In Which Teresa W. Admits to Loving All Things HORSES!

Teresa W. LOVES horses!  And Teresa W. is me, so talking in the third person is a seriously scary sign!! 

I have loved horses my entire life.  When I was 12 or 13, I got my first horse and then had a horse, off and on, until I was 16 and pregnant when the horse-hating, fun-crushing stinkers in my life made me get rid of her!  :-(  But that's another story for another time. 

Roll forward many many years and I STILL loved horses!  So when my ex-husband asked me to re-marry him for the second time and sweetened the deal with a nice house, car AND horses [plural, one for each member of the family], well, greedy me fell for that hook, line, and quarter horse of my dreams!  I had my horses for just a few years and then, wow, BAM! Life and soul-crushing circumstances caused the horses to be sold, along with everything else!  I ended up with my daughter and my two dogs and nothing else from THAT fiasco!  But, again, that's another story for probably never!  Sorry, too painful and awful :-(

But I digress, as I am always doing whenever I start writing and thinking about horses!  :-)

So here I am today, as far from ever having another real live horse as I will ever be!  I'm not just being a party-poopin', negative, feeling-sorry-for-myself person either!  With the money troubles and the health troubles [I don't walk real well or steady anymore :-( ], horses are not in my forseeable future.

I am okay with that, in a way!  I feed my horse love.  I no longer ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist [good thing too!!]  So I collect horse stuff.  Anything to do with horses really but mostly horse figures / statues.  I've never counted the horse figures I already have but it must be at least several hundreds by now.  The Breyer ones are cool but expensive so I get the smaller horses which are usually much cheaper.  I can't tell you how excited I get when my adult daughter hits the thrift store and brings me a new horse to add to my collection! I don't even care if I already have it!  She's brought me some really great ones!

I read horse magazines.  I have a subscription to a couple and if I had the money, I would have a subscription to many many more!!  Sometimes my daughter will find a free subscription on the internet and get it for me and not tell me until it gets here in the mail!  And that is a cool surprise!  :-)

I look at horses on the Internet.  Not the horses for sale section, that would be too much to deal with but horse websites with information or just really pretty pictures.  I also try to look at every horse picture, video and article in gather.  I don't know if I DO see them all but I try hard to!!

I also collect AND read horse books!  I've done that for many years so fortunately I have lots of them!  I don't know how many horse books that I have and I have actually managed to get rid of some of the extras [heehee, you can never have too many copies and different editions of Black Beauty or Misty of Chincoteague or King of the Wind, can you?], but I imagine that I still have several hundred horse books left too.   I also have favorite horse illustrators [C.W. Anderson, Sam Savitt, et al] that I try to find their books to buy at prices that I can afford, which is not always an easy task.

Honey                             Traveler                   Copper Lady 

My first horse               My second horse         My third horse

Those three are when I was a kid, I had them one at a time. 

 Misty                              Danzig                       Spice                        Moonie

 These are the horses that we had while I was an adult.  Only Misty and Spice were supposted to be mine but I ended with all of them mostly since I was almost the only one who rode them.  We sold Misty when I got Spice.  And then Spice turned up pregnant.  No one knew she was pregnant when I bought her so it was an unexpected surprise gift!  She gave birth to Heather [below].  Since I didn't get to ride Spice once we knew she was pregnant, I rode Moonie.  Moonie was supposed to be my daughter's horse but I was the one who rode her most of the time [and quite often I might add!] and she became my favorite horse to ride.  So I considered her mine and she considered it that way too!  Danzig and Red were supposed to be for my ex-husband to ride.  I think in the few years that we had them, he rode maybe 5 times, if that.  We sold Danzig because he was scary and too much for us to handle.

Red                               Heather, Spice's baby 

I have a lot of pictures of Heather from the day she was born until she had to go to a new home [that's what this one is] which I will be writing a photo essay about as soon as I can find them!  I misplaced them in the move!

Just a small sampling of some of the horse books that I have.  A few of my horse books I have had to part with when I was absolutely desperate for money so I sold them on ebay.  :-(

Just a couple of the horse statues that I have that I haven't posted a picture of before now!

And since I know this is getting to be very long, here's a wave good bye for now!!

And there you have it.  The story of my addiction, er, obsession, I MEAN *LOVE* for all things horses!!  I know this comes as an amazing surprise to anyone who knows me but the time had come for me to stop keeping this secret to myself!!