Enjoying a momentary respite here: the taxes are done, the seeds have been started, and (most) of the financial paperwork I wanted to wrap u...

Just passing through again today: I am elbow deep in some heavy literal and metaphorical stuff. (Actually, I’m using the literal stuff to av...

Apparently I was for sale on eBay ?  (LOL)  If I were to self-identify as a model horse, it’d be some type of heavy warmblood (Cleveland Bay...

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...

So this is why I’ve been a little cagey about my “Holiday Horse” customizing plans for the Western Horse: In addition to all of the...

It was a pretty good day at the flea market, all things considered: This wasn’t all of it, just the most interesting bits. (Looks like...

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...

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...

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

One of the things on my personal “bucket list” is attending Toy Fair. It’s not just about the horses (in general) or Breyers (in particular)...

Gah! So many goodies out right now – Gideon, Coeur de Lion, the Premier Club Shagya Arabian (a Shagya at last!) and now this bizarre Test Co...

In another forum and in pursuit of another nerdy passion, discussion turned to the quality and degree of worldbuilding in Max Max: Fury Road...

I told myself that eBay was for research, and for the picking up of obscure bodies (Still looking for that cheap Traditional Kitten. A Khemo...

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...

Nailed it! The next Web Special, Chamonix: Silver Filigree Ashquar! Interesting little detail worth noting: the hooves are a different...

Other than being "grullo" instead of Chestnut, here’s Gossamer! Sweet! I’ve already penciled him in on top of my BreyerFest ...

I haven’t been in the right frame of mind to do much speculating about What This Year’s Surprise Model Will Be. The current line of thinking...

Here’s a better picture of the Western Horse copy in that box lot. The current "flying nun" shape of the saddle amuses me: O...

I wasn’t expecting Halo to be the second Vintage Club release this year, as long time readers know by now. I interpreted Reeves words clever...