In honor of Karen Crossley, a Canadian hobbyist and active blogger who passed away in 2020, Jennifer Buxton, Anne Field, and I are finishing Karen's alphabetical tour of her collection. Today's letter is U.
Names that begin with U are few and far between in my collection. I even keep a list of possible names for model horses and even though there are 96 names on it, not one begins with U.
Fortunately, Swedish Canadian daughter-in-love Emily lived in Sweden for a while during college and I named a model horse after the name of the town in which she lived.
Meet Uppsala!
Uppsala is a Lakeshore and has been in my collection for probably almost twenty years. Sculpted by Ann Harris and released in 2003, mine is an early piece that I bought soon after the model was released.
Uppsala has done well at shows, including Breakables, but I only rarely bring him out any more - Lakeshores are sturdy pieces, but I really don't want to risk breakage.
I have a horse named Undine. That's the Bluegrass Bandit in translucent sea-green with mermaids all over her... (Under the Sea). But that's my only U in something over 55 years of model horses (that I can remember). U really is rare.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great U name.
ReplyDeleteUpset...most perfectly named racehorse ever.
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