No Shock

I didn't win Bramble. No surprise there! I was hopeful, as usual, but also as usual, my hopes lead to disappointment. I'm keeping in mid that this is only my second year in the club, and that every year I lose the lottery for my favorite model of that year. Last year it was Orion, this hunky, delicious, 'pearl buckskin' (I've been calling it Cremello) Desatado;

A blue eye would have made him better.

Desatado is one of my FAVORITE molds, but I did kind of get burnt out last year. He was a regular run (Picasso), a Web Special (Orion), and an Exclusive Event Model (Four Stars). Now at the very beginning of the next year, we find out he's a Breyer Fest Store Special. While Breyer mentioned that Desatado is a 'fan favorite mold', as ALL the rearing models are to some extent, it doesn't really explain the 4 releases extremely close in release dates. Oh well. I only have one Desatado and he's not even Original Finish, so I really shouldn't be pondering this topic. Back to Web Specials and Lottery Luck. 

Interestingly, I was not at all excited by Solar, the first Web Special of 2015. I lost him, and was not at all disappointed. In hindsight I should have been; I'm extremely fond of the original Brishen mold, and why Solar's chestnut-paint coloring didn't appeal to me is a mystery. Perhaps it's because I still prefer the regular run bay/buckskin-paint to all of the others. Shrug. The only lottery I won last year was number 4. I didn't enter number 6 because I didn't really like Sugar Loaf, and there was somebody who really did like her and wanted her. I really wanted Padma, (almost as much as Orion) but, again, lost. The Web Special I did win was Milky Way; 

Yes, I like her very much. Mine is chock full of flaws, but since she's my only Web Special, I'm OK with it. She was Lottery Number 4, and I'm hoping that she doesn't mean I'll only win Lottery Number 4s. Whatever happens happens, and if it's another lack-luster year without Web Specials on my shelf, I'll survive. And don't even mention Wait Lists. I didn't get on one, and their a bunch of hooey anyway. Yep, that was a rant...

Until later, Adios!