Playmobil "Dressage" set?!`
JJ
I found this because a relative gave suggestions to us for some gifts
for little cousins of my DH and I was looking at the Playmobil stuff
available...found this at Target!
http://www.target.com/Playmobil-4185-Dressage/dp/B000N1Z4QQ/ref=sc_qi_detailbutton
Yes, that's a "Dressage" set...<grin> Of course, they have "jumps"
included, but still...it's adorable! They have another equestrian set
and a vet set (very cool)...
They didn't have this stuff when I was a kid! Geesh...but I just
thought it was cute...
The cousins are not "horsey" per say...they are into the eqyptian
sets, and that's what they'll get...but I had to share this. So, if
anyone has some youngin's they'd like to "infect" early with horsey
love...these are cute! :-D
JJ
Tara
news:4d499f9e-2ae3-4184...@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
> OK, I had to share this...
>
> I found this because a relative gave suggestions to us for some gifts
> for little cousins of my DH and I was looking at the Playmobil stuff
> available...found this at Target!
>
> http://www.target.com/Playmobil-4185-Dressage/dp/B000N1Z4QQ/ref=sc_qi_detailbutton
O.M.G. Love it!
--
Tara
Dawn J-L
> OK, I had to share this...
>
> I found this because a relative gave suggestions to us for some gifts
> for little cousins of my DH and I was looking at the Playmobil stuff
> available...found this at Target!
>
>
> Yes, that's a "Dressage" set...<grin> Of course, they have "jumps"
> included, but still...it's adorable! They have another equestrian set
> and a vet set (very cool)...
>
> They didn't have this stuff when I was a kid! Geesh...but I just
> thought it was cute...
>
Playmobil has GREAT stuff.
--Dawn JL
who has even purchased some Playmobil figures for some adult geek
friends :-O
Judie
> OK, I had to share this...
>
> I found this because a relative gave suggestions to us for some gifts
> for little cousins of my DH and I was looking at the Playmobil stuff
> available...found this at Target!
>
>
> Yes, that's a "Dressage" set...<grin> Of course, they have "jumps"
> included, but still...it's adorable! They have another equestrian set
> and a vet set (very cool)...
>
> They didn't have this stuff when I was a kid! Geesh...but I just
> thought it was cute...
>
> The cousins are not "horsey" per say...they are into the eqyptian
> sets, and that's what they'll get...but I had to share this. So, if
> anyone has some youngin's they'd like to "infect" early with horsey
> love...these are cute! :-D
>
> JJ
Ha ha JJ, I think that is a wonderful present for a horsey kid! I
adopted a 10 year old girl through United Way (for Christmas presents)
and along with the usual stuff - games and some big girl dolls, I got
her a playset of horses. I did this "just in case." I wonder what the
odds are that a girl likes horses?
Judie
JC Dill
> Ha ha JJ, I think that is a wonderful present for a horsey kid! I
> adopted a 10 year old girl through United Way (for Christmas presents)
> and along with the usual stuff - games and some big girl dolls, I got
> her a playset of horses. I did this "just in case." I wonder what the
> odds are that a girl likes horses?
The percent of 10 year old girls who don't like horses is probably about
the same as the percent that don't like dolls.
When I was 10 I didn't play with dolls, I played with horses. I never
saw the appeal or fascination in Barbie. I wanted to ride horses and
play ball with the neighborhood boys, not play dress-up with dolls.
jc
Judie
Well I did get a bunch of different games. One said it had 16
different games (like backgammon, chess, and Chinese checkers) all in
one. I got her two doll sets and they both came with an animal. One
had a pet cat and the other had a pet dog. LOL. They are the
Nickelodean 'Brats" dolls. If she doesn't like them she can trade them
with someone else I suppose!
I played with both horses and barbie dolls.I loved to make clothes and
cut and style their hair and do their makeup! I also played with
stuffed animals like they were families and had their own dramas. I
had a truck and horse trailer with 2 horses. It was fairly big like a
tonka. And I also had hot wheels cars.
