When I found out about the return of the In-Between Mare, my first reaction was “I can’t believe they’re actually doing this.”  My second re...

Hey guys. Long story short, I had an emotionally rough kind of day today, and I am not in the most… talkative mood right now. At least not i...

Star Wars tickets were successfully purchased, with a minimum of drama. And why yes, I am super-excited about the SPACE HORSES . The conne...

Another quiet and mostly offline weekend here, working on quilts; I finished one, and prepped a couple of others. I wasn’t so optimistic abo...

It’s amazing how much you can get done when your allergies leave you largely housebound. (I did make an exception for the flea market thi...

I sometimes joke – only slightly – that I’m allergic to the month of August. Judging from the way I’ve felt for the past three or four day...

Let’s see – the garden’s been abandoned, for now. I gave up on even starting the diorama yesterday. I’m tripping over almost everything in t...

Sometimes research hunches lead to big or significant finds… and sometimes, they don’t. This is a case of the latter, rather than the form...

Friend of Blog Ellen tipped me to this wonderful ancient Breyer History nugget, from the 1948 Sears Wishbook: The brown thing in the l...

Since my back has been really bothering me the past several days (it’s nothing serious, just a chronic condition that periodically flares up...

I’d thought that I had already discussed this topic here, but it appears I am mistaken. So here’s a slight rewrite of the article I wrote in...

I’ve had this picture for a couple of months now, and I’ve been wanting to post it here, but I haven’t quite found the right angle. But now ...

This is something of what I hope to accomplish with my archive, someday: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/4/9257455/university-iowa-fanzine-...

The Western Horse is one of the handful of Breyer-related topics that I defer to others; most of my research on Early Breyer History tends t...

(As I am in some considerable pain today because of my back - something I will be going to the doctor for sometime next week, so don't f...

(Well, THAT was an interesting BreyerFest. As I am currently unable to bend at the waist [more on that, next post], I'll just post the f...

Sure wish I could remember what brand of batting I used on the quilt I finished yesterday, because it felt like I was quilting through cardb...

The Seasonal Affective Disorder must be kicking in, because I’m feeling spectacularly unmotivated today. I haven’t even begun making one of ...

This cold is now starting to really tick me off. Normally I’d just sleep it off as much as I could, but I’ve got too much to do between now ...

One of these days, when I finally have the time to do it properly, I’m going to write down the stories of how I acquired each and every one ...