Just wanted to send a sincere thank you to Nadia at 3day Adventures with Horses, my Secret Santa! She gave me a C4 belt with a nice foxhunting scene!
The scene is a little more gruesome than your average hunt though, which I find pretty amusing.
There’s a funny story behind this whole blogger gift exchange for me this year. I signed up at The Printable Pony blog in November, but I didn’t see my name on the final list of participants, and I didn’t get any info about my Secret Santa via email. The rational side of me said, “Oh well. Must have been a technical glitch.” But the rest of me said, “SCREW THEM! If they don’t want me in their stupid little blogger club, I’ll make my own!”
Hence, the Equestrian Pen Pal program I’ve started. No joke. Of course I had the idea kicking around before then, but good old fashioned spite and resentment was what truly motivated me to get the thing set up.
Anyway, last week I received the C4 belt and a lovely Christmas card in the mail from Nadia. Uh oh. I frantically emailed The Printable Pony. Was someone expecting a gift from me? Then checked my Spam folder…yep. There was my Secret Santa assignment, and I was just seeing it the week before Christmas.
So I baked some last minute Toll House cookies for the East Coast Equestrian and some oat, carrot and applesauce cookies for her horse Donner and mailed them Priority the next day. Hopefully they enjoy my frugal gift!
And maybe I should learn a lesson about being less quick to jump to the worst possible scenario and take vengeful action…but it ended all good in the end, so why bother?
Thanks also to The Printable Pony for organizing the blogger gift exchange. It is no small feat.
Merry Christmas, bah humbug, etc.
Ha! If it makes you feel any better, I always feel a little out of the blogger inner circle. Oh weird, internet based insecurity, my old friend.
That is one gruesome hunt scene, but pretty epic belt.
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This has almost nothing to do with your post, but I am so glad you added me on Instagram! You were always one of my favorite blogs, and then when you changed domain names I must have forgotten to update you in my RSS reader. Time to catch up on your posts!
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Likewise!! I have been only occasionally lurking the Equestrian blog world since I switched jobs and got more into foxhunting than writing but now I’m back into it. I always virtually check in on your adventures with Connor every now and then!
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