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Dinascar · Dec 28, 2018 4:22 PM

Passed SBA, flaxen liver brindle warmblood stud 2yrs old - still GMTable.
I am lucky and have another.

CFF LivBr3413764

I would like to know your strangest Christmas present ever.

I will chose a winner based on what you write.
Everyone participating will win a present (a straw of your choice from my studs, including my hom satin stud who will be of age in Jan).

I will end this Tuesday 1st Jan at noon game time :)

Was going to auction him but thought this would be nicer to do!

Dinascar · Dec 28, 2018 9:32 PM

Ping!
Bit like bump but higher and less likely to be painful :)

Haltanny · Dec 28, 2018 10:04 PM

I think I was 18 or so when i got a roll of aluminum foil and a package of assorted "pipe cleaners" (you know, the fuzzy wire things for crafts).

(I don't need him, just wanted to get the fun started! )

Wolvevenfrosst · Dec 28, 2018 10:14 PM

@Haltanny I would have so enjoyed to play with those! Use the aluminum foil to create the bodies of creatures and the pipe cleaners to use as arms/ legs/ tails and etc. I like crafting things. :x

FeldingFields · Dec 28, 2018 10:21 PM

My dad gave me a blacklight flashlight when I was in high school. It ended up coming in handy for a couple of natural history projects in college (scorpions fluoresce under blacklight and it attracts insects), but at the time I mostly flummoxed. Like, why? He mentioned something about it reminding him of a lightsaber and I liked both lightsabers and the color purple (both true), but it was still very random.

Pro tip though - don't play around with your blacklight flashlight in your freshman year dorm room. Just wait to turn it on until you get outside. You don't want to know.

Wolvevenfrosst · Dec 28, 2018 10:27 PM

@FeldingFields poor you. You should have know it would show those things. :))

FeldingFields · Dec 28, 2018 11:00 PM

There was a point in my life where I very innocent and naive - despite watching CSI religiously since middle school. Silly me, thinking that the school would bleach things.

SilverAleki · Dec 29, 2018 12:52 PM

My strangest ever Christmas gift I was given was seven folded squares of cloth about the size of handkerchiefs.

Just plain old cloth lol.

Seven of them.

To this day I have no idea why I was given them or what they were for or even what I was supposed to do with them haha! I have one rather eccentric aunt who commonly gives out...curious gifts lol!

AgainstTheOdds · Dec 29, 2018 3:43 PM

Battery post cleaners from my Grandma. There was a great discussion as to what they could be. I had to explain.

DevilsParadise · Dec 29, 2018 5:02 PM

Well, I get dog and cat treats for Christmas every year. Since my husband and I don't have kids, this is the closest that my mom and aunt get to buying for grandchildren :D

Windigo · Dec 29, 2018 7:14 PM

Horse feed... I was 15 and that was what I wanted for Christmas, so that's what I got, 30 sacks of horse feed. :-))

HTRanch · Dec 29, 2018 9:14 PM

My grandparents love to send us gifts, but they rarely arrive when they are supposed to. It's common to receive Christmas presents from them in March. They are always filled with weird little trinkets and some festive paper napkins. I got a thanksgiving/Halloween box from them at school and decided to open it with my roommate. After we unwrapped the gifts, we pulled out the packing peanuts at the bottom of the box to throw them away and nearly had a heart attack! Rolling around in the bottom of the box was one of those gory looking rubber fingers that people use as Halloween props. After calling them to thank them for the box, I deduced that it was not a prank, they genuinely wanted me to have this gory little rubber finger. My roommate and I hid it in the freezer for our other roommates to find >:)

WhiteMountain · Dec 29, 2018 10:13 PM

Ever since I was about 10 years old, I have loved whales. I had posters of whales, books about whales, and watched all the tv shows I could about them. Including “Flipper”, of course! I was active in supporting nonprofit organizations that opposed whaling.
My dad was always keen on sailing and wooden ships. Somewhere he found an antique sperm whale tooth intended to be used for scrimshaw. He thought I would love it. I opened it Christmas morning. I thought it was amazing and beautiful, but I realized it was a remnant of an awesome animal that had been killed by people. I spent the rest of the day trying not to cry for the whale... not too sucessfully.

