Casualties

Strange things lately. Maybe it's the Halloween season.

I'm missing a Palouse. Can't find her anywhere, I know I haven't sold her. Unless she's still boxed up from the last live show I went to (in March!). I'd swear she was just on the shelf, though. The only other idea is that Toddler Boy toddled off with her, but this place is small enough that she'd be hard to hide.

One of my small Hagen-Renakers (a common, recent one, luckily) turned up broken somehow. It's been packed in cotton and boxed up. I opened the box last night, and one foreleg is floating around loose. Joy.

And I managed to scuff one of the other Palouses last night. I was photographing the Palouse conga before I packed them away for safe-keeping (some of them are notoriously unstable), and put a nice rub on Iskitpe's mane. I saw what I thought was a bit of lint, tried to rub it off, and accidentally peeled off some paint. Never had that happen before. I hope it'll be fairly simple to touch up later on; it's in a variegated part of the mane anyway.

Yeah, yesterday wasn't a good horse-day.

New Stones

More new ponies! I got a box in the mail today, from someone who offered to pick up some of the Stones that Tractor Supply had on sale last month or so. Bless her for doing it. She found two Breeze ISHs for me - consecutive numbers, long mane/long tail versions. She said one was glossy and the other matte, but they both look about the same to me. Then, at a different store, she found an Arabian, Twist I think - $11 instead of the $5 that the ISHs were, but that's cool. PS doesn't seem to do "regular run" horses anymore; everything's a limited run, so they're all freakishly expensive.

A new Stone horse

Just got this guy in the mail yesterday.
He was a great deal on Ebay, $9.99 plus $10.50 shipping/handling. Of course, I'm trying to avoid Ebay, since the latest "upgrades" to fees and feedback. But, sadly, they get a lot of traffic, both from buyers and sellers.

Anyway, the PS woodgrain is really nice. The matte finish makes it look more like real wood; I've got a Breyer woodgrain (SM Andalusian from Breyerfest) that's more on the glossy side, and it makes the wood look a little more unrealistic.

New horses!

The mailman knocked on my door today, and left three boxes. Okay, one's for DH (my Valentine present), but the other two are horse-related.

The small box has my Hagen-Renaker mini Morgan stallion and mare, in a sooty-looking palomino. This is the second set that Ed sent; the first set went into the PO's Bermuda Triangle and still hasn't reappeared. But they're beautiful!

The big box is the 3 ISHs that I ordered from P.S. Cord - Pretty Consecutive, Andrea's Answer, and Definitely a Dunnit. Still have to pry them all out of the boxes, so pictures may appear soon.

Horses on the way

I've got a few horses on the way again. Ed Alcorn is re-shipping my palomino HR Morgan pair, since the first ones are lost somewhere in the postal system. Hopefully they'll surface at some point. And I got the shipping notification for my P.S. Cord order. They're having a sale, so I got three ISHs - Andrea's Answer, Pretty Consecutive, and Definitely a Dunnit. Hope they're nice ones.

The Stone company is getting a little outrageous, though. They aren't making any "regular run" type horses that I can see, just a lot of limited-run SRs with very high prices. From what I saw on their website this week, $90 seems to be the minimum for a Trad-scale model, and the smaller Pebbles and Chips aren't far behind. I can see why there aren't many CM'd Stone molds around anymore (other than factory CMs).

Pegasus & a Palouse

Two new horses in the mail today. UPS delivered my Pegasus


and USPS brought the Iskitpe Palouse I bought on Ebay last week.

Also, two new SMs from Target over the weekend, the red roan Peruvian Paso and the bay/buckskin (haven't decided yet) Highland Pony.

Plus, I'm spending the day working on a photo for the Picture Perfect contest. Having left it to the deadline and fighting with their sorry fence, I may skip the contest.

New Arrivals

Fed Ex delivered a box yesterday that I've been waiting a week for. Okay, not a long wait, but I'm not a patient person sometimes.

I bought a pair of Stone Palouses, two variations of Fiesta, the SR for the El Paso Equine Art show. One is one of 78 done in a satin finish with a blaze. The other is one of only 10 (*) with a matte finish and a star. Technically, she's one of 5, since 5 of the 10 were customized before the show. This one, so far, is my rarest horse, other than one or two customized models.