Judie
JC Dill
> On Dec 14, 9:51 am, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Judie wrote:
>>> Ha ha JJ, I think that is a wonderful present for a horsey kid! I
>>> adopted a 10 year old girl through United Way (for Christmas presents)
>>> and along with the usual stuff - games and some big girl dolls, I got
>>> her a playset of horses. I did this "just in case." I wonder what the
>>> odds are that a girl likes horses?
>> The percent of 10 year old girls who don't like horses is probably about
>> the same as the percent that don't like dolls.
>>
>> When I was 10 I didn't play with dolls, I played with horses. I never
>> saw the appeal or fascination in Barbie. I wanted to ride horses and
>> play ball with the neighborhood boys, not play dress-up with dolls.
>>
>> jc
>
> Well I did get a bunch of different games. One said it had 16
> different games (like backgammon, chess, and Chinese checkers) all in
> one. I got her two doll sets and they both came with an animal. One
> had a pet cat and the other had a pet dog. LOL. They are the
> Nickelodean 'Brats" dolls. If she doesn't like them she can trade them
> with someone else I suppose!
Oh, I wasn't criticizing your choice to get her dolls! I was saying
that I thought horses were every bit as likely to be enjoyed! Most
girls like both, but the few girls who don't like dolls are probably
*very* likely to like horses. :-)
You done good Judie.
jc
JJ
I had both as a kid...Barbie dolls (and similar) and horses. ALL my
dolls rode the horses! :-) I also had matchbox cars and a Barbie
Corvette that Ken was *not* allowed to drive! LOL!
But the Playmobil stuff is very cool! ;-) JJ
Judie
I get it now! Thanks!
Judie
Judie
>
You are funny! Why didn't Barbie let Ken drive? Was it because it was
her car? LOL.
Judie
jmc
Me too! Wouldn't play with a doll unless it could ride my horses. Had
quite a collection of Breyers, (plus a few of those big plastic
articulated beasties); used Lincoln Logs and Legos to build stables for
them.
My father was quite dismayed; I was a textbook tomboy. Still am, come
to that - don't have kids, don't own a dress, don't even own or wear any
makeup.
jmc
JJ
> You are funny! Why didn't Barbie let Ken drive? Was it because it was
> her car? LOL.
But of course. It was her Corvette after all. And Ken drove too
slow. She also had a really impressive three story "condo" and an RV
(the RV was the coolest thing - I actually wish I still had it!)...and
several horses and other friends.
:-) It was about as "girly" as I got. I liked the dolls, but they
were all tom-boys like me! :-) JJ
JJ
>
> Me too! Wouldn't play with a doll unless it could ride my horses. Had
> quite a collection of Breyers, (plus a few of those big plastic
> articulated beasties); used Lincoln Logs and Legos to build stables for
> them.
>
> My father was quite dismayed; I was a textbook tomboy. Still am, come
> to that - don't have kids, don't own a dress, don't even own or wear any
> makeup.
OMG! We *might* be related! :-) When I met my DH...for our first
date, I borrowed a dress from my roommate (I was in the AF) and my
best friend's coat (it was winter in CO). I did have shoes, but only
because simple black, low heels were part of the female's dress
uniform (if you wore the skirt option, which I only did when required
to).
I don't think I've worn a dress in ...Hmmm... Oh Lord, I honestly
cannot remember. Do I even have one that is wearable (i.e. not so
totally out of fashion it would embarrassing)? I might put a bit of
no-color powder on my nose and wear plain Chapstick...does that count
as makeup? ;-)
<sigh> I'm not the only one...I knew that. JJ
betsey
> OK, I had to share this...
>
> I found this because a relative gave suggestions to us for some gifts
> for little cousins of my DH and I was looking at the Playmobil stuff
> available...found this at Target!
>
>
> Yes, that's a "Dressage" set...<grin> Of course, they have "jumps"
> included, but still...it's adorable! They have another equestrian set
> and a vet set (very cool)...
>
> They didn't have this stuff when I was a kid! Geesh...but I just
> thought it was cute...
>
> The cousins are not "horsey" per say...they are into the eqyptian
> sets, and that's what they'll get...but I had to share this. So, if
> anyone has some youngin's they'd like to "infect" early with horsey
> love...these are cute! :-D
>
> JJ
And not a rollkur to be seen!
