Here's your chance to save some real chicken scratch, the green kind. Every year we sell a limited number of admission tickets at a huge (hog size) discount. The regular price for an "all activities" (package 2) ticket at DixieMaze which includes the corn maze, the haunted corn maze, the haunted trails, hay ride, barn swing, 600 foot zipline(new this year), the jumpy thing, EVERYTHING on the farm, is $20. This year we will sell 500 package 2 tickets for $10. I know - it's crazy! But things are so expensive these days and this is our way of helping at least 500 people enjoy our farm for less. Buy tickets
BUT WAIT... THERE'S MORE!
The lucky 500 VIP Ticket Holders will be invited to attend our VIP/Media day on September 18th one week before our season opener on the 25th. On that day we will have the grill cooking up hamburgers and hotdogs for everyone in attendance and you can be the first to try your luck with the maze and all our other fun activities. Buy tickets
HOLD ON...THERE'S EVEN MORE!
If you looked at the other article in this email you know that Billy The Exterminator and Vexcon is our maze theme for this year, Billy and his team will be at our farm on the VIP/Media day to meet you and autograph an aerial photo of the maze for each VIP. Buy tickets
WAIT...WE'RE NOT DONE!
In addition to all that, the ticket intitles you to attend the maze any day during the season that we are open and when you come Billy and Vexcon have graciously offered to give you a pumpkin from our pumpkin patch!!!! We're still working out the bugs (that was for you Billy) of how Billy is going to get out in that field and pick all them pun'kins! Buy tickets
HOLD YER HORSES...WE AIN'T DONE YET!
On the VIP/Media day each VIP in attendance will be entered in a drawing and 10 super duper lucky VIP's will be drawn to go up in that "little broke down crop dustin" airplane for a first hand aerial look of the maze.
REMEMBER, THERE ARE ONLY 500 OF THESE TICKETS AVAILABLE, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED - WHEN THEY'RE GONE, THEY'RE GONE!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Billy The Exterminator & Vexcon
Bad To The Bone!
We are as happy as a tick in a pigs ear to announce that the 2010 maze design features Billy The Exterminator and VEXCON!
Everyone in Louisiana and especially in the Shreveport/Bossier area is proud of Billy and his team! We are honored to spotlight them in our 2010 maze design. The "Billy The Exterminator" show on A&E is a huge success and it has introduced our area to millions of people across the nation in an extremely positive way.
We would like to thank the whole VEXCON team for joining with us this year and you can bet it will be a season you don't want to miss!
Soooo, bee sure to snake your way to our farm this year for farmtastic fun! Don't sit at home and play possum. It will bug you for the rest of your life and the disappointment will be stinging. Be clever as a fox and get lost at the maze. We look forward to setting bait to get you out here! After dark watch out for our web of traps and the spooks roaming the dark pathways looking for victims to exterminate (looks like we're going to have some fun with this...).
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Movies & Moonbeams
A couple weeks ago, we experienced our first "Movies & Moonbeams" event. We were at a birthday party being held at Riverfront park in Shreveport. There were crews setting up a huge projection screen on the pavillion. Curiosity got the better of us and we discovered they would be showing the iconic classic of the 1980s - "Top Gun" in an hour or so. Of course, we stayed.
By the time the movie started, 200-300 people were scattered across the park in camp chairs and on blankets muching popcorn and mingling with one another. In the background, kids ran through the dancing fountains and played the usual childhood games - tag, freeze tag, and keep away. Couples "canoodled" (after all it was "Top Gun) and young families took in the cool breeze. Yes, there was a nice cool breeze that evening.
The movie was of course just as good as when we first watched it in 1984. But, that really wasn't what mattered to me. It was the shared event, the shared experience of watching a movie out in the open. It brought to mind the lazy days of summer of my youth. We'd all pile into the family station wagon and head down to the local Drive-In for the weekly double feature. Mom and Dad sat in the car with the baby, windows rolled down, speaker in the window. We kids layed out blankets on the ground and the hood of the car. After a few minutes of playing frisbee, we settled down to watch movies such as "Bed Knobs & Broomsticks", "The Jungle Book", "ET" and "Star Wars" (the original one). We munched on popcorn mezmerized by the sites on the big screen, dazzled by the hundreds of lightning bugs and cooled by the summer nighttime breeze.
To me, "Movies & Moonbeams" is the modern day version of a Drive-In. You still have to slather on bug repellant and tote in your snacks. Instead of reclining the seats of your car, you pitch a couple of camp chairs or a blanket. But the magic is the same.
To capture your own summer magic through Movies and Moonbeams visit their website at http://www.moviesandmoonbeams.org/. Movies are held throughout the summer and fall at various parks throughout Shreveport/Bossier.
By the time the movie started, 200-300 people were scattered across the park in camp chairs and on blankets muching popcorn and mingling with one another. In the background, kids ran through the dancing fountains and played the usual childhood games - tag, freeze tag, and keep away. Couples "canoodled" (after all it was "Top Gun) and young families took in the cool breeze. Yes, there was a nice cool breeze that evening.
The movie was of course just as good as when we first watched it in 1984. But, that really wasn't what mattered to me. It was the shared event, the shared experience of watching a movie out in the open. It brought to mind the lazy days of summer of my youth. We'd all pile into the family station wagon and head down to the local Drive-In for the weekly double feature. Mom and Dad sat in the car with the baby, windows rolled down, speaker in the window. We kids layed out blankets on the ground and the hood of the car. After a few minutes of playing frisbee, we settled down to watch movies such as "Bed Knobs & Broomsticks", "The Jungle Book", "ET" and "Star Wars" (the original one). We munched on popcorn mezmerized by the sites on the big screen, dazzled by the hundreds of lightning bugs and cooled by the summer nighttime breeze.
