Although Sam has seen me juggle a little in the yard in visits past, this is th efirst time he'd seen a full performance.  I also took advantage of the opportunity to call Jo up on 'stage' to juggle machetes. What a woderful flashback to year past when this was a normal part of our show.

The best part of the show, though, was its last impact for the rest of the Texans' visit.  Sam was hooked, and wanted to learn juggling, diabolo nd devil sticks.  He and I spent a lot of time in the yard during the rest of their visit getting to knw each other better and teching him the family business.  I was even able to send him home with a bag of slightly used props.

Juggling just keeps being a blessing to me and our family. Who ould have known