Merry Christmas!

I don't know about you all, but one of my favorite Christmas gifts to myself is riding on Christmas afternoon. And since I am on barn duty for a few days, no one complains when I leave the house for a few hours. After all, I have to clean stalls and check on everybody!

I got an early Christmas gift thanks to Tracy from Fly on Over who orchestrated the Blogger Gift Exchange. And like most of you, I started ripping the box open before I thought to take any pictures. By the way, the gift exchange was a ton of fun, and I hope Tracy will do it again next year.

Thank you very much, "Appy Does Dressage!"

While Hubby was peering over my shoulder asking who sent it, I quickly recovered my wits and grabbed my camera to document my cool gifts! Many thanks to Appy Does Dressage who writes the blog, Musings from LogDog Acres, for a boxful of awesomeness!

Inside, I found a bag of horse treats (they went into my barn bag immediately for prompt dispensation), a horse pin, a hand made wreath created from the very precious tail hairs of Appy's appaloosa, and a brand new stock tie. The blog post about what happened with the stock tie will come soon. Here's a sneak preview: Imagine Hubby, a Youtube video, an hour later …

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas with your loved ones; the bipeds and the quadrupeds!

Appy's ornament hung with pride!