All this week Georgia & I have been looking forward to Saturday. Our family friends Donna & Rob invited us to their place for dinner with my sister & nieces. To my very pleasant surprise Lucy Loyal was also in attendance! Lucy worked with my dad on Carson & Barnes and let me tell you, Dad thought highly of Lucy; they were dear friends. He always spoke fondly of his time on Carson & Barnes and often mentioned the laughs that he & Lucy shared over coffee, at the cookhouse or in the back door. Donna & Rob served an outstanding dinner: pork roast, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls and capped the night off with a super bread pudding.
After dinner we had the awesome pleasure of watching a dvd Lucy brought over. It was made my her cousin and featured the entire circus history and heritage of the Loyal Repensky family. We all sat in speechless amazement at the tricks performed by these circus equestrian legends. Head to head on galloping horse back; a hand to hand flip on galloping horse back (a woman was the bottom mount); flip flops, one after the other performed flawlessly on galloping horse back by Zefta Loyal (my new circus heroinne). The whole night I kept thinking, how do you practice this?? And then there was Zefta's daughter Dolly, who at the age of 10 performed one of the best single trapeze routines I've ever seen. We all sat open-mouthed and watched as she opened her routine with a neck hang on the bar followed by a one-armed plange, and the blow off trick was swinging sliding heals!! Every performance was executed in absolute perfection...you had to see it to believe it. We all had a wonderful time and again, thanks for Donna & Rob for the good eats and to Lucy for the great entertainment!
"If you have to crawl on your bloodied hands and knees, you make it to the show." - Phil Chandler
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