It was kinda nice though, sitting out this round. Even if I really had little choice in the matter.
I totally skipped out on all the Super Bowl brouhaha, too. We don’t "do" football postseasons around here. When your hometown team is the Detroit Lions, well, you know…
I did watch a couple of the commercials. The Chrysler one with Eminem was spot on: no talking smack about the "D," if you ain’t from around here! (They did anyway - I couldn’t believe that folks on some of the forums I lurk were claiming that the shots of Detroit in the commercial were "Photoshopped" to make Detroit look better than it is. Dudes, seriously, "Robocop" was a movie.)
Other than that, I had a nice, quiet weekend. Tried - and failed - to make some cookies (ate the leftover dough.) Finished up a couple of old quilt projects, and figured out how to draft another (a complicated Grandmother’s Fan variation.) I haven’t paid much attention to the horses, other than some board lurking.
I did make one recent acquisition I’ll talk about in much greater detail in a week or so; I want to spend a little more quality time with it before I post anything about it. (And the follow up to the molded-on tack discussion. I haven't forgotten, I just keep getting sidetracked!)
For no reason whatsoever, here’s a picture of one of my oldest and dearest test colors, a Classic Black Ruffian:
I got her at Model Horse Congress in 1986; Bentley Sales Company was having a silent auction for her at their sales booth. My winning bid was $40 - not a huge sum today but back then, and for me, that was a considerable chunk of change.
Yes, I was truly, madly and deeply in love with her. Still am, even if she isn’t all that different from a regular run Ruffian of the same vintage.
In comparison, the Special Run light flaxen chestnut Proud Arabian Mare that the Bentleys sold at Congress the year before went for $11.99. (I should have taken a picture of the box they were literally dumped in. Scary! Thank goodness they were totally cool with handpicking.)
If you did some digging in their factory-fresh dump bins, you could have lucked out and got some tests and recent SRs for even less - $6.00 Traditionals, $3.00 Classics, and $1.00 Stablemates. Most of them were a little dinged - they were straight from the factory, wrapped in a plastic bag and literally tossed in a box - so you really couldn’t complain.
4 comments:
What a lovely Ruffian! I don't care if tan hooves are only supposed to occur with white leg markings, tan hooves on an all-black body looks spiffy! :D
Oh, for a time machine so I could take some money back in time and go through Bentley's sale bins. That sounds like heaven.
They're going to have to figure out something to do if/when the Connoisseurs become online-only. This is RIDICULOUS.
Oh, I'd take a vintage test over any Connoisseur, ever. I love that Ruffian!
The last year I went to Congress we went to Marneys house and in her garage were several big cardboard barrels (you know,the brown kind w/metal rims) LOADED with models for the cheap! What fun it was digging through those. And yes, I got some out of the boxes too.
As for the online sales, may work for Breyer but I won't be there. I have better things to do than wait for a time to order a horse I may or may not get.
Personally I think this is going to ruin the fun of collecting for some, including me. At least when one mailed in for a horse there was the anticipation of getting chosen.
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