Tumbleweed Crossing

As I have stated in a couple of previous posts my family, at least on my mom side, were rockhounds and my granddad was actually a prospector...

Well, the US Post Office has been up to their old tricks again. That is not getting the mail where it is supposed to go ---- ON TIME. On Feb...

Lee is putting in a new walk way by the hay shed. When we built the shed we found that that area was a big mud pit when we had one of our ra...

I never make a guess at what I might find when out on the desert. We have found all kinds of strange things - lots of beer cans and beer bot...

This is an arroyo bank that the weather and rain has been working on for - well I have no idea how many years. The arroyos can be cut out in...

While we were out I found a juniper tree that had almost been uprooted by the rare rain storms that cause flash floods down the arroyos. Beh...

I've had the flu for the first time in 8 years. YUCK. I had forgotten how horrid it is to be that sick. With no warning I got up the oth...

Yes, the photo below is a photo of the button that I got when I joined the Black Stallion Club in the late 1950's. There is a pin on the...

Raising Rainbow let a comment about horse books and I haven't even mentioned them yet. I have lots of horse books from a Roy Rodgers boo...

As a little girl I always wanted a horse but couldn't have one. So I took to collecting model horses. Since my dad was in the Air Force ...

It isn't just small china, or plastic horses in my collection. Here are three other examples. There was the skirt that my mom made for m...

With the small sets of china horses the family groups were very popular. When I first started getting them I could get a set of usually thre...

I tried to get little horses in a verity of different colors, poses, breeds.

This is one of my smallest horses in my collection. This colt is only about 1 inch tall and is china. I have 3 blue horses on a wheel that c...

In the late 1950's there was a TV show about a little boy and his big black horse called Fury. I saw a model of him and of course wanted...

I have several donkeys in my collection. This is one that I got at Death Valley, near Los Vegas, NV in 1959 when we went to Death Valley Sco...

This is one of the most unusual of the equines in my model horse collection.