This year was my first at seriously growing roses. It has been a learning experience. I suspect that I didn't provide enough water or fertilizer for the bushes because they mostly seemed to struggle in the heat of summer. This potted rose tree was an exception. It continues to bloom spectacular orange roses. The lovely Mrs. Sneed and I went downtown to see Cirque du Soleil-Saltimbanco. We had a really good time. I love a traditional circus, sans lions and tigers and bears. The performers were amazing in their skill. Mrs. Sneed especially liked a bicycle performer, who entertained us with his ability to make his bike one with himself. I enjoyed all of the performers, and I was particularly impressed by a young juggler. At one point he juggled seven balls. A little known fact is that Merle Sneed used to juggle, although the high point of my juggling career was the ability to juggle three quart bottles of Pepsi. I could juggle four balls once upon a time, but seven is incomprehensible to me. In order to juggle seven, five have to be in the air at all times. That takes unbelievable hand eye coordination and years of practice. We also celebrated Younger Son Sneed's 32nd birthday this evening. Daughter Sneed and her family joined us. Oldest brother and family were not able to make it because of the demands of a new baby. Even though we were only six, rather than ten, but we ate like a family of ten. It was the only fair thing to do. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky