A hug and special thanks to the Brown family for housing me and my teammate, Dale Tye. They gave us gifts…. these things called Ugly Dolls. Each doll is ’special’ in its own way (read, ‘Nutter’) and they characterized each one of us on Hub, giving us who they thought we were. The kids were darn close! It was the sweetest thing.
I googled Ugly Dolls and found this, “Contrary to popular post-millennial opinion, being ugly is not always a disadvantage. Because despite today’s image-obsessed media, ugly sells. In fact, we reckon ugly is the new beautiful. Why else would physiognomically- challenged multi-millionaires such as Mick Hucknall and Andrew Lloyd Webber be such babe-magnets? Apart from the millions of pounds thing, of course…The point is, what one person considers ugly, another considers beautiful. With this perennial dichotomy in mind, we’ve been on the lookout for something that’s fabulously “ugliful” (yes, we made that word up), and wouldn’t you just know it, we’ve gone and found a complete tribe of them!Uglydolls are a bunch of quirky, colourful characters that have taken the US by storm. Disappearing off the shelves faster than you can say “Cabbage Patch” these huggable, limited edition creatures have created a frenzy of excitement Stateside, and are now set to do the same thing across the entire globe…” You can even Wikipedia the cute lil buggers.
I was given Peaco.”Peaco is very shy, on the outside; on the inside, he is a wild man (you can see it in his eyes)….” The story about Peaco is that he is shy until he does what she loves the most which is DANCE….Nancy, our host mom and new buddy, had to add in that Peaco sometimes drinks to get un-shy.
In any event, The Browns were great and exemplify one of the things I love about being on the road and racing. I’m set to head to the Southeast Series in Georgia at the end of April next. Back on the horse, then, eh?
ugly and proud,
BB