It was interesting to have Christmas and New Year's Day on Wednesdays this time around. Mom says it felt like several weeks condensed into two for her, since she would go to work a day or two, then be home for a few, then go back...
It was great. We're all bummed about everything going back to normal on Monday. It's hard not to feel let down this time of year, but we can only hope there will be lots of bright spots in the bleak winter months ahead.
As we enjoy one last holiday-ish weekend, we're also looking back fondly on the holiday season we had.
Here's what Mom's view was like on Christmas morning: warm (I think it hit 50 degrees!) and green.
As usual, presents galore were piled around the tree downstairs!
Mom deemed this her prettiest present. We have video evidence that this particular roll of rocking horse wrapping paper has been around since the 90's! The last remnant, which sat in the bottom of the bin for years, was finally used.
Here are Mom's gifts!
The gel pack looking things are reusable hand warmers. It hasn't been bitterly cold enough for Mom to try them out yet, fortunately. Most of the other items have been put to good use already, though.
And here are a few more gifts from another family Christmas gathering a few days later:
The "pasture bedtime" pj pants made their debut on New Year's Eve. =)
A new year means a new Girl of the Year doll from American Girl.
Goodbye, Blaire Wilson, and hello Joss Kendrick.
I've never heard this name before in my life and at first thought I'd read it wrong. I wonder if it's short for Jocelyn or something?
After a doll that looked a lot like Felicity in 2019, 2020's looks a lot like me! However, she also seems to be about as different from me personality-wise as Blaire was from Felicity. Joss is a competitive, spunky surfer from Southern California who also decides to dabble in cheerleading. *Tries to imagine self succeeding at either activity...* Nope. Not in this lifetime, even with two fully functioning ears. (Joss does all this while rocking a hopefully waterproof hearing aid... unless she leaves it on the beach while she surfs?) I'll stick to horseback riding, thanks.
Not the most attractive cheerleading outfit out there, but it does look realistic.
Joss's surfing bulldog, Murph, is a cutie. I love his? her? wrinkles, little tongue, and the brown and white diagonal socks.
That's not to say we have been suffering from any lack of cool horses. Felicity found an even taller horse than "Arabian Dancer" this morning: a 19.3 hand stallion appropriately named "Mountain."
Surprisingly, this behemoth is tied with Windfall as the fastest wild we've ever caught.
We found our shortest wild so far back on the 29th, a tiny 7.1 hand stallion named "Lincoln."
And finally, this afternoon, Windfall and I witnessed another exciting first for us on the game. We were doing some aimless wandering in a rainforest after delivering a letter when I spotted a chestnut wild horse up on a ridge. When I lassoed it, text appeared on screen about about it being a "lucky find." (This is a fairly new feature to the game: that occasionally one can catch a purebred horse in the wild, a "lucky find.")
Here she is!
Not that I'm an expert, but she does seem to have more ideal conformation than any of our Grades. XD She also has the highest stat total of any horse we've ever caught! 1016!
She's also very brave (slightly braver than Gryff, even) and very playful! Aw!
Extremely curious to find out what breed she is, we teleported back to the nearest club and had it determined. She is *drumroll* a Riding Finnhorse! =^) I'm not sure what she was doing hanging out in the rainforest, but we sure are glad she was! <3
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