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OriginalGeek

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16. yeah Sarasota has a good-sized Amish area
Thu Apr 29, 2021, 03:31 PM
Apr 2021

Lots of the handmade goods (my wife wanted a quilt until she saw the $1000.00 price tag) and some reeeeeally good restaurants.

My grandparents used to go there every year for one of their state Airstream rallies and I always asked them to bring me a pie. Now I just go down there my self. We are not above making a day trip of driving down for lunch and shopping and coming back.

Could they have been Mennonite, not Amish? Sanity Claws Apr 2021 #1
That was my thought, too. wnylib Apr 2021 #13
And all on an eighth grade education? Warpy Apr 2021 #2
Amish have gasoline-engine powered washing machines. Gruenemann Apr 2021 #9
If you've ever used a washboard and washtub Warpy Apr 2021 #20
I wish they were kinder to their animals and didn't keep puppy mills. n/t Peregrine Took Apr 2021 #3
Yes Bayard Apr 2021 #5
Yes, I've seen work horses salvaged from auction slaughter houses saved by rescue orgs PortTack Apr 2021 #12
They can run any machine that has to do with, "work" Bayard Apr 2021 #4
Here in Ohio they do all the above. They do a lot of doc03 Apr 2021 #15
yeah Sarasota has a good-sized Amish area OriginalGeek Apr 2021 #16
I see the Amish on Siesta Key for spring break doc03 Apr 2021 #18
An Amish lady here if Michigan that I do antique business with multigraincracker Apr 2021 #19
yeah I had a layover in Philly once OriginalGeek Apr 2021 #21
there are several amish booths at the reading market. mopinko Apr 2021 #23
Are they buying or selling the ganja? central scrutinizer Apr 2021 #6
Don't know about that, but the Mennonites in Mexico, Gruenemann Apr 2021 #11
Please leave them alone. Sneederbunk Apr 2021 #7
Barn building ability is legendary packman Apr 2021 #8
Are they buying it or selling it? blueinredohio Apr 2021 #10
Amish around here jumped right on the hemp and CBD bandwagon. Midnight Writer Apr 2021 #14
A lot depends on what their local bishop approves. wnylib Apr 2021 #17
Back in my working days our corporate computer head was some order of Amish. rurallib Apr 2021 #22
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