What you may not know about me,

is that I have a great interest in Amish folk.  Over the past month or so I have spent many hours scouring websites and blogs to find out how "the plain" live.  I have always wanted to visit Lancaster PA, drawn there by "old order" Amish; never truly knowing why.  I am finding that there is so much more to know about Amish districts and those that belong to the Amish Mennonite church; the lives of  former Amish individuals that have chosen to leave, even with the knowledge that they will be shunned by their family and other community members. 

I have become a material girl in this common world of ours with all the electronic toys it has to offer.  My favorite time was after a storm this past summer we were without electricity from the grid for almost a week, but yet we  bought a generator and found ways to charge all the toys...aaahhh the quiet in the night was wonderful with the exception of it being broken by the sounds of generators throughout the neighborhood.

If all your electronic toys were taken away, "do you" know how you would survive first mentally? and second physically?

Lousy Photography, But It Makes My Point 8-)