Jaxom_of_Ruatha

You're not alone. I'm right there with you! For someone whose greatest joy is learning, understanding how I was fooled is extremely satisfying.

It's a bit of a cliché that beginning magicians typically perform at kids' birthday parties (and at other small, intimate events). Accomplished magicians, of course, perform on stage in front of hundreds of people. If you were to go back and perform at kids' birthday parties again, what skills or knowledge you've gained along the way do you think would help most to make a wonderful experience for that sort of audience? Are there any skills you've developed along the way that wouldn't transfer, due to how different the environment would be?

Is there anything you can do to keep out undesirable plants, such as poison ivy, perhaps by planting something else that occupies that niche?