What will you be doing on Christmas Day

I would love to ride on Christmas morning but unless the weather is good I'll pass on it as there will be time on Boxing Day - pub for lunch with OH and my mother and two other couples. Make our excuses about 3pm to get back to do horses and dogs before it's pitch black, home, evening alone.
 
Get home from nightshift about 8am. Sleep til about 3. Go to yard, muck out, give the boy his Likit selection box to open, have a Christmas cuddle, come home, find something to eat, 8pm go back to work! Just another day.
 
Planning to ride both of mine, then having dinner with a friend, mine live out so will be fed at lunchtime. If the weather is dreadful I won't ride, it is a hobby!
 
Put out 4 horses, muck out 1(mine)and set up the stable so I don't have to go back for the evening shift. Then it's off to work in the pub kitchen as we're feeding 90! Home ASAP where my daughter will of cooked off the prepared dinner I hope. After there will be a few baileys on ice in front of the fire and chilling.

I'm organising a Boxing Day morning hack from the yard to the pub which will take about 3 hours. I'm hopeing there'll be a few of us. We will be tinselled up and it will be lovely to ride through the lit up stone cottaged villages, weather permitting.
 
this year im not working >>> :D

so sort pony out early as possible - give her a ton of hay (shes in my choice)!....muck out etc - exercise her in some form....and enjoy christmas as it should be - with my family :)

dinner at my dads - mums at her bf's... and dog's checked on every few hours...

back at some point to feed the pony :) :)

good day :)
 
Up at dawn as usual. Down to yard to see to my horsey friend and a littler horse friend. Home, shower and then a drive to London to visit my husband's folks. Home in the evening. My dad will skip out and do the hay and water in the afternoon (Love you dad. All grown up and he still does things for me)
Boxing Day, still up early, down to the yard to see to my horse friend. Ride my horsey friend, she will be fresh having been in all the previous day. The children can ride the littler horsey friend. Turn out both. Have my folks round for lunch. Back down to the yard to bring in and feed. Not sure whether I am doing the littler horse friend yet, that is still to be decided with his owner.
 
Same as any other day. Up at 3 am, milk cows, feed calves, farm jobs. Feed and turnout horses about 7 am, muck out so all done for evening. Carry on with farm work. Milk again at 2 pm finish around 5 ish, bring horses in then a quick dinner and bed by 7.30 ready to do it all again boxing day. Not really that sad though!! We have a releif milker in for 27th, 28th & 29th so we have our Christmas day on the 27th.
 
Up and out by 6.30 (after getting in at 4) sort hangover out, muck out, quick canter for the hunter livery as he's out Boxing Day, turn out, do everything ready for Evening stables. Cynical yes but it's same ****, different day!
 
RoughcutDiamond said:
Get home from nightshift about 8am. Sleep til about 3. Go to yard, muck out, give the boy his Likit selection box to open, have a Christmas cuddle, come home, find something to eat, 8pm go back to work! Just another day.
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Same. I'm working too but my mum and dad has said they'll come over (they live 200 miles away) to cook me and my OH Xmas dinner as we're both working nights. My boy's Likit selection box arrived today and the OH is gobsmacked that it's for a horse, no human selection box ordered for him - I forgot. He's 32, he can do without one but the pony is better behaved so he deserves one ;)
 
Up about 7 and go and muck out/feed/give the lad his christmas Guiness. Back home for present opening with the kids, and smoked salmon and Cava for breakfast. Spend all day cooking and chatting to family. Someone else has been press-ganged into giving horse his evening haynets...and he's on a small yard to himself with open access to his stable, so he'll just mooch about for the day. Me, I'll be comatose in front of Dr Who, fill of christmas dinner and more cava.

None horsey family, so I try not to let horse impact family christmas...they put up with my absence, smelliness, mud, filth, and constant financial frittering all year, so christmas is for human (and canine) family as far as possible.
 
Our yard shuts at 2pm on Christmas day and Boxing day *sobs* it's the only thing I have a real problem with at our yard :(

Just makes those days stressful and I rarely enjoy them because I'm worrying about trying to fit everything in without letting my horses and family down.

#humbug
 
My christmas will consist of waking daughter up about 7.30 (she's 12 and doesnt do excited anymore) watch her unwrap presents.
Have breakfast.
Go up to the yard about 9.30 and present her with her main present. The pony we have had on loan for the last 6months is now hers. She will be wearing a nice happy xmas sash and a bow :)

I also have a feeling she may want to ride her after the surprise. Then muck out turn out and home to my parents for dinner.

Back up to yard about 3.30 to bring in then enjoy a couple of drinks with friends.