Hunter Hampton
wrote:
>OMG! We *might* be related! :-) When I met my DH...for our first
>date, I borrowed a dress from my roommate (I was in the AF) and my
>best friend's coat (it was winter in CO).
Were you at the Academy? What a beautiful place! I was there a few
years ago. Loved the church.
I still have a post card, that my dad sent me around 1960 when he was
just a major. It's a picture of all those 18 year old Airmen
marching.... lots of them <g>
All it reads is,
"Don't you wish you were here"
Love, Daddy-O
(Daddy-O was a common expression back then)
Hunter
JJ
wrote:
Hi Hunter,
> Were you at the Academy? What a beautiful place! I was there a few
> years ago. Loved the church.
Not stationed there, but lived very close to it. I lived on Peterson
AFB in Colo Springs, but worked at Cheyenne Mt. (NORAD), now a closed
base. The Academy is also in Colo Springs. It is a beautiful base.
The deer love it too. If you're walking about, you'll often have deer
coming right up to you to check you out!
> I still have a post card, that my dad sent me around 1960 when he was
> just a major. It's a picture of all those 18 year old Airmen
> marching.... lots of them <g>
>
> All it reads is,
>
> "Don't you wish you were here"
>
> Love, Daddy-O
>
> (Daddy-O was a common expression back then)
Very nice! :-D
I was enlisted, not an officer. I worked for a livin'. <wink> OK,
all you former or current officers out there, you *know* we enlisted
always say that so don't be offended! ;-)
JJ
betsey
We were at the Army Navy game saturday...Katie had a WONDERFUL time
chatting with both cadets and midshipmen <g>...and had her picture
taken with a group of very cute cadets!
Katie's intention is to apply to the academies...she's been told...if
you apply to one, apply to them all. of course, we still have some
time (she's a sophmore now).
and uhm...JJ, let's be real. As the wife of an Air Force Major...does
ANYONE in the airforce really work? isn't that why it's called "the
country club" by the other branches <grin>
betsey
Nancy DeMarco
> I don't think I've worn a dress in ...Hmmm... Oh Lord, I honestly
> cannot remember. Do I even have one that is wearable (i.e. not so
> totally out of fashion it would embarrassing)? I might put a bit of
> no-color powder on my nose and wear plain Chapstick...does that count
> as makeup? ;-)
I spent my childhood wading neck deep in swamps, collecting salamander
eggs, sitting in the tops of pine trees, dismantling stone walls in
order to find snakes, playing with the neighborhood boys (the girls
were boring)... and playing with horses, of course. Dolls - yuck. I
tried to sit them on my plastic horses, and when that didn't work out,
I was done with them.
I have a few dresses saved from high school and weddings that happened
20 years ago - does that count? Chapstick is the only thing I put on
my face. I have no idea how to apply makeup, and I cut my own hair.
> <sigh> I'm not the only one...I knew that. JJ
Not by far.
Nancy
Judie
I rode my uncles very trusty horse, Lady, when I was 4. After that, I
was obsessed. So I started to draw horses. My dad would bring home
used computer paper from work with one side blank and I would just
draw and draw. I never erased because I had so much paper! If I mess
up, I got a new sheet. One day when I was 5 (the next summer) I
thought that maybe if I could draw a big horse it might be like having
a real one. So I took my crayons outside and made a "lifesize" (to me
at the time) horse on the patio and I laid down on it so that I would
be in the position of riding but it was pretty dissappointing. LOL. My
mom also got me some weird sculpting clay that you had to wet down to
make soft and I would sculpt horse heads and stuff. I spent more time
drawing horses than playing with any toy during those years. Then in
elementary school I introduced my friend to horses and she became
obsessed as well. We had our imaginary horses out on recess every day.
This friend also liked to draw so we would just draw and draw all day
at school. We also wrote songs and recorded them on the tape recorder
and we made sock puppets and plays and even made a soap opera movie
with her brother who was dressed like Alice Cooper. My friend was in
love with Alice Cooper for some strange reason. We played with breyer
horses in the grass in the summer. We created a "wild life" club and
had our own song and emblem. But we also played super model and put
colored chalk all over our faces for makeup and then took turns being
photographer and super model. So not tom boy but definitely artsy.
