August 2, 2009

August 2, 2009
　
Last night just before we went to bed, Teddy struggled and staggered over to his litter box where he had his first bowel movement in a week. WOO-HOO ! WAY TO GO, TEDDY ! Gee ... I would never have thought that I could get excited about a cat taking a shit ! A few minutes later he staggered back to the litter box and urinated, then Joanne took him to sleep tucked into the crook of her arm where he slept peacefully all night. So peacefully that he didn't even wake up this morning when his bladder emptied. Oh, well ... I guess after 17 years, and with only a couple more days to live, Teddy's entitled to his first "accident".
　
Today was Riverside RV Park Resort's first Family Fun Day, organized by me, Joanne, and the other four members of the park's social committee. The first activity of the afternoon was K9 Agility, featuring Bo and Spencer. Yesterday we hauled all of Bo's agility equipment over to the orchard and set it up. Bo and his buddy Spencer have been doing agility every second weekend since May. I built most of the components of Bo's agility course, and purchased some. For half an hour we ran Bo and Spencer repeatedly through the course, cheered on by the small audience. What Bo lacks in skill he more than makes up for with enthusiasm. From the audience Fraser the West Highland White Terrier and Sugar the Yorkshire Terrier gave the agility course a try. Bo has now lost the distinction of being the only dog in the park willing to go through "small tunnel". Fraser did it !
　
Following the dog agility exhibition was a couple of hours of old fashioned children's games. Three legged race, sack race, balloon toss, that sort of thing. As the afternoon wore on and some of the children were losing interest, particularly the really young ones, I made balloon animals for them. And balloon hats and necklaces and swords and ... just plain old blown up balloons. Easy to please crowd ! As I was making a balloon animal for Georgia, a little girl about 3 years old, she was standing at my knees, looking quizzically up into my face and asked "are you Santa Claus ?" HA HA HA ... yeah, kid ... this is what Santa looks like when it's 100 degrees outside ! Later in the afternoon, after they were all hot and sweaty from playing games in the 100 degree weather, it was time for them to cool down with a pool party.
　
After the pool party and before the "cold foods picnic potluck" I performed a magic show. It was my final involvement with the Riverside RV Park Resort social committee. Discouraged and disgusted on an ongoing basis, Joanne and I have "resigned" from the social committee. My magic show went excellently and was well received. The potluck dinner was good.
　
Family Fun Day went well. It was well planned, well organized, well executed, and not surprisingly, not particularly well attended. Those who did attend enjoyed the day.
　
DSK