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Man, that's one thing you definitely need to watch out for around here. There's several Amish communities just across the State line a couple miles north of here and they come into Lafayette to shop. It's common enough that on certain roads, you back off the accelerator and get ready to get on the brakes right before you crest a rise in the road.
It's not unusual at all to see horses and buggies tied up to a lamp pole outside of local businesses, or even the Walmart or Tractor Supply.
It was a Mennonite drive by.
ReplyDeleteOld joke; What's clip, clop, pop pop? An Amish drive by.
DeleteWhat about the horse?
ReplyDeleteI go down to Todd County occasionally, pretty close to Clarksville. Amish buggies and groups of cyclists all over the place.
ReplyDeleteYup lots of mennonite where I'm from. Almost all the store and shops have hitchin posts.
ReplyDeleteBack 20 years ago, I had do to some work with an Amish cabinet maker. Driving up to pick up him or the product, the roads around their community were always filled with Amish on rollerblades, grown men, women, and kids. I guess they used the rollerblades when they didn't want to hitch up the buggy team.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me...The Ark Encounter in Kentucky was built by the Amish. They were some of the few that could build using pegs instead of nails and screws.
Deletehow do you keep an Amish woman happy ? a couple Mennonite should do it .
ReplyDeleteThey will be living comfortably while the communist are freezing and starving.
ReplyDeleteUpstate New York, sometimes the big box stores have water troughs for the Amish carriages
ReplyDeleteOne thing for sure - when we run out of gas those folks are thinking they'll dodge the bullet - until they go to the nearest stores for anything. No gas, no trucks, no trucks, no anything.
ReplyDeleteShit, they'll do just fine. They grow food that they sell to us, their women still churn butter and sew, none of them are afraid of hard work, and they've got an incredible network of friends and family.
DeleteAmen to that. If anyone can survive the coming festivities the Amish and others of similar beliefs and lifestyles will be the ones all the rest are driven to. Simply to learn how to survive.
DeleteI have a question-
ReplyDeleteDo the hubs on Amish buggies have zerk fittings?
I'll check next time I see one.
DeleteI went to an auction right near Fort Campbell on a weekday. It was pretty much all Amish. They had 23 ammo cans of .308 that the troops kick out the helicopter doors. I gave about $3 a can. Best auction ever.
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We had two buggies get hit on a rise, just outside of town. It was right at sunset, and the driver of the Tahoe was blinded by the sun. A couple people went to the hospital, but no one was killed. Both buggies were destroyed. Fortunately, none of the horses were injured.
ReplyDeleteLeigh
Whitehall, NY
There is a large community in the Shenandoah Valley. I used to like to go out there on Sundays. I knew where to go on back roads and the boys would be having buggy races. They were some fine horses they had.
ReplyDeleteThe Amish around here have some of the finest horses I've ever seen in my life and I came from cowboy country.
DeleteI grew up and still live near Fremont, MI. We have a very thriving Amish community, and one of their biggest cash making operations is Amish Built Barns. They are the hip roof types, that people use for storage of lawn tractors and snow blowers in their back yards.
ReplyDeleteThe Amish hire a wrecker service with a trailer to deliver them, and a couple of teenaged boys go with them and set them in place.
A few years back, a drunk driver hit a horse drawn carriage, at dusk, with flashing lights on the back end, and killed a teenaged girl, and hurt several young girls with her. He got some rather lengthy jail time, due to a record of DUI's.
And there have been 2 barns that have burned down, and they rebuilt them just like you see on television shows. From start to finish, in the course of one weekend, a huge barn. And the community surrounding the Amish also supports them. You have to wonder at times, if they don't have the right idea about some things.
In my community, the Amish folks hire those of us with bigger trucks to haul things to worksites for them. Barter is always mixed in the payment process. Those ladies can cook, I'ma tellin' ya! We look out for our own in these here parts of oHIo. Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteDid you know a lot of RV cabinetry work is by the Amish in NE Indiana? They sure do some amazing quality work.
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