Winter's Last Hurrah?

It's spring!

This is what the first day of it looked like here:

It snowed big, wet clumps of snowflakes all afternoon.

=^[ 

It hasn't snowed much since, though. We're happily enjoying some sunshine today. Melt, you ugly snow piles! Melt!

Winter seems to be clinging on in our TV program choices this weekend too. Instead of watching NCAA men's basketball like many are, we've been watching the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan. We find it exceedingly more entertaining. 

So far we've caught some ice dancing and women's figure skating, and we're hoping to see men's figure skating tonight. In general, the ice dancing outfits seemed gaudier and more risqué than the figure skating outfits this time around. 

I have most appreciated the figure skating of the Japanese women so far. Yeah, the Russian women seemed pretty much flawless and are amazing at the difficult, fancy jumps. I definitely preferred the more artistic, heart-felt style and music choices of the Japanese. It's a shame they didn't make it onto the podium.

Rika Kihira, the Japanese skater who came in 4th

Unrelated side-note: Behold! Pac-Man characters among all the boring ads on the rink walls! =) 

I hope the cute bunnies, Rika, and the ghosties help make up for the past-its-prime snow's ugliness, but to be sure, I will now show you some especially good-looking horses we encountered on HI2 this week.

Here is a sooty buckskin sabino wild Morab that UV and Bethany fluted on Friday afternoon:

Wow! Had her personality label been more interesting, she'd have gone to our Millennium Fields.

Bethany also noticed two especially cool horses in the livery that she wanted me to share:

Here is what his avatar would look like:

Here is what her avatar would look like:

Good thing for our horse slots that we don't buy horses solely based on looks. We're struggling lately as it is, and the most recent (temporary) slot filler is my doing.

This guy was going to the foreign bidder for a measly $4600. =( I couldn't let it happen.

Somebody's bound to want this sturdy, +6/6, marking-less black stallion. I've wanted a horse with this persona since we started playing the game (who wouldn't, right?), but so far no such luck. It's a shame his stats only add up to +47. I'm not sure I'll be able to put him in our ranch store, but maybe Lily will have the strength of will to do it. *Tears self away and goes to pet the new Noriker.*

I've named him Nifty. <3 Doesn't he look awesome in blue and red?