Pile o' Ponies!

[altivo]

Got some cash for my birthday and Christmas, mainly from my mate's Mom. Usually I buy books or music with it, but this year I warned her I was going to buy plush toys. She knows we have a huge number of them in the house already, since she visits for a weekend now and then. She just smiled and said "OK".


Today we had a chance to go shopping and stopped at Toys R Us. I wanted a really big cuddly horsey. They had them, even some with wings. That would have been my first choice, hooves down, except they were only pink or lavender. So I settled for this big paint with a circus saddle. He's really huggy. I also got a couple of small sized ones to give away, and just couldn't leave behind the dark bay in the middle foreground. The others, including the small paint pegasus sitting on the saddle and the Clydesdale on the right, have been around for a while, but none were large enough to really cuddle.

A Pile of Ponies Christmas 2005: I decided to enlarge my herd of ponies. New members include the largest in the background, the small paint facing the camera, and the bay who is nuzzling the paint here.

My mate won't let me bring horses into the house, so...

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[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

The main reason the horses can't come in the house is, they won't stay on the ground floor, of course, so then they'll go upstairs (quite the operation in itself) and, no matter how careful and considerate they are, you'll hear KLOMP KLOMP KLOMP all afternoon. I don't want to even contemplate how they'd come down the stairs so they can go back out to the barn. It's really better for all concerned if they stay outside. You're quite lucky that they let you come visit them in their "home."

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Ranch style here, all one level, no stairs up or down. There are stairs in the barn, though, really steep ones leading to the former hayloft. One of ours got into the tackroom once and tried to go up those. I wasn't here, but Gary had quite a time getting him to back down and leave the tiny space.