Mile High Mids

DU Bally the White (and Purple)

“Who are you? Show yourself!”

“It cannot be. You were stolen!”

“Yes. From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with him, the Burglar of Stapleton. Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon Colfax Avenue.

Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time. The stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as a life age of the earth, or a Joe Scott offensive possession.

But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I’d been sent back — until my task is done.”

“Bally.”

“Bally? Yes… that was what they used to call me. DU Bally. That was my name.

I am Bally the White. And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.”

Non-Lord of the Rings version of the story: as you know, DU Bally was stolen in October. As a Christmas gift, my mom, back in Connecticut, offered to make me a new one. I sent her photos of DU Bally, which, as printed, apparently made his Pioneer crimson look purple-ish. :) Anyway, she made me a new Bally, and sent it to us in Denver. YAY!!

To make this development more exciting for my girls, I decided to place Bally in my Christmas stocking — er, that is, I left him out for Santa to place in my Christmas stocking, of course — and acted surprised when I got a new Bally on Christmas morning.

So, in conclusion, I am now probably the only person in America with a knockoff, bootleg Bally (to go with my official Season 8 Ballz, a.k.a. Mile High Bally).