{"id":17195,"date":"2022-12-14T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=17195"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T23:54:28","slug":"creativity-community-and-tractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=17195","title":{"rendered":"Creativity, Community–and Tractors"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Noella Noelophile\u00ae<\/h6>\n
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Photograph courtesy of Carol Larsen and used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

The nation’s tallest living Christmas tree is alight!\u00a0 Towering over Main Street, it’s awaiting\u00a0 a special event, this weekend in California’s Victorian village of Ferndale.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/noelophile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/Noelophile_4_Lisa_Hindley.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

That event?\u00a0 Their 30th Annual Christmas Lighted Tractor Parade<\/a>!<\/p>\n

This Sunday evening, December 18th, a country Christmas celebration is happening, as local farmers and ranchers bring out their fancifully decorated tractors and tractor-drawn wagons and showcase their creative talent.\u00a0\u00a0 You’re invited to come and celebrate with them!\u00a0 Or, if you don’t happen to be local (as I’m not), a live stream will be available on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Hindley, of Hindley Ranch<\/a>, is a member of the parade committee.\u00a0 We talked about the parade, the preparations involved and the community of Ferndale–a close-knit and special town, year-round.<\/p>\n

And here are TWO early Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

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Photograph courtesy of Carol Larsen and used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

The first, courtesy of Hindley Ranch.\u00a0 On their website, they share three family recipes<\/a>–including a yummy-sounding lemon-blueberry bread!\u00a0 (A festive treat for Christmas-morning breakfast, perhaps?)<\/p>\n

Second?\u00a0 Lodging is still available, according to the “Visit Ferndale” website,<\/a> if you’re available and would like to spend this weekend in this historic California community!<\/p>\n

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Local farmers and ranchers parade fancifully decorated tractors and tractor-drawn wagons depicting holiday scenes down the Victorian Village’s historic Main Street for a sparkling country Christmas celebration!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ferndale’s 30th annual Christmas Lighted Tractor Parade happens this Sunday, December 18th, starting at 6 pm at the top of Main Street.\u00a0 Tractors line up at 4:30 pm for the 5 pm judging.\u00a0<\/em> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by Noella Noelophile\u00ae The nation’s tallest living Christmas tree is alight!\u00a0 Towering over Main Street, it’s awaiting\u00a0 a special event, this weekend in California’s Victorian village of Ferndale. That event?\u00a0 Their 30th Annual Christmas Lighted Tractor Parade! This Sunday evening, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2264,217,2191,2266,2265,1395],"class_list":["post-17195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-events","tag-30th-annual-christmas-lighted-tractor-parade","tag-christmas-lighted-tractor-parade","tag-ferndale-lighted-tractor-parade","tag-hindley-ranch","tag-lisa-hindley","tag-the-victorian-village-of-ferndale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17195\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}