Forum and Sala Closing

Our friend Mel Melville is a founding mother of pony play in SL.

She told us last night that Forum and Sala, old and respected BDSM support and pony SIMs, are closing pretty much immediately: Forum Sim closes February 12th, Forum Fields closes February 14th, and Sala closes March 9th

We featured them in 2009, and while we were not regulars, we were aware of the place as a serious adult resource area.

Much as we may be aware of the impermanence of virtual lands, we’re still often harshly reminded that things change and people move on.

Here’s their note:

Opened on May 2nd 2006 we have seen thousands of people through the place and have had an amazing time. We have seen members get together and fall apart. We have tried to be a home for the wicked and a place where people can learn and find friends and people of like interest.. Thank you one and all for a great time and all your help. Forum remain till the lindens take it back. My account will remain but will be spending our time away from SL.

Hugs

We wish you all well.

Jamie and Kathryn

A landmark-giver points visitors to a new location for the Forum group, as they say, “home to cats and lost souls”.

The Forum: http://SLURL.com/secondlife/Forum/126/130/23
The stables: http://SLURL.com/secondlife/Sala/129/128/24

Places - Heavy Bondage Club

A quickie tonight - we didn’t devote as much time to shopping recently as we usually do, between RL, SL10B, and poor configuration of the stars in the astrological houses.

But lelo did manage to discover a cool bondage hangout we didn’t know, and traffic says it’s quite popular.

We spent a bit of time doing S&M, as one of my friends used to say - stand and model, my little joke about visiting hangouts to chat privately with lelo and people-watch.

We saw some famous designers who are themselves bondage bunnies. Name-dropping is so tacky, isn’t it? We’ll just say these are people our regular readers know and leave it there.

The spur-of-the-moment visit produced what these things often will; none of the staff was available for comment, but we’ll be sure to get in touch and give you a bit more about the place; for now, you know it’s there, and that we like it.

What more do you need, really? ;)

Oh, right, the SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Myanimo/122/44/901

Seventh Anniversary of Frilly Filly Farm

Can you believe how time flies?

SL10B is already being planned, and Frilly Filly Farm announced its upcoming seventh anniversary.

Here’s the note :

EVENT: 7th anniversary party for FFF
DATE: Saturday, April 13th
TIME: 1PM to 3PM, SL time
HOSTS: Safra Nitely and Button Wright
 
Sandra Bing and her group, The Burning Bush, will be performing at FFF as part of the 7th anniversary party for Frilly Filly Farm. Open invitation to all

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bulgogi/128/128/80
 

Have a great weekend!

Deirdre and lelo

Places - Stones N Rubber

When we visited the Stones N Rubber mall last week, we noticed how busy the place was.

Not that statues move around that much - I mean how jam-packed every meter of the sim was.

So we called Sinha Hynes and suggested we feature it in a Places post. Could she write us a few lines about the history and so on?

She dived into the project and sent us a very detailed document. I’ve mercilessly chopped it, as we write fairly brief posts to avoid tl:dr syndrome, but I’m sure if you want more details, she’ll be happy to provide them.

Stones N Rubber, then, started in February 2009, making it a venerable fetish project by SL standards. SNR changed locations a few times until a year and a half ago when they acquired their current sim.

The three owners, who have been there right from the start, are Sveta Takaaki, Janina Martinek and Sinha Hynes. (That’s also remarkable - falling-outs between partners are a common cause of sim / project death.)

You can see a gallery of pictures from 2009 to 2011 here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonesnrubber

Stones N Rubber has always been about statues, including dolls, mermaids, sphinx girls and more; and when rubber ponies starting becoming a thing (ha! I’ve had one for ages!) they expanded their stable and created a rubber mares group.

The rules are fairly strict; statues are expected to put in serious time and devotion.

I’ll finish on a quote from Sinha :

“Those who have not yet heard of Stones N Rubber are missing something if they like strictness, RLV control and transformation.”

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kinky%20Magic/21/65/22

Ponybound Sim - Follow-up

We had a lovely chat with Canary Twine, of Ponybound. Following our post of last week, she sent us a notecard with more info about the sim and answered some of our questions.

First, the sim is indeed related to the Ponybound store, and while the development is currently on hold, the products are still available at the store.

Here’s part of the card she gave us :

The sim doesn't have any designated trainers, nor is it designed for structured role-play/events. It is completely centered on low lag training and is “there” to be used by anyone and everyone.

