Where are you, wonderland wilds?

On HI3 yesterday, we had a productive afternoon of wild hunting: just shy of 30 wilds caught! The goal was to catch pretty, hopefully gaited wonderland wilds, but things did not go as planned.

When we first logged on and travelled to our ranch to feed and water everybody, we were distracted by multiple wilds. Our favorites were these two:

Aw, snowflake appaloosas are so cool!

Appropriately named. :) 

She was a tobiano... with just one tiny white patch near her withers on the other side.

After tradering the rainforest wilds, it was off to a club with "wonderland" in its description. We decided to take on a mail run, though, which took us away from wonderland into strangler fig forest. The cutest find: a tiny gray pony named "Colossal."

From there, we wandered through a tiny dark forest section (no donkeys or tiny wilds, just thick mist and some dead trees) and into plains.

We found a few more wilds hanging around out there, including these two:

Ooh, splash on sooty buckskin! She was my favorite of the day.

=)

We teleported back to the club and deliberately headed out into wonderland territory then, determined to find at least a few wonderland wilds. It was, sadly, only a few, even though we spent quite a while roaming around. None were gaited either. I think maybe they were on to us and mostly went off to hide.

Our favorite, no contest, was this cool appaloosa mare:

At the club where we sold the strangler fig and wonderland wilds, horsey sense went into overdrive. Two pairs of jungle ponies were hanging out nearby. My favorite was this little champagne cutie named Ernie:

Then it was off to a location we'd saved as "unexplored wonderland" in our locations list, but as I think we found out once before, it's not wonderland at all, but a vast bamboo forest. Oops. We've finally deleted that location now, ha ha. As long as we were there, we filled up our horse slots with abundant bamboo-terrain wilds. Our two favorites are below.

A mellow, solid liver chestnut with a tiny star

This stallion reminds me of Clorox, only in brown frame instead of palomino pintaloosa. XD 

Had he not been borderline ornery, we might have gotten attached.

This is probably going to be it for August wilds, since we have a busy few days ahead, so things are looking up for Magnus and Cheeky! Sometime soon we really need to get crafting saddle pads and polos for all these new herd members. We are way behind! Or maybe we'll give up on the "craft them all yourself" thing and start buying cool patterned ones from other players... We'll see.

I will leave you with a few fun shots of Mom's visit to the zoo yesterday: some real-life wild animals.

Magnus

My birthday (Aug 8) fell on a warm, cloudy, occasionally rainy Monday this year. As I've been typing this post 5 days later, more rain and some non-alarming little thunderstorms have been rolling through. I don't mind - we've needed the rain - but it's just funny, because when I think of early-mid August, I think dry and hot.

We lassoed many equines on HI3 on the Sunday before my birthday. I figured we wouldn't have much time on the day itself, so I was really hoping somebody would find a keeper as an early birthday present for me. 

Lucky me: we did! To make it even more special, he is our first keeper from the snowy mountains biome, which is known for having large, cold-blood type wilds!

The name is a flop, but I was immediately smitten by the horse himself. (I love drafties, indigo eyes, and lots of hair, so how could I not be?)

As huge as he is, I'm not surprised he isn't very fast, but he still turns pretty well. He's lazy, which is annoying but not nearly as bad as being ornery or a stubborn leader. At 18%, we will be able to coax him into better behavior eventually, so I was more than willing to overlook it. 

Yay, this guy was sooo worth the long trudge through deep snow to lasso! <3 Many thanks, Lily and Inky! I have renamed him Magnus, and I think he's relieved. XD

I did briefly visit HI3 on my birthday as well, and I was greeted by this:

=)

My first birthday wild was my favorite of the 4 savanna residents I lassoed.

He isn't fearless or flame-colored, but he sure is speedy for a wild!

Even though this guy would've been more practical to keep than Magnus (faster and not lazy), I just wasn't feeling it. Magnus is (in my opinion, anyway) so much easier on the eyes, and we have loads of savanna wilds already. So, Magnus stayed and Fearless Flame did not. 

We found yet another cool wild today chilling near another elephant on a savanna beach.

She's champagne and brindle, which is awesome. Her conformation... not so much. Swan-like neck, short head, hooves like spades...

...and lazy. Again. Still, she is pretty cute, and I think the auto-generated name actually fits her. 

Hmm, my favorite is still definitely Magnus, but we'll see if any of my sisters get attached. I think odds are good.