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| Photo by Grady Taylor |
Carol and Gail got a little carried away this year, starting with the idea of being intertidal invertebrates, and ending up
becoming entire ecosystems! Damn, don't we look good, but making these costumes took longer than we planned.
Thank you to Color Creek Fiber Art for a fun evening dyeing our beautiful blue fabric "water", Dora Sigurdsson for the slogan on our banners "Make Anemone Your
Friend", and Grady Taylor for helping stuff the tentacles and living amidst piles of tidepool materials for a very very long
time.
 
The race was on Sunday morning. These photos were taken early morning Saturday. Gail thought a week would be plenty of time
to sew six anemones, not calculating she would have to piece together 102 pieces of stretchy fabric, each cut out individually
to make the ridges anatomically correct. It wasn't until Friday that Gail realized she would have to stuff 132 exam gloves
(660 fingers!) with polyester fluff to make enough tentacles. Strangely enough, the day-glo spray paint did not dry properly
in the unheated garage when Gail applied it at 5 degrees below zero Fahrenheit at midnight, so here she has brought the gloves
into the bathroom to dry. What she doesn't know is that they would stay forever tacky, leaving green glowing spots on her
sewing machine cabinet, hands, and other places still being discovered.
Carol had told Gail, "I'll take care of the starfish." Gail thought Carol would make four to six starfish. Carol
had other ideas, and made at least sixteen, maybe more. Carol had been up until 2 am stuffing starfish with polyester fluff,
as well as creating barnacles out of egg crates, fabric, glue and spray paint.
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Carol skis in great form, considering we had both stayed up until the wee hours again, attaching our tidepool creatures and
the water to our simulated rock bodies.
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| Photo by Larry Boyle |
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We chickened out and hid in the bunker until the last minute before the race, and were therefore not in the newspaper or on
television this year. Carol said "Anemones wish to remain anomonous." However, "The Alaska Nordic Skier"
magazine featured a full color photo of us in the bunker in all our invertebrate glory in their March 2004 issue, page 10
(the centerfold!).
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