Amaretto Breedables Customer Connection

Happy Friday Everyone !!! Hope everyone is having a good breeding day !!

This week i had the pleasure of interviewing Leandra Kohnke, she is in the group so when you see her give her a big hello !!

Please tell the community a little about yourself. Where you are from and what brought you to Second Life?

I am a retired scientist of human genetics from Winnipeg Manitoba in Canada. I got into Second Life as my retirement neared and I decided I want to play more and to make connections with other scientists who are also playing in SL.

I am a Star Trek fan and one of my favorite Star Trek quotes is one Mr. Spock said:

“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play”

How much simpler can it get to enjoy the simplicity of play than in Second Life?

Which Amaretto Breedables do you own?

Horses, chickens now.

How did you get started in breedables?

I started with the bunnies.

Do you own other breedables besides Amaretto?

I do PlantPets which are fun and undemanding.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto Horses?

Oh my! What and I not doing might be easier.

I came up with the first original special horse after the Vamp. The Woodland Elf is mine. I have had several special project horses over the years. My current and longest lasting special project is my Sun Horse with all orange and sun themed extras. This is as close I have to perfect thus far.

Coat: Red Walker
Eye: Sun and Moon
Mane: Long
Tail: Long
Coat Gleam Low
Hair Gleam Low
Coat Luster Low
Hair Luster Low
Coat Hue Orange
Hair Hue Orange
Coat Opal
Hair Opal
Sun Branding
Ear Size Scanty
Wild Hair: Amaretto 2nd Anniversary Horse
Wing: Pumpkin
Bridle Orange
Wing Opal
Horn Sunset
Saddle Orange

Every time I get close to being finished Amaretto comes out with a new trait or a better one. I don’t think I’ll ever finish it.

I am also trying to get the last 2/24 possible Zodiac coat/eye combinations. I need Cancer Pearl and Libra Sapphire so I am breeding Zodiac eye horses. A lot of them are Mystique siblings as well. I am also working on getting the rest of the Confection horses. I have two. I guess I will collect Dazzles after that.

I am also breeding Percheron sibs to try for an Albino Percheron. I have at least one of all the albino types except Percheron and Exmoor. Once I get a Percheron albino then I’ll try for an Exmoor albino. I have a pair of albino clydes, one double warmth and one double chill and they are also full sibs. Long story behind that pair but it was great fun.

I also like to collect bundles with traits of all possible coat and eye. I have every at least one bundle of every coat except for Brown and Grey, and Silver Dapple Saddlebred
Cream & Silver Icelino Glacier, and Spotted Exmoor Buff, Chestnut, Copper, Fawn. I have all eyes except Pumpkin Spice Latte, Mulled Cider, and Hot Buttered Rum. Well a few of the newer ones I don’t have yet. I still hunt for those old missing ones when I am going through bundles.

I also collect LEs and special horses. So I have at least one pet of all types of the charmed, LEs, Galaxy, Showhorses, Elementals, Haven horses, donkeys and mules. It is so much fun collecting them! I keep them near my race track at 1700m in Nerice. I can train horses and admire my lovelies at the same time. I just started doing it a few years back and I keep adding them as new ones come out. It’s grown into a lot of pets now but I love it. I guess I feed my inner hoarder in SL. My absolute favorites are the Galaxy set. Another special favorite is one time I accidentally bred sibs in my Sun Horse project and I got the loveliest orange albino I kept as a pet.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto K-9s?

None. I tried them but I kept accidentally letting them starve because they didn’t hold my interest. Its weird because of how much I love the horses. Silly me.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto Barnyard Birds?

I think the barnyard birds are the absolute best animated chicken in SL. I am breeding a selection of colors which I will turn into pets to run around in the sim I manage as part of the “decor” at the old fashioned windmill.

What is your favorite Amaretto Breedable ?

Horses, no question.

What are some other things that you enjoy doing in Second Life when you’re not taking care of your breedables?

I am co-owner of Breedable Bartering along with Kini Barbosa. Keeping on top of that can be time consuming. People take their horses and their barters very seriously!

I help out with Virtual Ability. They help bring people with a wide range of disabilities into Second Life, and provide them with a supporting environment once here.

I also was assisting a university course associated with Wayne State University that as held in SL at the graduate level. I did that for six years but we are taking a year off.

I also manage an estate on a whole sim in the Mainland called Nerice. I made a parkland with trails for riding horses around a lake with a year round Christmas Land on one corner and a lake in the centre. It’s open to the public so everyone is invited to visit me in Nerice.

I also do some amateur scripting and building.

Sometimes I just go riding in SL. I Love taking my Memorable Haven Horse I named Michelangelo riding int he night sky in SL.

I have included some pictures of Leandra special Amaretto Breedables . Thank you Leandra for letting me interview you for this weeks connection.

Until next week Happy Breeding !!!