The Modern Amish

Sometimes in life, you simply stumble into greatness.  You’re not looking for it.  You’re on no mission.  You’re simply strolling along life’s highway, trying to stay between the ditches when BOOM!!!  You get gobsmacked in the chops by something which changes you forever.  Something that alters the very fabric of your being & leaves an [...]

Our tip today is for all you organic farmers looking for a environmentally friendly way to get rid of slugs & comes courtesy of selfsufficientish.com.

To make a simple slug trap get a small pop bottle, cut off the funnel shaped neck and turn it upside down and place it back into the bottle. The picture [...]

worlds first beard toupee.  And it would be horrible.
his catchphrase would be ‘Thou art fired.’
stretch buggies.
he would have turned the other cheek to Rosie’s insults.
no need for comb-over.  Black hats look good with everything.
Trump Taj Mahal would be referring to a barn.
the scandal created by him trying to corner the Lancaster County real estate market [...]

Since it is entirely possible that someone will actually stumble upon this blog looking for something legitimately Amish.  I thought it would be a good idea to include something that might be useful to said someone.  So each Friday, I’ll be posting a helpful farming tip for my dear readers.  Use it to your health.
Today’s [...]

So Lynne Spears’s parenting book has been put on hold.  Wow!  What a surprise!  Almost as surprising as thinking anyone greenlighted this idea.  And based on the way many teenage girls are dressing & acting right now, I suspect whatever she’s doing is already in play with a lot of parents.  As far as bad ideas [...]

Once I had the name of the blog explode into being, I immediately began to think of some fun things I could do to play on the name.  And so today I give you the first installment of what I hope is a long running feature, ‘If they were Amish.’  Where we do a full [...]

Just to be clear, I am NOT Amish.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  No, the name you see at the top of this page is an exclamation made by a good friend of mine referring to my family’s lifestyle.  You see, we don’t have TV.  We have televisions so we can watch DVDs [...]