Worst horsey gift
My mother has a cousin that is, to put it mildly, an interesting sort that always found the most outlandish gifts, always accompanied by a long rambling letter about her garden, her battles with the wildlife to get anything edible out of said garden, and her various imagined illnesses. She includes hand-drawn diagrams (“See Fig 1 for the great battle with the rabbits”). One year she sent my sisters and me oversize pens in the shape of green beans, corn ears or carrots. Another year, during the summer, she grew an eggplant with a plastic mold so it had a face, dressed it up in doll clothes, made it a wig and sent it to us (from TX to OH in August!), along with a long hand written story about Eggzella the Eggs-cellent Eggplant:eek: As kids we thought she was pretty cool–who knew what would be in the package? As we got older, things just got silly.
When I was about 16, this cousin decided to open an in-home busines making jewelry made only of jems mentioned in the Bible, because your jewelry should “make a Christian statement”.:rolleyes: She sent me a hideous necklace for Christmas, made of big chunky red and blue beads, with a faux silver bucking bronco horse pendant. I like simple, small jewelry and I never wear anything with a western motif. And even if I had wanted to wear it, the necklace would have been too heavy–it was literally made of rocks.
I think it is sitting at the bottom of my dresser in my room at my parents’ place…over 10 years later. I have never worn it. What’s scarier is that the jewelry selling business is still viable:eek::eek::eek:. Somebody is buying that stuff!
BlueEyedSorrel
They thought it would be good for when I walk out in the large fields to catch my horse. Well my large boarding farm does have lights and no matter what time of night I can easily find my horse and not to mention he is stalled at night in the winter.
