{"id":1390,"date":"2009-12-21T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2009-12-30T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T04:48:48","slug":"christmas-trees-and-pigs-and-goats-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/christmas-trees-and-pigs-and-goats-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Trees And Pigs And Goats, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What’s the one thing you don’t want to do when acquiring a Christmas tree? Drink the goat water. We figured we couldn’t put off getting a tree any longer, so we went to Motley’s Christmas Tree Farm and Pig Racing Stadium<\/a> on Sunday. Motley’s is chock full of holiday fun. There’s the petting zoo, the racing pigs, the shop full of Christmas-themed junk, the hayride and, of course, a field full of Christmas trees.<\/p>\n

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Abby wanted to feed the goats before we did anything else.<\/p>\n

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After getting a good dose of goat slobber on our hands, we went out to hack down a tree. Abby yelled “Timber!” as the mighty 5-foot Virgina pine, the monarch of the great old growth forest, crashed to the ground.<\/p>\n

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Then we skidded the beast by hand out to the road for the 90-second hayride. Abby brought her bucket and shovel in case we happened upon a beach out there.<\/p>\n

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After the hayride we were off to the pig races. The guy running the races had quite a stand-up routine to go along with the pig show. The pigs were all named after Santa’s reindeer. Abby got a big kick out of that. He let the swine race around the little track three times and Dasher won every race by several lengths. I asked him if Dasher always won and he answered, “No. Sometimes we switch up the names.”<\/p>\n

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With temperatures in the mid-50s we got chilled to the bone. The free hot chocolate was a God-send. A little kid in another group had a wall-eyed fit when he discovered marshmallows weren’t available.<\/p>\n

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Then it was home to trim the tree.<\/p>\n

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What’s the one thing you don’t want to do when acquiring a Christmas tree? Drink the goat water. We figured we couldn’t put off getting a tree any longer, so we went to Motley’s Christmas Tree Farm and Pig Racing Stadium on Sunday. Motley’s is chock full of holiday fun. There’s the petting zoo, the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,77,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abby","category-christmas","category-family-fun","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}