Send in the clown

Aidan attended a day camp last week, which was run by the Hooter County Parks and Recreation Department. What a deal...he was gone from 9 am to 2 pm for five days and the facility is less than five miles from the house. I enjoyed a few hours of alone time each day and he had great fun.

It was called circus camp, but the time they spent on circus-related activities seemed to be very limited; they also did crafts (such as the lovely tie-dye shirt he is sporting in the photo below) and played outside. But supposedly they worked all week on a circus performance that was held on Friday afternoon.

On Monday, Aidan told me that he was going to be the lion tamer.

On Tuesday, he told me that he was going to be a lion.

On Wednesday, he announced that he was going to be a clown.

Thank goodness, he finally stuck with being the clown. The two ladies who ran the camp were very indulgent of his whims; as one of the youngest campers, he tended to spend more time with them and they said that he was always so sweet to them (apparently not to be said about some of the other campers - there seemed to be a few real tyrants in the making).

The performance on Friday was, well, lame. But the children seemed to have a good time, the parents and friends clapped politely and a good time was had by all - not too shabby.

Here is our little clown (or is it our little Groucho?):

Evelyn's scarf

Today I mailed a scarf to my friend Evelyn in North Carolina. She is one of the people who agreed to let me practice knitting by making her a scarf.

I used a 100% alpaca yarn called Atacama from a Chilean company called Araucania Yarns. The color is a teal/green/brown mix, which I think will suit Evelyn beautifully. The yarn feels lovely and knit very nicely.

The pattern is called Misty Garden, but I refer to it as the Misty Garden of Good and Evil scarf. I adore the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt and have read it four or five times. Berendt really captures characters well and each chapter is like its own little short story, but it all fits together well as a novel.


I even liked the movie version of the book; what is not to like about a movie with Kevin Spacey AND John Cusack? Come to think of it, I first saw the movie with Evelyn - how about that!

I think the scarf turned out very well and I hope Evelyn is pleased with the result.