Ahhh I love this, it looks amazing so far! I've bookmarked it as well. I love pony websites too, I miss the days where there were more of them.

Here's mine! <3 It's a bit messy atm as I'm reorganizing a lot of things but yeah >u<

Oklahoma:

We currently have 67 cases and 2 deaths. There are 2 cases in our county currently, including one in our local hospital. We live near OSU and they've moved all classes online and shut down their transportation services. Our mayor (and now entire state) has issued a state of emergency and a bunch of public services including recreational facilities and the library have all been shut down. All bars and dine-in restaurants have been shut down and restaurants that can do so have moved to doing either delivery or drive-thru only.

My family have all been self-isolating as best we can and only going out to get absolutely necessary groceries. Even though my family are mostly healthy and aren't in the high-risk columns, my sister and I recently got over bouts of Influenza A so there's that worry. My mom has begun using gloves to interact with anything that a multitude of people have touched, including gas pumps and ATM machines, and we have a little...sanitization station (hehe) out in our garage where we remove our shoes and all clothing we went to a store in and use hand sanitizer so we can touch the doorknob on the way to the bathroom, where we then take a shower. It may seem like a bit of an overreaction but we have lots of elderly and immunocompromised people in our community and we're trying our best not to allow anything to spread if we can help it. I've also been using gloves to handle any mail/packages.

Although my sister works as a trainer at Chic-Fil-A and still has to work, they've been carefully choosing people that can take the financial hit and cutting their hours first so that people who rely on the job as their main income can still support themselves. Because my sister still lives with all of us on our family farm and mostly just has a job to build up savings and help out a bit with rent/household costs, she had her hours cut majorly. She's only working 3 days this coming up week and they're very short days. We're doing okay financially though and I still have some money saved up to loan my parents if I need to.

My sister's workplace was extremely quick to act and even before the state of emergency was issued, implemented a rule where every 30 minutes, an alarm goes off and employees must drop what they're doing and wash their hands. All employees are wearing gloves at this point as well, no matter what job they're doing. There is one person to handle the money and another to hand out the food. The managers apparently said that if anyone comes in with any symptoms of being sick, they will be fired on the spot and sent home (they're huge on not having employees work while sick anyways; if you have a fever or get nauseous during the shift they automatically send you home even when a pandemic is not happening).

We've had to resort to making our own bread and buying yeast for it online because none of our stores have any bread. Panic buying has increased since the state of emergency was issued, it seems. We were barely able to find essentials like toilet paper and even feminine products. Apparently when my mom last went out to get groceries for the week, someone shoved her out of the way to get into the store first. Absolutely unreal. There are some silver linings, though; the Dollar General down the road from my house has started closing early but they've put in place a neat rule where for the last couple hours of the day, elderly customers are given priority over other customers so they can get checked out and leave quicker. Also a lot of the elderly people in our community have taken to wearing respirators and gloves when they do have to go out.

Hi Light Heart! Welcome to the arena <3 There is so much to learn, so you should be kept busy for quite awhile hehe! I hope you enjoy your time here and that you're able to learn all that you wanted to and more!

So I've had pretty okay luck finding my boys! Steamer I had from childhood and I found him at a garage sale in a box of ponies. I managed to find a Sunburst at $45 on ebay, I got a mint-y Daddy Bright Bouquet at a pony meet last year for $20 (I perhaps overpaid a bit but when I say mint-y I mean he is perfect, no flaws, still squishy, etc.), and more recently I've gotten Wigwam, Tex, Chief, Barnacle, and Salty for cheap on various sites like ebay, Mercari, Etsy, etc. I have noticed that, like you said, Slugger, Quarterback and 4-Speed are more difficult to find in good condition, and even the ones that are on the bait-y side tend to sell quickly. There were two 4-Speeds on Mercari recently for under $15 (I think one was $7 and one was $10) and they both sold super quick (pretty sure the $7 sold within minutes and the $10 sold within 2 days).

I would definitely say that IMO, out of all the 'mainstream' big boys (not including the rare Family Friends Daddies, Playschool/Schooltime sets, etc.) Ice Crystal is the rarest or at least the hardest to find for a reasonable price because he's so sought-after. I still haven't come across him for a low price and it sucks because he's my absolute grail ahaha ;u; I've seen a few other Mountain Boys for under $100 each but most of them were in fairly poor condition. I got lucky with my Sunburst because he has stains, but otherwise he's really nice with gorgeous uncut hair and pretty good symbols, and I'm not super picky so *shrugs* I did notice that Sunburst and Thundercloud tend to be the ones that pop up most often on the lower end of pricing.

If you're including mail orders, Tux 'n Tails is probably up there as well. He is ridiculously hard to find in nice condition for cheap. Clipper pops up a lot more often for lower prices, I've noticed. I'm hoping to get him soon. He's precious!

Now there's also the Baby Brothers to consider. Personally I think that Leaper and Racer are probably the hardest to find of those. Racer especially. In my experience the others can be found for okay prices usually, but they're also sometimes not in the best condition. I got Baby Whirly Twirl in a $9 pony bag at my local antique mall. His symbols are kinda scratched up but he's otherwise very lovely.

A lot of it also comes down to location, too. In some parts of the world it's easier to get certain ponies, while in others it's nigh impossible.

Edit: I forgot to mention that my sister also has a childhood Big Brother, Salty, who she found with his hat at a thrift store. He's still in our herd and still has his hat!

The prototype baby boys Gametime and Sugarcake! They would have been super cute <3 I'm thinking of doing a custom of baby boy Sugarcake because I love his colors!

Also the blue Tuneful and the Fancy Swirl/Celestial ponies of course!

I have her (found her in the wild) and I think she's absolutely gorgeous!

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I saw these really neat drawstring canvas backpack things at Hobby Lobby a few months ago, and I thought it might be neat to have a fun, unique bag to take with me to pony-related events. I thought about doing fabric paint on it or something, but I've always wanted to try embroidery, so I did some sketches and decided to do a big ol' piece on the front pocket. I wanted it to be a boy pony, and Steamer was both my first boy pony and also one of my first G1s, so it seemed like the perfect choice! I bought the bag last week, started the piece at the beginning of this week, and then...

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...I finished it today! There are lots of mistakes and things I could have done better, but honestly I couldn't be more happy to have it come out as well as it did. Especially since I've never tried it before...I was expecting it to be a hot mess ^u^; But thankfully it was more tedious and time-consuming than difficult! Anyhow, now I have an awesome bag for future pony events >u<