SWISS - GERMAN AMISH FARM AND BUSINESS

This is a Swiss-German Amish Farm and business.  The third picture shows how good the new camera is. I was such a distance away, I couldn't figure out what was on top of the carriage - even with the zoom.  But when I got it home and the pictures on the computer, I can see it is a boat. Picture eight starts the pictures of the business next to the house.  I am not sure, but I think it is a lumber business.  There was another building, but a couple of Amish men were working out front and I was to close to take a picture - their faces would have shown up close and I don't want to offend them.

THIS AND THAT PICTURES

Sometimes I have a this and that.  I have pictures I want you to see, but they aren't enough of them to put on a post.  So here is one of my this and that days. The top two pictures of buildings I saw while driving around in Lyons area.  As I was driving on a back road the birds in the third were right in the middle of the road.  When I honked the horn, they moved over to the side of the road where I took the picture.  Next is a farm scene on the back roads of Lyons. Next is an unusual house, I saw on the same back road of the previous pictures.  The last picture I took of an Amish house in Galen.  They have the pumpkins for sale. I think I have a few more of this and that - that I will put on. Hope you enjoy my this and that.

JEAN'S BAKED HERB SALMON

JEAN'S BAKED HERB SALMON

1 2-pound fresh or frozen salmon fillet (Be sure all bones are removed from the salmon fillet before baking)
1 Tablespoon snipped fresh chives
1 Tablespoon snipped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 lemon, cut into 1/8-inch slices and seeded

Thaw salmon, if frozen.  Preheat over to 400 degrees.  Line a large baking sheet with foil.  Place, salmon, skin side down, on foil-lined baking sheet.  Sprinkle salmon with chives, thyme, pepper, and salt.  Top with lemon slices.  Cover salmon with foil.  Bake 20 minutes.  Uncover and bake 20 to 25 minutes more or until salmon flakes easily when tested with fork.  Serve immediately.  Makes 8 (3 ounces cooked fish) servings.

ANNA TELLS OF AMISH MEDICINE

I wanted to put on a post and explain why we use herbs.  Also, maybe the ways of our medicine.  To start with being both Amish and born again, we go by the ways of the Bible.  We believe that the Lord is love.  He created us, sent his son to this earth, he teaches us through the Bible and Jesus died on the cross for us.  So the Lord is love.  We also believe that the Lord heals.  When I give some medicine or they go to the doctor or hospital and are healed that the Lord healed them.  Now the Lord may have given me the wisdom to use a certain medicine or given the doctor the wisdom or the hospital doctors and nurses the wisdom, but the healing is the Lord's.  Even when someone passes on (dies) we feel that is the Lord's healing.  When someone passes, we feel that the Lord has taken them home where they are healed.

Another point, is that we believe our healthy bodies are a gift from God.  We should try to keep our bodies healthy and in as good condition as we can.  There are many things we consider beside medicine.  If a special child is born whether with physical or mental problems, we should also keep their bodies as healthy as we can.  Also, if an adult or young person should have an accident where they have physical or mental injury, they should still be kept in condition as well as they can be. Special adults or children should be treated as normal as they can be.  I could go into another post on that.

Of course, we use herbs for medicine, which I will tell you about.  But, we have other things we also consider for better health.  I want to tell you a little about them.

Light is very important to us.  Genesis 1:3 "And God said: Let there be light and there was light."  We must have light for our crops, animals must have light and we must have light.  We eat the crops and animals that need light.  Also, we ourselves need light.  Now I don't mean going out in the sun and getting sun burned or skin cancer.  But when we plow or harvest our crops - we get light outside.  When we work in my garden - we get light.  When we shovel snow, we get light.  Our bodies need light.  Many people have depression times during the winter when they don't get outside as they should.  We believe this depression is do to lack of outside light.

Muscles, bones and circulation are also important to us.  If there is  a problem with one of these, the whole body suffers.  We must maintain these and exercise.  We do not have any exercise equipment in our home.  Nor do we jog or run, unless it is an emergency.  Cleaning house is exercise.  Milking cows is exercise.  Plowing and harvesting our crops is exercise.  Taking walks together is exercise.  Eating the correct foods are important in maintaining these.

Breathing we must maintain.  James 4:14 "It is even a vapour, that appeareth for alittle time, and then vanisheth  away."  We can maintain for a few days without food, and we can maintain for a few days without water.  But we can not maintain without breathing.  With the pollutions in the air, we must maintain our breathing.  That is why we clean our homes from attic, house, to basement.  We make sure there is ventilation.  Also we obtain from smoking.

Diet is important to us. Despite what all the Amish cookbooks say, we do not fry chicken all the time.  I saw an article that says the Amish do not eat correctly.  I would like to meet the person that wrote that to speak with them.  We eat vegetables and fruit that we grow ourself - without chemicals on our food or in it.  We raise many of our own animals to eat.  We can our foods so we can have them year around.  We must watch our sweets so we don't over do it.  As we are not as active in the winter as we are the other months, we must watch how much we eat and what we eat. There are also times when we fast and when the body needs cleansing.

Water is in the Bible several times.  Two thirds of the weight of an adult is water.  The proper consumption of water is important.  Water is for drinking, bathing, cleansing, elimination from the body and more.  Living next to water can be a calming effect.  We don't live near water, but we do enjoy it when we go there.

Love we believe God is love and God does the healing.

Alms - Matthew 6:1 " Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven" We have a heavy bag at the door when we go to Sunday service.  We can put our money in the bag.  No one keeps account of who puts what in.  It is up to us to put in what we feel is right.  It is nice to know that we are donating to help others as the Lord wants us to.

Laughter is important to health.  In laughing you exercise your lungs, heart and glands.  Humor also gives you more pleasure, relieves tension and fear.

Dressing plain and with modest.  1 Peter 3:3-4 "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."  We feel that our plainness allows beauty to develop inside of us that would not happen if we wore jewelry, makeup, fancy clothes, etc.

Simple Ways - Ps 19:7 "The law of the Lord is perfect,  converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple."  Here we believe in avoiding the outside ways of the world.  We believe we must praise God, study the true meaning of our lives, develop our talents, help others in need, and just rejoice in our lives and being.

Touching is important.  We believe touching people also has a healing.  We believe massage can heal relieve tension, headaches and more.  That would be another whole post.

Work also helps in healing and teaching.  We must produce the fruits of labor and teach our young ones to do the same.

Praise and thanksgiving to the Lord is important in healing.  We should pray, praise and thank the Lord daily.  Also, we should stop gossip, and complaining and appreciate what the Lord has given us.

So in our healing we consider more than just herbs, flowers, and more.  We try to consider the source of the problem both physical and mental.  When someone comes, I talk with them and pray with them to see if we can find the source.  Of course sometimes taking care comes first, talking later in such as an accident or alike.

I thank Marilyn for per patience in this post.  We have been putting this together for almost a month.  At times I thought we would finish this, we had to put other posts on.  I will do another post on the herbs and medicines.

Trust God's Wisdom,
Anna

ELMER TELLS ABOUT STORING MEAT AT JEAN AND DAVID'S

I was driving down the road and saw this sign.  Just had to take a picture of it.  Showed it to Elmer.  He laughed and said to put it on.  Marilyn

Marilyn found this.  Never knew there was an Elmer road. I did think it was funny when she showed it to me, so I  told her to put it on.   Now I told her to go find a Jean Road, Anna Road, