Would Amish country be near Millersburg Ohio?
At 11AM this morning it was 74F, but is saw on the weather page that just 100 miles to the West it was 10 degrees colder. So I expected it to get cold at any minute. Anyway now 2 hours after the Sun went down it's still 69F.
At 11AM this morning it was 74F, but is saw on the weather page that just 100 miles to the West it was 10 degrees colder. So I expected it to get cold at any minute. Anyway now 2 hours after the Sun went down it's still 69F.
You will note that the State of Ohio made the roads about 50% larger in the direction of the buggies, accommodating the folks. (The buggies go clockwise along a predetermined route for the courting youths!)
According to the literature in the hotel, 24% of the world's Amish population resides in Holmes county Ohio. Much of the businesses that interface with the non Amish population are located on SR 39 from I-77 west to Millersburg. We have found small pockets of Amish populations near I-77 all the way north to Canton, and scattered east all the way to the Ohio river. We routinely visit an area in Ohio about 20 miles south of I-70 and 20 miles west of the river, where there are several large Amish farms. We go to the food auction for some of the best produce on the planet.
We were in Millersburg, but it has changed a lot since I was last there, 3 or 4 years ago. Much of the down town area is now empty shops. The crowded sidewalks were virtually empty. We drove east.
Berlin was a bit more populated, but much of the "Amish stuff" in the shops has been replaced by Chinese "antiques". All the stuff in each shop was the same Chinese junk. It all looked the same.
Walnut Creek, ditto. I found a pair of 1990 vintage Motorola cell phones for $5 in an Amish junk shop, so I bought them. I worked for Motorola for 41 years.
Sugar Creek. ditto. There was a junk shop way off the main road that had several interesting but way overpriced items. A Fender Squire Stratocaster guitar for $150. I have the exact same guitar, same color. Mine cost $129 in a music store new. There was some no name solid state amp for $250, maybe 10 watts weighed about 4 pounds, made in China. Then there were the tubes. A big box full of used TV tubes, no boxes. $5 each for the small ones, $10 each for the big ones......yeah right.
Today we went north to the Hartville flea market. There I got a Ross Graphic equalizer for $20, and several toys for the grandkids, cheap.
Tomorrow it rains, so back towards home...the outdoors weather is over for now.
SR 39 has had buggy lanes along both sides for years. Now many of the more rural roads have buggy lanes along both sides. Some of the smaller roads still have "buggy exhaust" scattered down the traffic lanes because the buggy lanes have become unusable, or don't exist.
Many of the Amish residents have accepted, or even adopted some modern ways. Get 10 or 20 miles off the tourist routes and you can drive for miles without seeing a power line or cell phone tower. There are large farms nestled next to each other in the rolling hills. It is common to see a farm run entirely by human and horse power, but you will come across a few farms with the farmer sitting on an old Ford or John Deere tractor, and a wind turbine, solar panels, and a Direct TV dish out back. We pulled into a little restaurant several years ago to see a sign "buggy parking only, motor vehicles must park in the rear".
Much of the labor that built our house was "modernized Amish" Daddy was driving the pickup truck, with his 5 oldest kids in the back. Much of their communication was in German. All or their work was top notch, and the only power tools were circular saws and pneumatic nailers. No table saw was ever used. No cell phones, but some of the crews had small microwave ovens for their lunch breaks. They show up at dawn, but leave exactly at 4PM every day.
My wife's cousin lived near Millersburg. After retiring and then getting a replacement heart, he purchased a very large van, powered by natural gas. He then drove the Amish on trips. The van had a trailer for more fuel and luggage.
OK, that's enough, you can turn the rain off now. The reservoirs are full, the streets are clean, we don't need anymore.
And while you're at it could you turn the heat back on? This 10º stuff is not all it's cracked up to be.
And while you're at it could you turn the heat back on? This 10º stuff is not all it's cracked up to be.
Send the rain over here Cal (Mr Mooderator!!😀😀😀, those 'talians!😉)
We've got the 10 degree stuff.
We've got the 10 degree stuff.
True enough. I was wishing for sun back in April and Father Nature turned the taps off for the next 4 months.
We are beating records in the Netherlands for highest temperature this time of the year, close to 20 degrees C in some places. (C stands for 'Canadian', as I recently learned on this thread.)
Took me 10 minutes to get all the ice off the car windows. It was 28F this morning. About -2 of those Canadian degrees!
AT LAST...some real rain here in S.Scotland. River Tweed running at a 6' flood which will clean out all of the silt accumulated over the longest period of very low levels for many years.......hopefully fit to fish by Wednesday! It will certainly bring in the Salmon!! Strong winds and the Mrs found tennis difficult this morning - 13C...could do with a frost!
Yes, Mother's would never do that to us.
Good news there Brian. Tell the missus next time you're in this neck of the woods, you can fish from the river bank or have a round of golf while we play tennis, all within eyesight of one another.
Cal - I guess that's true - mothers have much more important and psychologically damaging ways to mess us up to bother with the trivial 😛
