Every morning I wake up at 4:30, fix some tea, feed the animals, grab a muffin, get Christopher in gear, put on my "face",and pack a bag for the morning. I usually make sure Christopher has some breakfast, a snack or two packed and enough water bottles for his morning. Then its a drive to pick up his buddy and Nick. while the two of them are sleeping in the car and donning headphones with various tunes playing through MP3 players, I am listening to NPR with both hands gripped to the steering wheel trying to keep up with the various 80 mile an hour plus traffic on I85, the Durham Freeway , and I 40.
After an hour plus of white knuckle panic attack, we arrive at Cary Academy in Cary NC. The boys join 50 other ball players, both guys and gals, and work themselves to death with drills. The focus is not just getting better at the game, but also team work. These coaches are amazing with the tactics they use to get the players to move as a team, not just a bunch of individual players.
....I spend the next 2 hours from 7-9 as ME time. a good thermos of tea or a trip by Starbucks, perhaps another muffin(~smile~), my Bible, a good book, my crochet and a pair of walking shoes( I actually walk in my crocs and I must say my feet haven't hurt so far if I wear socks with them..granted a bit geeky, but it works for me)
...This morning I took my coffee and walked around the campus taking pictures of these really awesome horses. The are just fabulous and in this one you can just see a hint of the sun coming up over the horizon. I love things like this, not only the busy colors and patterns, but I also think about the process and am in awe of hte mind who can put the paint to these sort of things... horse collages..brilliant! I'm not sure where to get one, but I so think I need one in my front yard..they tend to be much to big to swipe like the pink flamingo stage I went through in the mid 70's... so, where does one purchase a fiberglass(???) paintable horse???
..The first thing I thought of when I saw them was the Horse of a Different Color from the Wizard of Oz....I tried googling a picture of it but couldn't find one
Here is the blip I DID find on it
Horse of a Different Color:
When Dorothy and her friends finally arrive at the Emerald
City to see the Wizard of Oz, the doorman is none too willing to let
them in. When Dorothy
tells him that she was sent by the Good Witch of the North, the doorman
asks her to prove it. The Scarecrow chimes in and tells him that
Dorothy
is wearing the Ruby Slippers that Glinda gave her. The doorman responds
by saying, "Oh, so she is! Well, bust my buttons!
Why didn't you say that in the first place? That's a horse of a different color! Come on in!"
Then Dorothy and her friends are picked up
by a cabby in a horse drawn carriage. Dorothy notices that the horse is
now a different color than when she first saw it and asks,
"What kind of a horse is that? I've never seen a horse like that before!" To which the cabby responds, "No, and
never will again, I fancy! There's only one of him, and he's it. He's the Horse of a Different Color you've heard tell about!"
MGM used
gelatin to dye the Horse of a Different Color its various shades. And,
rumor has it that they had a hard time keeping it on because the horse
kept trying to lick it off.
Something I did find was this a list of goofs from the movie... now I HAVE to watch it again ( for like the 50th time in my life..and no, I never get tired of it)...so as soon as I finish this post its off to add it to the Netflix list. But even more so, Now I have to READ the Wizard, maybe even all 15 books! I'll see if my library has this I'm sure Kate won't mind me taking a little break.
I hope you enjoy the horses... they really really are unique... and if any of you have a clue about the horse, even where one might purchase one if one's husband would allow it in one's woods ( I mean how cool would that be) let me know...
Enjoy the day!..all day long