The facilities offered on the sim include:

• Ground Level - For beginners there are steeples, regular slalom, running slalom, barrels, and a wooded carting path.

• Level 1 - For the more adventurous...a show jumping course that promotes accuracy, a flower showmanship track, and a dressage track.

• Level 2 - Here you can find all the carting activities, an innovative carting race track, cart slalom, and cart barrels.

• Level 3 - Advanced steeples and slalom blend. Sky steeples that have a safety net below to catch falling ponies.

• Level 4 - A small store area for pony tack (including the Ponybound latex gear), cuffs, collars, profile photography. It is currently under construction but some products are up.

A maze is also in the works.. stay tuned ;)

The sky steeples is what we chose to snap today, as it’s really spectacular. I tried to walk it - any pony *running* through that course is probably related to Superman.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sweet%20Surrender/36/136/28

Wild PonyGirls Valley Farm and Ponybound

We blinked, and Freedom got a new sim ;)

Well, almost. The Wild Ponygirls moved to the Farthest Shore. The sim looks really spectacular, with intricate cart tracks I can’t easily do justice to in one pic.

Things are still getting built - a move is a big deal. But there’s already sky platforms for cart racing and steeple being put up.

A lovely, lushly green addition to the Freedom Continent - hey, maybe the pony taxi will resume!

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Farthest%20Shore/125/124/22

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We got a nice call from Dragan Nightfire, tipping us to the Ponybound training field.

It doesn’t appear to be related to the PonyboUnd store we reviewed before, but let’s face it, it’s a pretty good name ;)

Very clean, lovely place (when you visit, note the beautiful mountains), and as advertised, very low lag.

There are boards showing script use, memory use, and lots of good info any big pony event should consider to minimize lag.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sweet%20Surrender/36/136/28

Estate Obscure Stables

By Kendra Chemistry, Pony Correspondent - with help from Devastacia Soulstar

The island of Estate Obscure is not like your typical BDSM club in Second Life. Estate Obscure is a community which tries to foster growth and learning among the members.

The Estate is a lesbian community, however well-mannered males are tolerated. It takes in submissives who have suffered, and helps them in the healing process.

Estate Obscure offers many facilities for use, which are open to all, but are primarily for the use of members (see an Estate Dominant for more info).

A focal point of the sim is the clubhouse, a warm, safe haven for all to have discussion, bond, and occasionally play. One of those facilities is the stables, or "ponyland," which can be reached via teleporter from the sim’s landing point.

Ponyland includes all of the basic pony facilities, including a slalom, barrels, dressage field, steeplechase, and a large barn which has a grooming/tacking area and stalls for both members and visitors to use.

There are also very rugged carting trails on the ground level (the main stables are in a sky deck.) Monthly pony events are held at the sim and the next event is a Running Barrels competition on December 21 at 6pm SLT.

The Place : Estate Obscure Stables

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estate%20Obscure/195/73/701

Owner : Alt168 Obscure



December SL Dressage Society Show Report

The December show was held at Estate Obscure this month, and had a fantastic turnout of competitors and spectators. The results were:

1st Miss Mikky Heron with Beauty (Kara Kaptane) 42.0
2nd Miss Jo Gallindo with Seraphim (safra2011 Resident) 39.33
Miss Tasha Yar Dax with Jelly (Jill Freenote) 39.33
Miss Kara Kaptane with Waffles (Laurana Christenson) 39.33
3rd Miss Mikky Heron with (Equuea Eiren) 35.33
4th Miss Jo Gallindo with Ash (Cathryn McMillan) 34.6
5th Miss Zaphod Plutonian with Aziza (Daniella Zenoria) 34.0
6th Miss Mikky Heron with Lucciola (Aprille Dollinger) 33.33
7th Miss Telra Huntress with Moondance (Kat Stephenson) 31.33
8th Miss Telra Huntress with Amber (Amberlee Moonshadow) 29.0
9th Miss Jo Gallindo and Latexbaby (Latexbaby Fiertze) 17.0

The next show will be in late January at Meiji Stables.

Look for notices in Pony Info Group and SL Dressage Society groups, and all about SL Pony Play Dressage at the Society's web site.

Carting

By pony correspondent: Jo Ronin

Last time we went over how to practice responding to whip commands in the safe environment of a corral. Once you are happy that you and your partner have a synergy going, you might want to think about taking to the roads.

