Kelly Lake, Oconto County Wisconsin

It Can Be a Circus Down Here!

General Posts, Roger and Shirley's Florida escape!

Driving his semi down the road at the end of his day, the driver spots a fellow trucker disabled along the roadway. Carefully he pulls up and off the road behind the the forlorn driver.

“What’s up… anything I can help with”, he said with best intentions.

“Doggone, wouldn’t you just know it’s my luck.  This thinginy-jig seems to be leaking something; looks like I’ll need a tow truck”, wiping his brow with a dirty rag.  “You know, there is something you can do!  I have this load of elephants to take to the Ringling Brothers Circus.  Are you empty?  I’ll give you $500 to deliver them!”

“Ya, sure I’m empty, but how ya proposing I get those elephants from your trailer to mine”, scratching his chin and looking at the rocking trailer of unsettled elephants.

“Oh, heck, ya just go in there, find the biggest elephant, kick it in the butt and it’ll follow you; the rest will follow it!”

“Seems simple enough”, said the helper, “gonna have to climb something to kick that high!”, he said scratching his head.

“Just climb up on a shorter elephant and kick the big one like it was a pigskin going through the uprights”, exclaimed the driver.

With no further ado, the helper did just that.  Sure enough, the biggest elephant turned in surprise, yielded to the kick and followed the helper with all the others trailing behind; trunk on tail; all the way into the trailer.

Well, later that day the helper was headed back when he spotted the disabled trucker still sitting alongside the roadway.  Pulling over, the helper asked what was wrong.  The driver said help was on the way:  “Did you get the elephants to the circus?”, the still forlorned driver asked.

“Oh, sure”, exclaimed the helper.  “  I still had money left over, so now I’m taking them to a baseball game!”

I know… enough, Roger!  With that shot at humor, it leads me to a tour we took of The Ringling Brothers Museum and grounds with mother Monday.  It’s about 15 minutes from us in Sarasota.  I had no idea of the wealth, opulence and palatial acreage John and Mable Ringling acquired (see http://www.ringling.org/).  We spent a couple hours touring the gardend, the mansion on Sarasota Bay and the walkways around the prestigious site.  Here are some photos Sirley took:

Click to enlarge; then, click again on each.

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