Dear Pony Pals

Crandals Stables is holding a virtual New Years Eve party and sleepover on Thursday night, December 31st. For this day only, our daily live moderated chat will be replaced by this sleepover. It starts at 8pm EST and goes until midnight EST. Because it is a Holiday week in Wiggins, Pam, Anna and Lulu are on vacation. Lulu's dad has promised to stop by. It will be great to see Lulu, who hasn't been to our barn at Crandal's stables much since her dad came home to visit.

In other news, this week Wiggin's St. Francis Animal Shelter has really enjoyed our membership's holiday sharing. Hundreds of members looked at their inventories and have chosen to donate their extra gifts and old tack items by dropping off items in the "donation bin" that is now on Kline's Hardware front porch. Any member can do this. St. Francis will be a better place for all our members' generous donations.

For a few days yet, our gift catalog has a "stuffed stocking" that offers members a way to give apples to their friends.

And members who are pals with Pam, Anna, Lulu, or Mrs. Crandal are getting some special Holiday gifts that change every few days.

The results are in for our Coloring Contest #7

winner Horseshoe & Stardust
runner-up Skipper234 & Acorn

Enter Coloring Contest # 8 with a deadline of January 3rd, or
Enter Coloring Contest # 9 where the deadline is January 15th.

Deadline for the December story and poem contest is the last day of this decade, December 31st. If you've entered this competition, you will get an email announcing when this contest's entries are available for review. Voting will start January 8th.

Every day hundreds of new members sign up and ask for Pal requests. Take a moment and see who's just signed on recently with our "Pals, Please Page." Our world has some great ways to meet other pals. Click here to learn more. Please send a card to someone who is new!

Our game changes all the time, if you log in and weird things seem to happen, please clear your computer's cache.  See the instructions here to learn how.

Members ask me all the time "how do I earn more bucks?" Anybody who wants more Wiggins bucks is missing out if they don't enter one of our contests! Details are below. We need funny cartoons, they should be in black and white.

Pals,

 

Pony Pal Contest Calendar

Drawing of the Week Contest

 

Winners each get 500 Wiggins bucks. If you want to enter, send your art to the Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to:

Club Pony Pals
16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382
Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA

If you want a sticker and bookmark make sure and include a mailing address where we can send it!

Cartoon Caption Contest -- This week's caption winner

Vote for your favorite caption for this cartoon --

Write a caption for this cartoon --

What's your suggestion for a funny caption for this cartoon? Deadline is Friday. Email it to Contests@clubponypals.com

Look for the entries in the next week's e-newsletter and vote for your favorite.

Winning caption gets 500 bucks, runners-up get 100 W bucks each. Captions should be short.

or draw a cartoon --

We are looking for cartoon artists, too. Draw one and email it to us by Friday.

If it is selected, you can earn 500 Wiggins bucks! Hint -- for this contest, draw your cartoon in black and white. If you want to enter, send your art to the Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to:

Club Pony Pals
16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382
Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA

Member Photo Gallery

i love my horse wade he is 5 and i am 11. For me riding is my dream come true wade and i compete in many varietys of shows. I want to say thanks for making this awesome web site. champion1234 & wade

Member Art Gallery

Dear WebMaster

Here are some drawings that I did. The one with the horse and the worm is for the cartoon contest. The one with the palomino by the stream is for the art contest. I hope you like all of them. Your pals, Skipper234 & Acorn

Envelope Art From Members

Mistyhorse11 & Snow Love

Horsie Holiday Carols

Dear Club Pony Pals
Here is a song I made up.
 
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
and a happy new year!
Good tidings we bring to you and your pony;
Good tidings for Christmas and a happy new year.
Oh, bring us some hay;
Oh, bring us some hay.
Oh, bring us some hay and a cup of good cheer
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go in stall we get some, so bring it out here.
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
We wish our pony pals a merry Christmas;
And a happy new year!
 
From
Justin804 and Snowy

New Postcards

Each postcard entry wins 200 Wiggins bucks. All art must be original, it cannot include clip art or copyrighted images.

If you want to enter, send your original art to Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to:

Club Pony Pals
16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382
Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA

Member clubs!

Guest Editorial -- and a reader response!

DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA O'H.

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Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except (what) they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church, New York's Sun
editorial Sept. 21, 1897

 

a reader response

... if her friends say that Santa Claus was not real. this is what I say If you see him then he is real. I'm 10 I still believe. tell your friends that there wrong from me. funkyunky & remy

 

 

Dear Pony Pals Send in your photos, stories and drawings for our contests. e-mail them to Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to: Club Pony Pals 16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382 Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA If you want a sticker and bookmark make sure and include a mailing address where we can send it! Please include your user name and pony name in your letter, too. Webmaster

 

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Pony Pal Thoughts for the Day

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want. ~ Zig Ziglar

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. ~ Samuel Johnson

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Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day. ~ Helen Steiner Rice