Now, for roads, there are four places that I like. AK Stables has a very nice set of straight, flat roads with right angle turns. They also have a number of different carts out for public use, just please return them when you're done. This makes it very good for the beginner pony.

The second place is Frilly Filly Farm. It has a reasonably advanced race track, plus cart rezzers and access to linden roads for multi-sim cart rides. Certain areas can be a little tricky to navigate, but they make good practice at doing different corner types, plus there is a central timing gate.

Similarly, Happy Bottom farm can be an excellent place to start a cart ride along the long linden roads.

Finally, there is Sala, the stables for The Forum. Sala is one of the nicest places to go carting with plenty of different turns, hills, ramps and pretty views. There are also a number of cuddle corners to be your target destination and to keep you riding round the sim. There were a number of cart rezzers, but if you cannot find one, rez-rights are limited to members of The BDSM Forum group. They are a lovely group, so there is nothing to stop you dropping by and joining up.

One piece of advice with regards to carting, if you are crossing sim borders, be very careful. Do not try to turn once you make contact as it can spin you all over the place. It's best to stop short, then step reasonably slowly over the border, then wait for everyone to arrive. If you get bumped from the cart, hit "stand up" and sit on something near the cart. This usually works better than trying to TP and without you having to re-log.

If you're trying to go carting in a place without rezzers and are therefore looking for a good "Beginner" cart to purchase, I would recommend the Dog Cart.

The Dog Cart

For quite a while, one of my favourite carts has been the Dog Cart by Sugarcube productions. It's quite plain and very simple, but also incredibly reliable and robust. It's not too heavy, so it can go reasonably quickly, but not so light that it is uncontrollable. The turning circle isn't fantastic, but that has the benefit that the control is not too twitchy, so can avoid a novice pony "tripping" and falling off the road (and if you hit a parcel that has ban line.... let's say they hurt). This also makes it good for blindfolded carting.

The other big bonus is that it is copy/mod, so if you want to add an auto-rez script, that is a possibility. You can also mod it to suit your personality better or to match your pony's tack. There are also a number of similar yet different designs to choose from, including 4-passenger and 2 passenger, 2-puppy configurations (all be-it as separate purchases).

The crowning jewel of the Dog cart is the Duo Dog Cart. For the trainer lucky enough to have two ponies, this cart allows them to work together, one controlling the forwards and backwards, the other steering. I have enjoyed using the single cart with a number of friends of mine, but the duo cart can just add that extra bit to make a ride much more entertaining.

As with any cart there is a time and a place for it - it makes an excellent relaxing ride cart, but you wouldn't use it for racing. At 499$L per style, it is also not the cheapest cart on the market, but it is certainly an excellent and reliable cart that makes a good starting point when carting.

Landmarks for the locations mentioned in this post can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/slponyplay/locations

Pony Places : Port Sarah Ponygirl RP Community

Port Sarah is a pretty extraordinary sim. The pony play there is integrated in roleplay - I want to say daily life - in a way that is rarely seen elsewhere.

We were lucky enough to run into Logan Catronis, one of the architects of the current incarnation of Sarah’s.

He’s the oldest soul I’ve met in SL, and despite the *Evil Incarnate* tag he wore, was the soul of courtesy to us as we visited.

Roleplay rules at Sarah’s are strict, with the intent of making sure everyone has a good time. This is a fighting sim, with some pretty rough action going on at any time, so be aware of this if you visit.

We wore the mandatory Observer tag and were quiet as church mice while we visited - you really, really want to read the card you get on arrival, I'm not kidding.

Prospective members must meet with an admin for an entry interview. When I remarked that this was labor-intensive, Logan mentioned that no less than 14 admins help run things, so someone is always on hand.

The sim is gorgeous, and the construction everywhere is beautiful and consistent, giving a real 1800’s period feel.

The cart tour of the sim was slow and leisurely - the girls are trained to it, I learned. I approve!

The amount of sheer intelligence that went into everything really impressed me. I spotted the wide roads immediately on arrival, and sure enough, pony carts are the vehicles : no flight, and even teleporting is frowned upon - and forbidden in a fight, of course.