Judie
Judie
My mom's parents immigrated from Italy. My cousin on my mom's side (25
years older than me) married another Italian who became Cheif of
Police in a suburb of Denver. They are not rich and they are not
military as far as I know, but somehow, their son attended and
graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. I think they
must have some mofia connections! LOL.
But I did get to attend the son's graduation and it was spectacular!
They had the Blue Angels doing fly-bys and everything. It was very
grand. Also, when that second cousin got married, they had all his
cadet friends as groomsmen and they were wearing their white uniforms
with their white rifles and they made a tunnel for the bride and groom
to exit through. It was really something! There must have been at
least 12 of them.
Judie
Judie
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Wildlife Club Song
With the butterfly who lost his wing,
And the little bird, who could not sing,
The frog and the toad, who jumped no more,
And the eagle... He did not soar.
Refrain:
The wildlife - it's treated wrong
It's weaker now - lets make it strong!
We'll find a solution
To stop the polution
Now
With the reindeer, who had a fear
Of man, extinction's near
And the buffalo who lost her young
And that is why..
This song is sung.
Refrain
Dr Corinne B Leek
wrote:
>I was enlisted, not an officer. I worked for a livin'. <wink> OK,
>all you former or current officers out there, you *know* we enlisted
>always say that so don't be offended! ;-)
My reply was that I was one of the few kinds of officers that *did*
work for a livin', too! LOL!
I also was an absolute tomboy. Dolls were to be taken
apart/undressed, tossed in a corner and ignored. Mom rapidly learned
to not bother getting me dolls.
Books, however....
It quickly became a problem of what book to get me because what had I
not yet read?
When I was about 13, I had a wonderful Christmas gift from my parents:
my very own sitting chair and matching footstool for my bedroom and a
*big* box of second hand books (lots of classic horsey ones! Tic Toc,
and others whose titles I now forget).
I still have the chair and matching footstool, although reupholstered
years ago. My very first pieces of furniture that were, indeed,
*mine*. :-)
And those Christmases when my brother Rob would be setting up the tree
because Dad was off working.
And the times when Dad would send us a real "live" telegram for
Christmas because he'd be in Europe or somewhere. (He was an airline
pilot.) Telegrams were always so very special back in them thar days.
And the time I went to Toronto to be with Rob and his family and we
went out to cut a tree for Christmas. My nephew was only 3 or 4 at
the time.
sigh.
Listening to Christmas carols on the radio and thinking of family and
folks who are now gone.
Memories can be a Good Thing.
Although I keep thinking that a lot of those newer "carols" are
reflecting the Greed Season. :-(
Corinne & Crazy Canuck Crew, waxing nostalgic....
--
*** Conserve Energy: Laughter is easier than Anger!
*** cl...@ns.sympatico.ca
betsey
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THAT is awesome!!!
Judie
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LOL. Can you imagine 2 girls singing their hearts out? OK - I remember
a horsey song we wrote for fun.
The Strides That He Took
The strides that he took
were too much for me
And before I knew it I was a fly'n
I flew over the mountains
and splashed into the sea
Boy that horse was too much for me.
Refrain:
Too much for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
too much for me
The strides that he took
was too much for me
that dad burn horse was too much for me.
I got back on his back
and I gave it another try
He kicked up his heels and I went a fly'n
I flew to Japan
And that's where I am
"Pass the sewey sauce please"
Refrain
CM 2
a half year old grandson and myself are watching "A Charlie Brown
Christmas". <sigh> Where do the years go............
Candy
betsey
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My dad (now 79) used to sing this to me when I was a VERY little girl
(and he still sings it to me!)
Horsies in the Snow
Horsies in the snow,
oh wouldn't you look at them go,
those Horsies in the Snow!!
you guys are bringing back all the memories (no dolls here.....wanted
critters and ponies!!)
Judie
Aw, your dad sounds very sweet. I was a daddy's girl. My mom was
strict and liked to keep everything in order. So my dad got to be the
"good guy." Plus he liked horses too.
Judie