VC Anton & a Smile

 Thunderbird came with a little friend riding along in his box, someone who was in a box himself.

Anton!

This year's free Vintage Club Stablemate.

The Darwin/Lippizaner Stablemate mold is highly popular and I suspect that Anton will be selling on the secondary market for high prices.

He is my favorite Stablemate mold, and while I don't collect Stablemates, I do collect this mold. (I also collect the shrunk down Traditional Indian Pony and if they shrink the 5 Gaiter, that will be collected, too.)

Anton's box was a recreation of the Classic sized Lippizaner's box.

Here is the original box for the Classic Lippizaner.

And here is Anton's. It was fun to compare the two and see what Breyer had changed for the Stablemate box.

They even included the information that was on the sides of the original box.

(Sorry, folks, I meant to edit these pics and discovered I'd forgotten to when I sat down to write. I just don't have time now.)

And a Smile

I mentioned yesterday that Leslie was being honored in various ways at this year's Feast. Here's another way.

A local restaurant and brewery has created a special can in her honor for their Still Water Sparkling Water.

This is version 3 of the can design and the one that was used.

Leslie was given two advance six packs of the water, and she stopped by my home and shared one with me.

I don't plan to drink it; I plan to keep it as is.

I am so glad that she is being recognized for all she has done. Even when she was battling cancer, she didn't let that keep her from attending to the myriad things that happened behind and in front of the scenes for The Feast. It all still happened despite how ill she was.

Well deserved, Leslie. Well deserved. I am so very proud of you.