There’s no way to sum up a two hour visit in a few paragraphs, so I’ll encourage you to visit and speak to an admin if a pony lifestyle in a fully immersive roleplay sim sounds good to you.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sarahs%20Island/127/166/26

The Frilly Filly Gran Prix

By Kendra Chemistry (ponygirl “Aella”), Pony Correspondent

When you visit most any pony play stable in SL, you'll see various courses used by the trainers to teach and test the ponies various skills. Trainers may stage contests on the courses between ponies to show off, earn praise and rewards, or just for fun.

Stables also sponsor organized events to bring together ponies from all over the grid for some friendly competition, win awards and socialize.

One of the common events in pony play is the cart race, which might be run on a track, a marked course on farm trails, or even one that runs through many regions in SL. Cart racers use a racing sulky, a light, 2-wheeled cart built for speed. What follows is a "sports report" of a typical event.

Under a beautiful, cloudless sky one night this past week, ponies (some with their trainers or owners), and a number of spectators gathered with anticipation for a cart race event, the Frilly Filly Farm (FFF) Gran Prix.

Event notices on the Pony Info Group, SL Ponygirl Club, and the farms's own group had gone out for days, as well as being posted on the event calendar at http://slponyplay.com/ . There were ponies of a wide range of experience and skill levels lined up to race.

The course was laid out on about 1.5KM of trails that run the perimeter of the farm. In the minutes leading up to the beginning of the race, at least one ponygirl (Aella) frantically practiced, trying to learn the course, adjust to the region weather (lag), and make up for being more trainer than pony lately.

One of the trainers running the race did her part to try to reduce lag (see photo), and also succeeded in happily distracting this pony reporter.

The trainers started carts about every minute or so. Most ponies took their laps without riders, while others carried a rider sometimes (this pony reporter ran her best time with her trainer along for the ride.)

Sometimes an accident would happen, such as tumbling off the course. Fortunately no ponies, riders or spectators were injured (there is a clinic at this farm, just in case.)

Some of the more experienced ponies jumped out to early leads on the scoreboard, but as the race wore on, some very talented newer ponies gave them a run for their money.

The top times differed in fractions of a second at times, and the drama was building at the end, as the times got very close to each other and were very fast. As usual, a fun time was had by all, and treats and ribbons were awarded.

Results of the Frilly Filly Gran Prix: 1 Solange Redangle (Arun) 117.447 2 Shortcake (lilitha Triellis) 117.621 3 Jelly (Jill Freenote) 118.327 4 Sovka Canning 122.991 5 Pricilla Slade 123.458 6 Caprice (Becky de Pure) 125.882 7 Krystalin Windrunner 126.296 8 Aella (Kendra Chemistry) 126.841 9 Daniella Zenoria 127.538 10 Amberlee Moonshadow 145.998 11 Equuea Eiren 154.209 12 Moonshine (Roxieboo Resident) 158.638 13 Smurfette (jessika1990) 356.445

An upcoming special event: An advanced skill ponies may learn is called Dressage. In a future column we’ll go into it further, but for now I’m happy to announce a dressage show will take place on Saturday November 12th, starting at 7am SL time.

This November show is being hosted by the Frilly Filly Farm, but future shows will be hosted at stables all over SL. Please see the SL Dressage Society web site for details.

The Place: Frilly Filly Farm (FFF)
The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bulgogi/155/230/78
Owner: Button Wright

Pony Places: Highland Stable

by Kendra Chemistry, Pony Correspondent

Up high above the clouds (at 561m above sea level, to be precise), rests a happy little farm known as Highland Stable.

A new place on the pony play map, this stable caught my eye as it recently had a flurry of events. Your pony reporter was able to attend one of them and managed to do okay (considering she’d not pulled a cart in quite a while,) and had a great time.

Highland Stable features a courtyard-type stable building with stalls around the inside. The grounds are beautifully landscaped and kept, and there is a nice pasture for frolicking around and whip training. A path runs along the fringes of the pasture, which leads to the various event courses.

The stable owner, Sir Gaudin Himmel (who I'd only managed to catch a glimpse of during the cart event), is lucky to have in his employ the famed builder, Pony Cheryl (Umarov).

I would have liked to talked to him, but I had a bit locked in my mouth and was nervously waiting my turn at the event. Any pony that gets around knows that Cheryl builds some of the most beautiful, interesting and challenging (read evil) steeplechase courses in SL.

Aside from the steeple course, there are also more classic barrel and slalom courses, and a polo field.

