@FrenzElectric - Actually, a few Amish got locked up in these parts a few years back, some for child abuse and others for production of meth.

@Cookstergirl88 - glad you got a laugh

@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - They are a friendly lot, whenever I come across them on the road they wave at me but they think I am one of the horsemen of the apocalypse when I wink at the Amish women.  Sometime I may have to share the stories about the holes in the sheet antics.

@Garistotle - I was looking for butter churning pics but the only butter churners were Amish women.

@AdamsWomanFell - See the thing with Rumspringa is that not every Amish group practices it.  The ones around here don’t give their children that option.  A few kids have broken off and it gets pretty messy.  My mom worked with a girl who broke away and went to college to become a nurse.  Her parents wouldn’t talk to her and if any Amish came to the hospital they refused to let her treat them or they would ignore her.  I have only hear of one regular person joining the Amish.  A guy my age met an Amish girl and he converted.

@anth0nyc - glad you enjoyed

@leaflesstree - oh you’d go wild with all these Amish guys running around with their bowl cuts and not using deodorant because deodorant glorifies the body and not God.

@James2012 - glad you enjoyed.

@MysticRythms - oh yeah, you know they are up to know good when they come by in their buggies at 5AM

@LaughOutLoudLauren - I think the closest I’ve seen to a rebellious Amish kid around here is a boy wearing sunglasses and rollerblades.  They don’t usually communicate with non-Amish but they always wave when they pass my house.  Actually the other day while I was taking a break from picking apples and leaning on my picker, a buggy pulled up and they asked if I needed any help.

@boilingicicle - Well maybe I’ll have to share some of the hole in the sheets stories

@lvlylucia - glad you laughed

@ShimmerBodyCream - yeah I love that one, I think that girl is the girl who plays Erin on The Office.

@Ampbreia - I know, just the other day I saw an Amish man carrying a case of peppermint schnapps.  I think it was for a wedding because he also had a shopping cart filled with celery.  Seriously, he had the whole cart filled with celery.  They don’t use flowers at weddings.  They use celery because it serves a dual purpose for decoration and eating.  Almost every food they serve at weddings contains celery.

@Rob_of_the_Sky - I wonder if it’s for all the Amish kids on their Rumspringa.  We don’t have those near me, I think there’s only one within a half hour. You know any Amish that gets offended by that song isn’t devout.

@emily_shannon - Well if you’ve ever talked to Amish women you’d know that having teeth is a luxury…;)

@adventofreason - The Amish kids here don’t get it.  They just are asked at a certain age if they want to join the community and if they say no then they are shunned.  The Amish here are the old school kind not portrayed in the media.  I feel lucky I’ve gotten the photos and videos that I have because these Amish hate having their photos taken because they believe it shows that at one moment they weren’t working.

@Hinase - The Amish here are old school and they do not offer their children this Rumspringa.  It’s an unheard of practice but the kids do get a little lenience when dating.  Like a few years ago I was working in a video game arcade and a group from my area came in and they wanted to play games.  I spoke with them in German and gave them a free ride on the virtual reality ride.  Their minds were blown but that’s about as wild as they get.  A lot of those documentaries on the subject are pretty bad and look at the practice in the the more modern and not entirely Amish communities.

@tinkerrbella - glad you enjoyed

@hesacontradiction - the quiet ones in the bonnets or with the bowl cuts.

@SamsPeeps - glad you enjoyed

@BenelliMan - I suppose you saw a lot of that in Tomah.  I love going to the Walmart there because you’d see people walking around in their military fatigues and then you’d see Amish walking around in their garb and then the parking lot would see camouflage vehicles and Amish buggies tied up at hitching posts.

@AdamsWomanFell - There was a short lived drama back in the late 80s that was fascinating because back then the Amish were just moving into this area and little was known about them.  It starred Merlin Olsen and was called Aaron’s Way.  It was about an Amish kid who left the community and moved to California and he knocked up a woman who owned a vineyard but then he died so this Amish family moved to California to take care of his affairs and work the vineyard.