Dear Pony Pals

Hundreds of Pony Pals from around the world crowded into our virtual barn on Friday to enjoy our virtual sleepover.  Sometimes Mrs. Crandal's virtual riding lessons got so busy that some pals and their ponies went outside to practice loading their virtual ponies into virtual trailers. In Pam's famous "20 Questions" game, a steady stream of visitors challenged each other’s horse and pony knowledge. Lulu and Anna chatted about every subject that members could imagine while they rested between lessons. After it was over, Mrs. and Dr. Crandal agreed it was like having a herd of wild ponies take over their barn.

In fact, all the Crandals have been hard at work during these winter months to get their barn ready to house lots of new ponies. The two "blank" doors on either side of members' pony stalls are about to get some new tenants behind them!

Olson's pony sale barn is closer than ever to being finished. Soon, members will be able to buy a second and even a third pony for a single account. One choice will be to trade in an existing pony for a new one or two new ponies. Premium colors like Dun and black/white overo will be available. Olson's will be a multi player space, so members will be able to arrange to meet there to go new pony shopping!

As a special pre Spring offer, when a member buys second or third ponies, they will be awarded their own personal cabin near Wiggins. Here is how our cabin's insides will look.

Our new cabins have lots of wall space to show off awards, honors, trophies, club badges, art and other displays of what honors a member has won here in virtual Wiggins. Trails miles ridden, contest winners and more new awards will all have special spots. And soon there will be many different kinds of furniture to buy for cabins too.

Next week, we'll show readers what our cabin outsides will look like.

In other news, all of our quests have been rebuilt. Now, there is a Pony Pal story woven into them. Hint: the fourth Pony Pal visits Wiggins. And after a member finishes all 25 updated quests, they will be hundreds of Wiggins bucks ahead.

Many, many thanks to all of our members who have written messages about America's free roaming horses and burros. Our collected remarks will be sent to President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Both of these high officials have the power to protect the freedom of our country's living, breathing four-hoofed heritage. Watch these pages to learn what response we get from our elected leaders.

Our story contest for February is now closed. We will have entries posted later this week. Voting starts Monday, March 8th.

We still would like to get more black and white line drawings for our CPP horse and pony alphabet coloring book. Our deadline has been extended, we will be adding entries as we get them. Our members have amazing artistic skills. When it is ready as CPP's first e-book, it the ABC's of Horses will be a great way to help kids worldwide learn their English ABC's and learn about horse and pony breeds at the same time.  

It's still snowing in Wiggins but Spring can't be far away. Maple sugar tappers are visiting their sap buckets on Ms. Wiggins' estate. One family uses a sledge drawn by a team of black percherons! Which back issue of this paper has photos of them?

Make sure and download your Coloring Contest #11 entry form, entry deadline is March 12th.

Our new virtual riding lessons are each Tuesday, from 6:30 to 7:30 Eastern Time. Lessons are held in the live moderated chat. This is a great way to work on mentally visualizing your riding -- and they are lots of fun.

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 help new members feel welcome - 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

This is a picture I have been working on and wanted you all to see it!
Ajaxsluver101 and Conditioner

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 --

Here is a cartoon I made for the contest. -- PeteyMeBlack & Petey

Can you write the winning funny caption for this cartoon? Deadline is Friday of this week. 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

HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is Famoushorse101 & Seabiscut Some of these are from a Barn I ride at, the other From a Park that Has a Camp I go to! More coming soon!!!

These are some of the goats! The goats are so cute!

This is Darkling. She is AWESOME!! <3

This is one of the AWESOME cats!

This is a photo of a pony I ride, named Oz. He is registered as POA!

This is one of the two Halflinger Ponies there. His name is Mac!

famoushorse101 & Seabiscut

 

from Ponyluv1999 & Teddy

Jane wanted a pic of our new foal, so here it is! This is Killian (Mom) And Sirius (Foal)

I meant too attach this to the other foal pic. Here is Killian and Sirius again!

Admin asked me too give you guys a pic of me on Tux, one of my horses. So, here it is! ponyluv1999&Teddy

These are some pictures of my llamas for the Wiggins Weekly. The brown llamas name is Braveheart and the white, brown, and black llama's name is Taberank (we call him Tab for short). They are both 12 years old but they will live till they are around 25. Just like horses! So Cute! Hope you like them!      horselvr101 & Ruby

Tab

My dog, Zoey, and Braveheart are best friends and they love playing together. In this picture you see them "touching noses".

Taberank

Braveheart

Dear Club Pony Pals, Hi! Thank you for all the Pony Pals books. I love ponys and horses! I don't no how to ride but I thin I am getting lessons in April. I have a lot of Pony Pals books. I have Pony Pals Planner, Pony Pals Cook book, and Pony Pals Puzzles. I am 10 and love to read. I just found ClubPonyPals.com when I was looking at the books. My parents are deciding if I can have a username.

Pony Pals Reader, Olivia R. A.

P.S. The french toast in Pony Pals Cook Book is good !!

Hi Olivia and welcome to our barn! WebMaster

by microphone & Black Dawn

by Ast & Summersault

Member clubs!

 

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

 

Play These Games to Earn Wiggins Bucks

 

Scavenger Hunt
Winner gets 3000 Wiggins bucks,
next nine members scores below that get 500 bucks each.

 

"Scavenger Hunt "

horselover18502

ellieopas12345

ponyluv1999

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Ensign

HorsesNeverFail

rider10

nippenose

Skipper234

horsemadkid10

Math Games
High scoring players in addition,
subtraction or multiplication earn 500 Wiggins bucks,
next nine players who have high scores earn 100 bucks each.

 

"Add Like Mad"

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Leiza

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kckristin

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Sarahpony

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"Subtraction Action"

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kckristin

Sarahpony

kostopulas3

microphone

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Jesslyn

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"Multiplication Station"

kostopulas3

Pampered Acres

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kckristin

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Allison Baird

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Pony Pal Thoughts for the Day

Your time has come, now hasten little snowflakes, To vanish quite away; The spring-tide hours are sounding gentle warnings Forbidding you to stay. ~ M. E. Hathaway

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The child… often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of her. ~ Maria Montessori

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. ~ Robert Lee Frost

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If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
 ~Rita Mae Brown