A clown, my son, stilts and a loft
The last few weeks have been crazy busy around here. My son’s birthday is during the last week in June, then the Oregon Country Fair comes the next week. For my son’s birthday I made him a loft bed for his room. I have been wanting to do this for a while now and it was fun to put on a tool belt again and do a bit of construction. Today he filled the shelves with all of his books and comics. It’s pretty satisfying work making stuff for my son, he now has a loft and two banjos. He prefers drums however and that is just fine with me.
I didn’t get to go to the Oregon Country Fair this year. But, through a friend of mine, I know folks who do stilt walking performance. I noticed that a bunch of those stilt walkers have some pretty bland looking stilts compared to the outrageous outfits they wear and the design of their stilts was a bit shabby. So, I came up with a design and I dyed them bright red. The first stilt walker I showed them to bought two pairs right off the bat. My friends are laughing at me saying that I’m the only one they know who can sell a clown some stilts. Well I did and he loves them. Jason Buffalo even went around without his costume a few times at fair he likes them so much!
