Abby decided she wanted a Halloween pumpkin, so rather than just picking one up at Kroger, we decided to go in for pumpkin getting experience. We headed out to Garner Homestead Family Farm in deepest Garland County. The Web site promised a petting zoo, a corn maze, hayrides and a pumpkin field. This place has pretty good PR, but the actual experience is a bit of a letdown.
Well, the petting zoo consisted of a pen of goats, another pen of piglets, and a pen of chickens, ducks and a turkey. Abby seemed to enjoy it.
This photo of the corn maze makes it look more impressive than it actually is. The corn patch was about the size of half a football field and situated on the side of a quartz-strewn hill. The poor soil resulted in a stand of corn you could see over and through. It was impossible to get lost in there, thus defeating the maze’s allure.
Abby posing in the corn with the man with no eyes.
Abby’s $7 admission fee entitled her to a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. (Pumpkins didn’t come with the $5 tickets Gina and I bought.) I didn’t get a picture of the pumpkin patch because it would have looked like a picture of an overgrown pasture. The towering weeds hid the tiny pumpkins. Abby picked one of the larger ones and we made her wash it in the creek.
The next day we carved the tiny pumpkin into a scary vampire jack-o-lantern.
Comments
that last shot is cute cute cute!
Thnaks for letting us in on the Great Punkin experience. Was Charlie Brown invloved? Good pictures.