I didn't get a chance to use it yet, but I spotted an interesting caged slalom course with counters and timers. Amazing, the way SL technology is applied to pony play sometimes. I'll have to come back soon with a pony that needs some remedial slalom training.

I was delighted to find Pony Cheryl in the midst of building a second steeple course, which I'm told will feature that trademark challenge (evil and scary) I love to see (hate, because I will spend hours or days trying to conquer it.)

The cart track is elevated above the stable land and affords nice scenic views. I give it a thumbs up. Come for the steeples, stay for the slalom cage.

The place: Highland Stable
Owner: Gaudin Himmel
The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelridge/156/33/561

Hu-Mares Stable at Stones N Rubber

Off in the region of Kinky Magic sits the transformation wonderland of Stones N Rubber (sNr), a place of latex coated dreams and frozen statue nightmares.

On the eastern side of this land, you’ll find the Hu-Mares Stable, on the main path around sNr, and at exit 1 on the Pony Highway. The Pony Highway is an elevated system of pathways around the island, affording carriage riders fantastic views of sNr.

Make sure to have your pony’s blinders on, otherwise they might crash your carriage over the guard rail as they enjoy the view too.

Hu-Mares Stable is one that caters to strict animal livestock treatment of its residents.

As one is transformed from a human into an animal, many restrictions are placed on them. The use of an RLV-enabled viewer, open collar or stable-provided implant, and pet hearing device is required to enforce restrictions and immerse the animal in the roleplay.

This is exciting to some (I’m getting tingley just writing about it), it represents one side of the spectrum of pony play that might be more than some can handle. From what I’ve observed, the life of a Hu-Mare is hard and requires much patience and dedication.

Those transformed into Hu-Mare Ponies may become Mares, which are permanent residents of the stable. The stable requires that one entering transformation choose between “classic” (typical ponygirl tack) and “rubber” (a specific latex outfit/look is welded permanently to the pony.)

Hu-Mares Stable’s facilities are well integrated into sNr. The barn has a number of stalls for the resident animals, as well as some guest stalls.

Adjacent to the barn is a training area, whip ring and walking track, where ponies will learn to adjust to their new situation under the strict supervision of Hu-Mares’ trainers.

A nice steeplechase jump course is near the barn, as well as a slalom course. Then there are all the roads and paths in sNr which are nice for carting, as well as the Pony Highway.

Occasionally events are held, such as a recent cart race on the Pony Highway. It was a very fun race, the excitement of a new course, seeing many pony friends, and the challenges of the course and environment (it was a very busy time for the island.)

If you are a pony looking for a month of hard work or a permanent home, perhaps sealed in latex, then Hu-Mares Stable at Stones N Rubber may be just the place for you. For me, its a nice place to visit (and shop), so you should definitely check it out.

Kendra Chemistry, Pony Correspondent

Name : Hu-Mares Stable at Stones N Rubber
Owner : Sinha Hynes
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kinky%20Magic/113/123/22

VvB Stiletto Heels Equestrian - Xaara at Zexpo

Introducing the pony friendly riding boots by VvB, just look at the spurs, no nasty spikes there.

The 9 inch platform heels don’t make them very practical on the farm but the do look very good.

With the included HUD you get control of the metal colors and you can show/hide the belt and spurs.

As you might expect from a V4 boot, the reflections and prim work are impressive and the red sole is to die for.

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Armaud/58/225/26

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When we tell you Xaara is busy, we’re not kidding.

This time, they’re at Zexpo, the Zindra festival. (It’s a cool adult event, four-sim wide. Definitely worth visiting.)

They’re not just setting up a shop with a few pictures and pony-booth-babes, though : an area is reserved for pony activities, with slalom racing posts and lots of green grass.

There’s also a cart rezzer, so you can take a ride in the streets of the expo in style.

Drop by and meet the nice Xaara staff, or go show off your pretty pony to the vanilla folks ;)

For more info :

http://zindrabusiness.blogspot.com/2011/08/zexpo-2011-zindra-expo-opens-today.html

https://sites.google.com/site/zexpo2011/home

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jaraded/15/141/52

Pony Places: Sala - New and improved

We heard from our friend Mel Melville that Cheryl Umarov was now at Sala, and that the place was undergoing some serious improvement.

We visited a couple of years ago, and I can say I don’t remember the pony area being this impressive.

While I haven’t (yet!) talked Mel into a permanent position on the Pony Correspondent staff, I’m not foolish enough to ignore her tips.

