So Gunther Gebel-Williams is dead. The circus didn't even come to Austin this year, hitting Waco, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth, but not us. The New York Times had the best obit. GGW said that the hardest cat to train is the housecat--can't be done. He never really left the circus. We were always watching him and not the act in the ring--he'd be out there in a boiler suit, wearing glasses, and no longer keeping his hair very blond, watching the big cats and elephants all the time. Last year he was limping and using a cane; he must have known about his brain tumor then. Today's our watering day, so we were up at 2 a.m., trying to get it all done, to meet the over-100 low-humidity day.