Alley Meeting

I found this scarf with a straw sun visor around the house...we must have acquired it in 1958 in Spain. It hides my balding head pretty well. I figure most of my hair will be gone by the end of this week. I also found another wig and when I tried it on and combed it, it looked like Justin Bieber's hair...egads! So, I fluffed it a little and put on my brown felt derby and I looked more like Harpo Marx. I will need to work with the wig. It is a mousey blond color.

I was able to go to the Clown Alley meeting last nite. Tuesday, the 28th. It was really great being around my clown friends again. After a short business meeting we all took turns sharing a gag or two. Wally was first. He clowns at Childrens Hospital and had a Bucket of Fun. He pulled out one gag after another and they were all hilarious!
Lullabelle did a magic rope trick and used Patch as a volunteer. Clare the Clogging Clown did a pantomime of a chinese woman washing her laundry. Funny Bones...oh yes, Funny Bones brought me to the meeting, since I can't drive anymore. He was also nice enough to bring Good Grief with us ! Anyway, he does quite a bit of Christian clowning and he showed us some magic tricks that he does at the Church functions. Zilcho also did a rope trick. He likes to work with rope and usually it is a rope Pet that he works with. That is what he did last nite. He had taught his pet rope to do some tricks and it was part of a Christian ministry act. Patch volunteered to assist many of the clowns, and I think he also did a gag. Something to do with a paper towel. I showcased my walk-around gag with a clown fish Nemo look-a-like that is stuck in a lense of my glasses. It apparently is irritating my eye and it takes awhile to figure out that it is not actually in my eye but in my glasses. He was supposed to be in a plastic bag, so when I pull the bag out of my pocket to see how he escaped, I find Willy the Orca halfway through the plastic bag. Evidently, Nemo was trying to free Willy.
Mickey did a magic trick that he had predicted some 50 years ago when he was ten years old. Apparently he had written on a piece of paper that he would perform the trick on Feb 28, 2012 and would meet a woman named Roberta Del Mundo and he also predicted which card she would select from a shuffled deck of cards. The message had been sealed in an envelope for 50 years and when Patch opened the envelope and read the prediction that had come true...well, it was astounding and humorous...except for the little part where he flubbed the name of the woman---much to Mickey's consternation.

I presented Mickey with a Drum Major Baton that I had invented and worked on all by my lonesome over the course of several months in my Secret Clown Laboratory. I hope that he uses it for some of our parades this Spring, Summer and Fall. I added a horn to it in case he forgets his silver whistle. I thought it was put together well...but then, I did make it...
So, it was great to be with the clowns again !  I am sure that I left someone out of this story line, but I will just have to rectify that in a future post.
So far, this past week I have been able to control my pain...but, I have had severe fatigue the last couple of days. I am ready for another round of Chemo though. I should be having it this Friday. I asked Buttons if she would come and visit me as she is a Kettering Hospital Clown, but she wasn't sure if clowns were allowed in the chemo-therapy ward of the hospital. I guess I will find out soon enough, as I plan to go to my treatment in full Clown Regalia...minus the makeup....the chemo has a tendency to cause rashes and it also might be confused by the clown makeup and attack it. I would hate to have a splotchy face to go with my bald pate !

That's all for now...Life is Good, Life is an Adventure !