We visited Sala together, and it was really neat to share the exploration with a confirmed expert.

Examining the barn and finding water troughs, an excellent library, and just the most detailed work we’ve ever seen was a pleasant surprise.

The pretty pony in pink here is Swenyia Chuwen, she's an innocent bystander and the victim of a drive-by snap ;)

The steeple courses are covered in grass, almost obscuring the obstacles.. I love it!

I caught up with Cheryl today and asked a bit about the new developments.

She definitely intends to get things rolling at Sala. An event just today drew a nice big crowd, and we hear it was fun and quite a hot contest.

A lush environment, lots of play areas, and the most awesome inclined cart paths to cross between sims.. the new improved Sala is worth a visit!

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sala/129/128/24

Xaara Pony Event and News and Sim-I-Lar Riding Boot

The turnout for the procession at Xaara last Sunday was excellent - better than expected, in fact, since not everyone RSVP’d. It seems it’s simply not a SL tradition.

One person reported 30 people on the sim when she arrived. Xaara staff was understandably elated.

The procession started in the castle courtyard, and guests filed out in their carts in good order.

The trail was quite spectacular, and we rode for some time with our dear friend Mel Melville and her pony Irzune.

SL general instability that day caused a few crashes, but everyone took it in stride, and a lovely time was had by all.

In fact, Jorden Grau communicated with us a couple of days later, and shared some excellent news for the pony community : in a few weeks, Xaara will focus more directly on pony play, and the chateau will be renamed “Chateau Xaara Country & Pony Club".

New events are already planned by the friendly and competent Xaara team.

Stay tuned to the Pony Correspondent for more news as it develops!

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Some time ago, we were tipped about an excellent riding boot at Sim-I-Lar, a shoe store we hadn’t covered yet.

A quick visit showed that the boot did in fact look very good.

But as sometimes happens, the owner refused our request for an evaluation copy.

That usually means an item doesn’t get reviewed, but riding boots are rare enough that I decided to make an exception, although lelo did grumble ;)

So all we can tell you about the Sidewinder boot is that it looks good, and sells for 750L$

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arafo/17/164/23

Le Manoir de Sade

“Jaydana is leaving us to pursue other opportunities...” ;)

No, we had a great time with Jay over the last couple of years, but RL beckons, so we wish her the best of luck.

But the Pony Correspondent column remains!

Lelo and I will continue keeping you informed about cool pony people, places and things.

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My sweetie discovered a new pony sim, and we went to investigate : Le Manoir de Sade, which like other sims not exclusively devoted to pony play, nevertheless has an excellent pony (and puppy!) play area.

This is one of the only - if not the only - French pony-related sim we’ve found.

Sade was established in 2008, and a pony attempt was briefly made at the time, but the current pony group has been active for the last three months.

The sim is gorgeous, with lovely stone architecture and landscaping, and a number of fun little nooks to sit and chat.

The puppy area has a fun obstacle course with jumps, tubes, a balance beam.. it looks like quite a challenge.

The pony dressage field has a neat feature we haven’t seen elsewhere : you can select the markings for the figures on the ground with a touch on a sign in the fence.

Ponies train Wednesday and Sunday nights, usually. Angelique Redangel is in charge of the pony training.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sade/214/244/22

Reminder : Sunday 12:30 is the pony procession at Xaara! There's still time to call Jorden Grau and RSVP if you want to participate. See last week's post for details.

Euro Pony Stables

I am saddened to say that Euro Pony sim is closing as of August 1st.

This means that you have just a little over two weeks left to visit, before the sim closes.

If you have not already been there, then please make the time to swing by and explore before yet another pony sim closes it’s doors for the last time.

I always found the sim and nice place to trot about, never too busy that you were harassed there, and I love the stadium that was built.

It is always tragic when a pony sim closes, but I understand the cost of running one is high, and there comes a time when you just have to let something you love go.

There is also a puppy area and a BDSM castle, as well as a lake for swimming and canoeing. An apple tree game where you (ponies or puppies) run around the tree gathering the apples as they drop to see who can collect the most apples.

It is the nice touches like that that will be missed.

So come on ponies of Second life, let’s all give Euro Pony Stable a great send off, and enjoy climbing the skyways and running the tracks around the sim, you don't have much time left to do this before it disappears for us all !

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Euro%20Sim/181/104/29