A friend of mine from the barn and her mother have been taking me along with them to her mini trial shows this summer, and I've been paying for 1/2 gas money - I figure it's the least I can do for taking Sandie and I along!
I want to get her and her mother something nice at the end of the season as a gift for letting me tag along all summer with them...but I need ideas!! They both ride, both have horses, and my friend is going into college this year (she just graduated high school)...her mother is in her early 50's...anyone have some good gift ideas?!
I like the Gift Certificate idea. It works out best, IMO. They can choose whatever they'd like, or need (Because us horse riders always 'NEED' something!) Haha.
And to answer your question in my thread, I was from NE Ohio too. I rode in Valley City (Near Medina). I had taken the 5 year old DWB I was working with at the time to the Rolling Rock, PA mini trial. But that was the only one I was able to take her to before moving out West.
oh WOW yeah you were right near me! I love Valley Tack, I buy so much stuff in that store lol! My barn is in Medina, right on Rt. 18! I've been to Grand River, Stone Gate, and Hackamore so far...missed the PA mini trial...but same series! What a small world!
Gift Certificate is good.
I like the picture frame with their pictures already in it. It would be cool to have them both with their horses in the same pic, and have 2 framed so they both could have one.
Haha... and between you and I then, I'm sure we've given Valley Tack QUITE a bit of money!
Thats the bad part of having such a nice tack store right around the corner. Lol!
Oh! And have you tried Samoskys pizza, right there on 303, right down from Valley Tack?
Amazing. Really. (I had to be a fatty and add that in. I totally miss that pizza...)
My horse is at Pleasant View Farm (the old T&J's), right on Rt 18 in Medina, close to Bath (where Rt 18 intersects 94). Valley is kind of a hike for me, but so is EVERY tack shop and theirs is nice! Big Dee's also has a HUGE selection and great prices so I go there a lot too.
No I have never tried that pizza place, maybe next time I'm in the area! I live in Copley, like 5 mins from the barn in Medina where I board my horse. My trainer is Rob Rohrer, he's been in the horse world for a looong time...did you ever know him? (he knows so many people esp in the hunter and eventing world lol)
Oh ok! No, I haven't heard of him... the only main Eventer in Northeast Ohio that I knew about was Jeff Taylor. I was supposed to start training with him but then moved. (Seems thats the case with everything, haha).
Being in my "early 50's" I can tell you some of my favorite gifts I have received. The book "The $700 Pony" I laughed outloud through the whole book. Someone gave me a little cowboy hat that is a refillable air freshener for my car, for some reason I love it. I always like getting riding socks and gloves. My family gave me a fleece fly spray mitt for Christmas, I use it all the time. Is there a training DVD or horse movie they want? That would be a little more spendy. I always wish people would give me DVD's of the horses at the Olympics and stuff because it is so much fun to watch but they are also expensive. and personally I like horse notepads for grocery lists etc.
One more idea, a gift certificate for an unusual helmet cover if they wear them, this place has tonshttps://www.helmetcovers.com/index.php?cPath=2&sort=2a&page=2&osCsid=129cf50a91e29842b85892904d44a344
Oh wow I LOVE the helmet cover idea!!! What a neat website!
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