The Long-Awaited Etchie

After four years of being alternately etched and tossed in storage, at last, the poor body Trakehner has a new, and very handsome look as an Appaloosa Sport Horse.

Now he just needs the perfect name!

Nominated

I was nominated by Trail Blazer Farm for the Liebster Award. So thank you, Trail Blazer Farm! I don't have time for tagging other blogs, sadly, but I feel I should at least answer the nomination by answering the questions.

1. Who is your favorite horse, model or real?

Several years ago, there was a very special OTTB named Rain, who captured my heart. I miss him terribly.  

2. Where do you want to go, any world, any place, any time?

The reality where I have a permanent place to live, and a couple of horses.

 

3. Are you an only child or do have siblings?
I have one sibling and a lot of siblings.

4. If all of your models were real, which one would you want to ride, show, etc.?
Oh goodness...I'd need all of my dolls to be real too, to help me feed all those horses! Uh, hmm. I suppose if I had to pick just one horse to be my personal horse, it would probably be Rubicon. I would also love Rose, because she's so cuddly!

 

5. How did you get started in the hobby?

Model horses? I've had toy horses since I was a baby (if original My Little Ponies and She-Ra horses count) but Breyers, I didn't have until I was old enough to buy them myself, because my mom said they were too expensive and breakable. I was always sort of peripherally aware of them as these unreachable treasures.

 

6. Who was your first model? Rocky. I found him at a second-hand store.

 

7. What was your best model purchase? How do I determine best? 0o I love them alllll. They all have their own stories. The cheapest one I bought was Flik, for $1. He was a 3 legged body at a different second-hand store and I rescued him from being thrown in the dumpster.

 

8. What's the worst thing you've ever bought? Breyer-wise? Probably the Breyer Dressage Rider. She fell apart as I was trying to remove her from the packaging.

 

9. Favorite tv show? Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

 

10. What is your least favorite Breyer mold, horse, and color? Least favorite mold: Running Stallion. Least favorite horse: "Wing Commander" least favorite color: palomino

Old and New...ish.

I had the opportunity this past week to visit a local museum. There were saddles in the basement! There wasn't much lighting, and the only camera I had was my cellphone, but I tried to get what reference photos I could. This saddle was small, but it had a really deep seat. The stirrups were missing. It didn't have any info on it, but it did have a rifle case.

There was also a tree...

And several sidesaddles from the 1800s!

 

I may go back sometime and take my real camera.

The other thing that I did is visit an antique store. There was some tack there, too. Mostly stuff that was beyond hope of repair. I found a white mechanical hackamore that looked pretty gnarly, and a presentation halter with silver. But what I took home was a humble-looking dirty leather halter.

 Which turned into a nice, clean, fairly decent and barely-used-looking leather halter!

Overall, it was a pretty good day!