Arrowhead

Here we are about halfway through summer already! It's been a hot, sunny one here so far. I'm not complaining, since we have a shady backyard and an effective AC system in the house. (So effective Mom often walks around in sweatshirts when it's like 90 degrees outside, since the other humans like it colder than she does. XD She's totally going to be one of those little old ladies who's always wearing a sweater someday.)

On HI3, Pepsi continues to keep busy delivering letters, exploring, and lassoing wild equines. As usual, I will share with you the wilds we thought were most noteworthy.

First up is this handsome silver pony stallion:

His genetic stats and personality were pretty great, but his performance metrics were not. What a bummer! He was one nice looking pony!

I believe this is our third wild equine with lacing - they seem to be as uncommon as they are cool.

She had a decent stats and metrics, but sadly also had an ornery personality. No lacy horse for us. Yet, anyway. Again, big bummer!

This interesting dun stallion sort of looks like a cross between a draft horse and warmblood to me:

His huge size, over 900 genetic stat total, and high endurance stat immediately caught our attention.

His performance metrics weren't great, though, and he was extremely ornery besides. No cool dun draft/warmblood for us either.

This silver mesa wild looks pretty normal... until you view her face from the front. She has an incredibly narrow muzzle!

High-stat bay silver wilds seem to like us! First Fireside, then Pizza, and now this one! Maybe it's our lucky color.

Goofy facial profile aside (we've taken to calling her Arrowhead), she's quite a nice horse. It was such a pleasant surprise to scroll down to that persona and see that she's not skittish, ornery, or lazy! 

I'm pretty sure she's staying! <3 The expert deemed her a Grade North American Stock Horse. That's a new one!

The last horse of note is a cool pinto mare. It was getting dark when Pepsi spotted her up in some rocky hills.

We loved her coloring and her jaunty little tail!

Her stats, performance metrics, and personality were okay too. 

We found her oddly shaped/set neck and super long head rather distracting, though, and Lily convinced us to part with her. Sorry, Tux!

Also, we happened to come online once after a game update that had gone wrong. Some horses, for us our greys and pintos, lost all the white in their manes and tails.

Calacatta's mane and tail turned orange-gold!

Escher lost the white sections of his mane:

Our light grey Highland suddenly was sporting a dark grey mane and tail:

Taurus's mane and tail turned fully flaxen:

And our new appaloosa lost her checkerboard tail and white mane streaks:

The biggest issue, other players warned, was that if you tried to view a maneless horse, your game would crash. Once we'd groomed everybody but Eagle, of course we had to try it. Sure enough, the game booted us the instant we tried to place her. She never got groomed that day!

The issue was quickly fixed, though. All the hair is back to normal, and Eagle can be viewed, placed, and ridden. Even more encouraging, HI3 polled players about future horsey hairstyle modification. Would we only want to be able to choose from styles of the same length or shorter than a horse's natural hair, or should all styles be available to all horses? We voted for the latter, and it ended up with the majority. So, I guess there's still hope that Eagle won't have to be a baldie forever.