srauch23 · Dec 29, 2018 10:20 PM

One year my mother wrapped a bottle of penicillin and gave it as a gift because several of our rodeo horses had contracted strangles and were on medication for a week plus. I was pretty grateful for this odd gift as it saved me from having to go buy more lol.

paradoxphoenix · Dec 29, 2018 10:30 PM

My strangest Christmas present was a notebook with my wedding pictures on them— AFTER I had left the man. “Well you can just tear the cover off and use the notebook.”

... yeah. A torn notebook for Christmas. Thanks. :)

Justa · Dec 29, 2018 11:11 PM

I've had horrible Christmases too, lost relatives and even spent the day digging a grave for a four-legged family member twice, but I'd rather go with the strange gifts thing.

The strangest Christmas present I ever got was from my niece. It was a set of banding pliers and the little rubber bands used with them, along with a bottle of iodine. I had to explain to my family and some visiting relatives that the band were to neuter baby goats with, then exactly how they worked. I was waiting on five doe goats to kid and the previous year I had gotten seven bucklings from them so my niece wanted me to be prepared for the same again. The does retaliated by having mostly doelings that year except for two little boys, and they were both so nice they ended up as herd sires so I didn't use the bander at all. By the next year, nobody knew what happened to the banding pliers so I ended up buying yet another pair. :))

Rivermoons · Dec 29, 2018 11:12 PM

My great grandmother once gave me a calendar for the next year, and a ton of Christmas, thank you, birthday, and blank cards... I guess she thought my 9yr old self needed to write more.

Dinascar · Dec 30, 2018 3:04 PM

I love reading these!
I also made a draft liver brindle mare to offer if people prefer:-

Liv Brin3561318sell

My weirdest pressie was my old great-grandaunt sending me large sized adult full brief knickers when I was 7 years old - strange - I can only assume she was not wearing her glasses at the time! :)

RedDeeFarms · Dec 31, 2018 8:28 PM

My strangest present was a coaster crocheted to look like a cat's bum :-)) I don't have it anymore because one of my dogs destroyed it when they were a puppy. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever gotten. You have to love secret santa at work!
=))

Dinascar · Jan 1, 2019 4:05 PM

I am going to end this early as I am off out later.
I loved reading these.
I tend to get dog/cat treats for Christmas too and obviously horsey related items - again I have no kids so the closest my parents will get to grandchildren (except my bro has 2 kids and 2 grand-kids - that's plenty in my book ;) ).
But I am going to give RedDeefarms first pick of the mare or stallion.
And HTRanch you may have the other (after RedDee has got back to me).
Everyone is welcome to 1 straw from any of my studs
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and I will also send all who commented a straw from The Dream now.

RS The Dream

Thanks everyone and a Happy New Year :)

WhiteMountain · Jan 1, 2019 7:41 PM

Thank you. Dinascar.. this was fun! And thank you too, for the straw from The Dream. I love satin!

May I have a straw from Star child Eclipse, please? Satin And Nexus!

2G Solorn Eclipse

Dinascar · Jan 1, 2019 7:52 PM

@WhiteMountain Sent and good luck!

Justa · Jan 2, 2019 1:37 AM

Thank you! :D Could I get a straw from this gorgeous guy? I have a Gold mare who'll hopefully cross great to him.

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Rivermoons · Jan 2, 2019 3:28 AM

Thank you Dinascar

WhiteMountain · Jan 2, 2019 4:23 AM

Thanks, Dinascar!

srauch23 · Jan 2, 2019 6:07 AM

Thanks! Can I get one from this guy?

Br G2 AugustCandy

FeldingFields · Jan 2, 2019 2:03 PM

Thanks! May I get a straw from this fellow?

CFF 4GDPSplMFR2735597

Dinascar · Jan 2, 2019 2:03 PM

All sent :)

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