Carriage Hill Christmas 12-15-2024
Christmas Party Like its 1899! Carriage Hill hosts an annual Christmas event where you can walk around the farm and check out all sorts of cool stuff. There's some farm animals and a black smith forge and some baked goods in the houses kitchen.
I probably should have taken a picture of the front of the Arnold house. This is the main hosue at the historical farm that belonged to the Arnold's. They have their diaries and historical records. Look at that gnarly tree.
Serioulsy look how spooky that tree is.
The main room of the house had some ladies making some victorian era decorations and Christmas cards. They were putting cloves into oranges which make a decorative smell good item. They also showed a clip on candle holder to put on your Christmas tree which seems like a LOT of risk for a very little reward.
Here's a Christmas card featuring Santa stuffing naughty list kids into a sack.
This room was very warm with that big awesome cast iron stove. They were making period accurate treats. The gingerbread cookies tasted like dry rotted wood out of a musty basement. Would not recommend. The other treat I forget what it was but it was passable. What a miserable time to be alive. I'd probably spend all day working the fields too if that's what a treat was. Just keep me busy so I don't think about those miserable baked goods.
In the outdoor kitchen they were popping corn! You could get a serving of fresh popped popping corn which was pretty nice. They also had a big bown and some kind of berry for stringing together some decorations. The kids liked that and managed to not stab their fingers with the threading needle a million times.
Here's where the pop corn was being popped.
I took a peak in the basement window beyond the EMPLOYEES ONLY cellar door. There wasn't anything that cool going on in here. Just some guy on a break or something.
Here's the cellar doors. Irresistable, now you know why I had to peek in the window.
I'm not sure why there was a Santa in a tractor but here he was. I guess we got there late becasue as we were arriving the tractor fired up and hauled Claus outta there!
The sheeps were inside the barn getting warmed up.
Look at that sheeps cute little face.
The horses were tied up just outside the barn. When we first arrived they were out prancing in the fields. I wonder why they got hitched up? I am not a horseman.
Here's the pig pen although I could not find any pigs. Where did they go? This looks like a premium location for some wallowing around in mud.
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