It's that time of year again. The Amish are cutting their feed corn (by hand), hauling it to the mulcher (by mule and wagon), and feeding it into their silos (by machine). Those silos are pretty tall!
You DO NOT want to get behind the mule wagon on a hill. It takes forever for those mules to get those wagons to the top and you can't pass until you are at the top of the hill. I try to stay away from Lancaster this time of year. Too many hills and mules on the 896. (Major 2-lane highway from Lancaster to Lincoln University.)
The Amish are selling their pumpkins by the side of the road. This is a farm just across our sub-division. The Stoltfuses just leave these pumpkins by the road with a little can to put your money in. Two dollars each. That is their house way back there in the distance.
My mums are starting to bloom! The yellow ones are 3 feet high!! Can't wait for the burgandy ones to blossom forth. The Amish sell mums in little pots for $4. Everyone out here buys a dozen or so plants and decorates their porches and homes with potted mums. The first year we got some mums and planted them. (What did we know?) They come back every year bigger and fuller then the last. I have to start putting cages and wires around them in July so they will stand up in September. (Learned that from the year we had mums bending over and lying all over the ground. Not a pretty sight.)
Next to change will be all the leaves on my trees. I think fall has arrived.
2 comments:
I miss mums!!!! And the Amish from our stay in Missouri. Maybe I'll try and plant some this fall (mums, not Amish.)
I love your blog Nancy. Keep up the awesome posts. I feel closer to the Amish :)
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