Im a bit excited to see her face on christmas morning at the yard. :) :)
 
Cover the horses and ponies in tinsel, santa hats on the helmets and parade around the village ! There are a lot of pony mad kids in the village and the elderly in particular love to see them (sadly there are lots of lonely older people, it really makes their day to come out and give them a carrot :) ). Then get tack scrubbed clean for the boxing day hunt and return home to enjoy my grandma's excellent cooking :D
 
Same as usual get up earlier than OH and son, feed horses, cats and dogs. Walk dogs put hay out for horses then back in for breakfast of chocolate. Get OH and son up open 'Santa's gifts' then straight to my parents to join the rest of the family for a catch up then to MIL's for Christmas lunch and home early evening in time to start again with all the animals. Lucky for me my son has always been late getting up and now he is a teenager he is even later getting up so have no problem seeing to all the animals with no disruption to the rest of the family.
 
wake up straight to the yard, turf the nags out and come home and open presents :) then usually go for a hack after dinner then see the rest of relatives later on cant wait!
 
This is the first Christmas where it will be just the 2 of us so will be normal up before the sparrow has cracked a fart to sort out the horse. Now looking after friend horse full time so will have him to do too, but he will be suitably fiddled with to send a seasonal picture to his mummy before he frequents the Equine Spa for the day. Not sure if Nugz will be in or out at the moment will depend on him and the state of his field. Back home to cook some sort of breakfast, or make Christmas lunch (Beef Wellington) into brunch, then back to the yard to sort the boys out mid afternoon and then either veg out, or drive to OH's parents that evening, instead of morning of boxing day.
Or we might end up doing something completely different :D
 
Family breakfast and opening of pressies. Then down to the paddock to ride, maybe go to the beach or if it's not a beach day cut thistles (to work off breakfast). Then light dinner with family. Joys of a Kiwi Christmas in the middle of summer.
 
Rolo--Chilli said:
My christmas will consist of waking daughter up about 7.30 (she's 12 and doesnt do excited anymore) watch her unwrap presents.
Have breakfast.
Go up to the yard about 9.30 and present her with her main present. The pony we have had on loan for the last 6months is now hers. She will be wearing a nice happy xmas sash and a bow :)
I also have a feeling she may want to ride her after the surprise. Then muck out turn out and home to my parents for dinner.

Back up to yard about 3.30 to bring in then enjoy a couple of drinks with friends.

Im a bit excited to see her face on christmas morning at the yard. :) :)
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How fabulous ! I know that is all I ever wanted for Christmas when I was 12 !
 
Ground hog day. Same old, same old. No different from any other at all.

We are really "bleugh ... " about it this year so it will be just another day. Miserable old gits that we are :)
 
Spring Feather said:
I will be doing a lot of Christmas Day horse work on Christmas Eve so it will be minimal work on the Day, just have to feed all the horses and then I'm done (hopefully). Will stack the fire up, have a yummy cooked breakfast of pancakes, bacon and eggs. Wait for everyone to arrive so we can open the presents. Celebrate a bit with champers and then off to friends house for Christmas dinner and plenty of laughs.
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Sounds perfect!
 
Mums doing tom xmas day as its OHs first xmas off in 10 years and its the kids first and 2nd christmas so we are opening prezzies at ours his mums for lunch then my mums for the rest of the day.

As for tom i think he will be thrown out in the field first thing then brought in at about 4
 
I will be bringing in my ponies early am for nice brekkie while I have a sherry and mince pie with my two liveries; If it ok weather we well go for a quick ride, turn out , then I have 8 for lunch so crack on with the turkey!

Will check on the horses around 4pm, poo pick, then that's me done for another year; Then we eat all the leftovers christmas day evening washed down with a port or two :)
 
Up early as usual, turn out, muck out the 4, head inside and have some brekkie. Phone my friends at work who are on duty then out to see the family and grandchildren ( best part of the day) then home stick the turkey in the oven, all prep for the rest of dinner done christmas eve, leave husband the times to switch on or put other stuff in the oven, bring the guys in, feed and set fair around 4ish then in for dinner and champers just the 2 of us this year about 4.30. Veg out in front of the tv with drinks
 
I hope you have got a camera ready to take the photo as she realises the pony is her's and I would love to see that photo!! What an amazing Christmas she is going to have. Very lucky girl.
 
My YO will feed him for me, so I won't be horsy at all on Xmas day!! TBH mostly because it is a private yard and I would feel a bit like I was intruding on Xmas day, but also because I like to have a lie in, and he enjoys the day off!!!
 
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