KATONAH - Enjoying her first day at home in five months, Martha Stewart put on a demonstration of gracious living Friday, walking her chow chow, feeding treats to her horses and harvesting lemons in her greenhouse.

"People make jokes about making lemons into lemonade," she quipped.

She even sent out cups of hot chocolate to the chilled reporters and photographers recording her every move.

Just hours after completing her five-month stretch at the federal lockup in Alderson, W.Va. for a stock scandal, a smiling Stewart, who will soon be confined to five months of house arrest, continued to project the softer, more approachable image that she cultivated in prison.

"It feels great," she said, when asked about her first day at home. On the subject of breakfast - she hadn't eaten yet - Stewart said she had missed "the idea of cappuccino" more than the actual beverage.

"I didn't really miss material things at all," she said later to the reporters gathered at her estate. "It was kind of nice to have a rest from the material things. And from this," she added, laughing and pointing to the media horde.

Wearing an ecru quilted coat and matching knit scarf, the 63-year-old Stewart and a companion took her dog, Paw Paw, into a snowy paddock at midmorning.