One might think it is not such a big thing to prepare for a circus in the library. Not so! Erecting a tent without the help of elephants and with children underfoot can really be challanging. We had a little circus pop up tent..........seemed easy enough. We popped it open and proceeded to put the rods through the ........wait.........where EXACTLY DO the rods go? Okay. Now I get it. Georgia holds top of tent. Cynthia crawls in the tent. Georgia feeds the rods in to Cynthia. all seems to be going well when what to our wondering ears should appear but........................loud and very fast footsteps approaching and .............whoa..............................wait...............................oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Three little boys in snowsuits with snowboots lunge into the tent with Cynthia, who, by the way, managed the situation very calmly, unlike me, who above the tent was kinda freaking out!
The idea was to put the tent on top of the bookshelf. Too big. Or on top of a table. Too small. ORRRRRRRRRRRRRR maybe suspend it over my desk.Just right. Now....exactly how do we do this?
Let's try fishing line woven in a web.
Oh no We can't go over, we can't go under it...........oh no.......we'll have to go.....
wrong story. ...............what I meant was, when we got the tent on the fishing line web it was crooked and you could not see the whole tent.
Plan B...call in Elaine, our trusty maintainence lady, creator of many wonderful display items, bouquets, and master of solving all "technical" issues.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that's better.
Thank you for a hilarious post. Made my day!
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