To me, "Movies & Moonbeams" is the modern day version of a Drive-In. You still have to slather on bug repellant and tote in your snacks. Instead of reclining the seats of your car, you pitch a couple of camp chairs or a blanket. But the magic is the same.
To capture your own summer magic through Movies and Moonbeams visit their website at http://www.moviesandmoonbeams.org/. Movies are held throughout the summer and fall at various parks throughout Shreveport/Bossier.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Summer Reading
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite summer reads or choose your own.
- Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder): The book follows Almonzo Wilder, as a boy, growing up on a farm in upstate New York during the mid 1800s.
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver): One family's year of living off of what they grow and raise and buying locally. No bananas for a year! Filled with recipes and thought provoking questions on the American lifestyle.
- 1000 Acres (Jane Smiley): Nothing says hot, lazy summer days than descriptions of a Kansas farm. A modernized version of King Lear.
- Cane River (Lalita Tademy): An Oprah Book Club Selection a few years ago, Cane River follows the life of plantation slaves. Set in the luscious Cane River valley of central Louisiana.
- 29 Gifts (Cami Walker): Learn how to give of yourself daily in small, but significant ways.
- New York (Edward Rutherford): Follow the history of New York City from it's Danish beginnings through 4 centuries to the events of 9/11/01. Be forewarned, this is a big, long book, but worth every aching muscle!
- Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer): Yes, another "kid" book. But, who doesn't like a creative, vulnerable 12 year old criminal mastermind. Add a good dose of elves, fairies, and trolls and be transported into Artemis's saga.
- Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt): The summer that seems to last forever. What if you could live forever? Would you? Explore the themes of immortality and young love in this beloved children's classic.
- Crawfish Mountain (Ken Wells): Set in coastal Louisiana, Crawfish Mountain, is timely for today with its themes on oil drilling, depleting wetlands, and the Cajun way of life.
- School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister): Become intertwined with a group of cooking school students whose own lives become interwoven as they learn the importance of essential ingredients in cooking and in their lives.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Red, White & Boo!
Too bad we couldn't do a Haunted Maze for the 4th of July - Red, White, & Boo! How cool would that be. Alas, the corn & the maze itself isn't ready for such an event. But it sure is an interesting concept. Hmmm. Maybe, some day in the future.
Back to Independence Day for a moment. History tells us that the signing of the Declaration of Independence actually began on July 2, 1776. Delegates continued signing the Declaration throughout July and into August. After all, they couldn't just hop onto a 747 and cruise at high altitude for an hour or so to get to Philly, PA. Delegates like Jefferson, Adams & even Washington rode by horse and occasionally carriage for weeks, hence the signings into August.
Of course, there will always be debate as to why we celebrate our Independence on the 4th rather than the 2nd (the first day of signing) or even in August when the last signature was penned. Really does it matter when, but that we do? These men, our nation's Founding Fathers, were courageous men. By penning their signature to the Declaration of Independence, they were essentially signing their lives away with a treasonous act. Yes. Treason. If we had lost the War of Independence, these men could have easily lost their lives to the Crown for treason. Courageous indeed. How many of us can say the same for ourselves? Do we have the ability to stand up for our beliefs, even to the point of death? It's definetely something to ponder.
So again, does it matter what day we celebrate? Not really. We celebrate with barbeques, get-to-gethers and fireworks. Some communities celebrate with parades, speeches and even re-inactments. The important thing is that we collectively, as a nation, remember our roots. We remember the courage not only of the Founding Fathers, but of the farmers and laborers that made up the Continental Army. We remember the courage of normal, everyday people fighting for a specific cause that if successful would ultimately be to their betterment. Was the fight easy. No. Was it short. No. Yet, we their descendents live our lives with freedoms that many in the world still don't have. We benefit from our fore fathers' sacrifices. This is the reason we celebrate and remember. Does what day we celebrate matter? No. Only that we do.
Back to Independence Day for a moment. History tells us that the signing of the Declaration of Independence actually began on July 2, 1776. Delegates continued signing the Declaration throughout July and into August. After all, they couldn't just hop onto a 747 and cruise at high altitude for an hour or so to get to Philly, PA. Delegates like Jefferson, Adams & even Washington rode by horse and occasionally carriage for weeks, hence the signings into August.
Of course, there will always be debate as to why we celebrate our Independence on the 4th rather than the 2nd (the first day of signing) or even in August when the last signature was penned. Really does it matter when, but that we do? These men, our nation's Founding Fathers, were courageous men. By penning their signature to the Declaration of Independence, they were essentially signing their lives away with a treasonous act. Yes. Treason. If we had lost the War of Independence, these men could have easily lost their lives to the Crown for treason. Courageous indeed. How many of us can say the same for ourselves? Do we have the ability to stand up for our beliefs, even to the point of death? It's definetely something to ponder.
So again, does it matter what day we celebrate? Not really. We celebrate with barbeques, get-to-gethers and fireworks. Some communities celebrate with parades, speeches and even re-inactments. The important thing is that we collectively, as a nation, remember our roots. We remember the courage not only of the Founding Fathers, but of the farmers and laborers that made up the Continental Army. We remember the courage of normal, everyday people fighting for a specific cause that if successful would ultimately be to their betterment. Was the fight easy. No. Was it short. No. Yet, we their descendents live our lives with freedoms that many in the world still don't have. We benefit from our fore fathers' sacrifices. This is the reason we celebrate and remember. Does what day we celebrate matter? No. Only that we do.
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