Bettendorf Family Museum

This week Tiny Circus is at the Bettendorf Family Museum trying to trap a turtle. One would think it would be easy, but it involves braiding paper towel into a beautiful rope...

disguising kids as eggs to land perfectly in a GIANT basket...
This week Tiny Circus is at the Bettendorf Family Museum trying to trap a turtle. One would think it would be easy, but it involves:

Tucking tightly into a ball in the hopes of winning PLINKO...

feeding a number of rowdy and colorful chickens...

and leaning way back!

Yard is in

If you weren't looking forward to Summer Circus yet, maybe the new yard will get you going. After the lawn was leveled and graded away from the house, the trash and rocks had to be taken away. Then, the fresh sod was laid. Now, it's the best lawn in the world!


There's even a new parking lot for Circus vehicles to land.

While cleaning out the lawn, we found treasure. Old marbles, a bracelet, a 50 cent piece from 1917, a human tooth, and plenty of other little lost items were reclaimed in the proses. Its amazing what a old yard can hold.

The garden is coming along nicely as well. Every day the plants get bigger and bigger, and soon enough, they will make their way onto our plates.



The addition of a 5th bed will bring us cherry tomatoes, broccoli, and more greens.

Garden and Circus Preparations

We planted the last garden bed with more lettuce, kale, and cucumbers. Its delicate work planting seeds a quarter of an inch beneath the surface!

The onions are getting taller every day, and spinach, peas, radishes and lettuce are popping up.




Free lettuce. Already inches tall, these bad boys tower over the other plants.


The other big project... cleaning out the old Circus studio. We reclaimed a refrigerator and a dishwasher among many other great finds. Unfortunately, the last to leave summer circus 2.0 might have forgotten to clean out that fridge. In related news, Circus now has for sale some special aged milk and 2-yr old fancy prosciutto.


The reflection of the Circus House in the little airstream makes it look like a cartoon. Beautiful Iowa summer days, right around the corner.