Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 04, 2011

Party at Elton John’s house! :D

Ian Anderson has “Heavy Horses”

Construct our Christmas list? Alrighty then.

No. Yes, and fat chance. And No. We all know these are the correct answers to these little creative minds.

Get them season passes for the local ice rink, and find a ranch that does riding lessons for them, it’ll be cheaper.

Adam could at least throw them a bone and say “If Santa sees fit to give you an ice skating rink, it would be heartless of me to disallow it. But don’t hold your breath. The same goes for the ponies.”

At least it shifts the inevitable disappointment onto Santa’s shoulders rather than his own, and Santa can handle the burden.

If Adam won’t reconsider ponies on the second floor, perhaps they’d be allowed in the basement ice rink. Instead of iron horseshoes, they could be fitted with silver skates, like Hans Brinker’s (thus tying in the precious metals).

Jeez, they sound like my kids. On a regular basis, the pastor at my church tells me “Bless you” right after one of my kids says something like what these two are saying.

But Danae’s pony Lucy sleeps with her in her (presumably) second floor bedroom!

This would have been one of Michael Jackson’s birthday parties.