I have volunteered
for the Corrida de Los Cabaillitos, the children’s race two days before the Caballo
Blanco ultra. Look at the photos that
Luis Escobar has taken and I bet you would too.
There is a boy running with gigantic strides in a bright red blouse and
a smile of satisfaction. The children
who race the 5k all get a bag of school supplies. I have sent out a few requests to departments
on campus and the response has been incredible, so incredible I fear my luggage
my consist of a few changes of underwear and the rest will be crayons, pencils
and pens. And the caballitos. I thought it would be fun to fold some
origami ponies to put in the bags as well I mean how many children could there
be? I figured that 100 ponies would be
plenty. Wrong. If the numbers on the Caballo pages are
correct the number is more like 400.
YIKES! I have been folding like
crazy but my Stitch and Bitch crew have come to my aid…sort of. They are an incredible group of women and I
would wish such good friends for you.
Barb offered her home and lunch, Dot brought wine and muffins, Joyce
brought home-made cookies. It was a
great afternoon, everyone tried hard and we made a few more ponies, drank wine
and laughed together. In the end there
was an assembly line of sorts; Maureen was good at the first folds, Barb had
the head and tail folds, Joyce made the whole horse and Dot filled in where
needed. During the folding we talked
about the race, Joyce offered to watch the horses, Barb offered Kaycee a place,
Dot offered her camera. They wanted to know
more about the people and the place. And
they took paper home to build more ponies.
Current count? 200 and folding.
Gary was down with
a pulled muscle and of course there was that winter weather thing. Yesterday he was back running and it seems
the pulled muscle is responding well to the workout. He is like a horse, keeping him confined can
be worse than letting him run…so to speak.
He ran about 6 miles. Today it is too cold, with the temperature
hovering around zero.
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