Hey Marty guess what I did?

[Denise]

I got out the Christmas lights and decorated the barn, as I hung the lights I thought of you and wondered if you've gotten started yet? I could not bring myself to play the beach boys

I alternated the green and red rope lights all the way around the inside of the barn and it really does look great!

Got some more ideas?

 

[Marty]

I am so proud of you. You just made my day worth living!

I do keep my lights on the barn to a minimum. I'll let the house burn down but not my new barn.

Ideas? Oh you must be joking....I'm the Christmas idea gal. Stockings? Got stockings for your horses? Wreaths? I do not do tinsel and garland though because it can shed and they can eat it but how about some cardboard Christmas pictures that you can just staple gun up? And what about some Christmas music in the barn? The Beach Boys DO have a wonderful Christmas CD but mine is worn out, and now they're dead....except Brain and Al and Mike....... boo hoo hoo.....

I'm putting a big Santa at the entrance probably and whatever else I can find in my storage. Maybe a reindeer or an elf. There has to be a star on top too somehow. It's going to be hard this year to do anything because we don't have the vinal siding on yet. Nuts, but I'll do something even if it's wrong.

Now here's an idea for you:

After Christmas is over, go to the stores and ask them for their decorations. They will give them to you happily. Last year I got about 15 two foot tall and two foot wide big old cardboard wreaths that had been suspended from the ceiling in JCPenney's or some store. The year before that I got about 10 giant elves. ......

Nick will have a mistletoe hanging from the rafters in his stall. The girls of course get ribbons and bows.

Can you post a pic?

 

[Denise]

I will have to get some stockings, I need to find some that are horse specific. A wreath is doable too! I do keep the radio on 24/7, I'll have to find a Christmas station soon. I'll try to get pics of it at night it really does look pretty.

 

[Marty]

My stockings cost a buck from the Dollar Store.

You can just personalize their names and then do an iron on picture of a horse if you need to but I didn't because they know they are the horses. But you can maybe take their picture and iron it on to their stocking.

 

[Denise]

The stocking idea is great! I can see them now, I am going to get some and then write their names across the top in glitter. Now I cant wait to get to the dollar store.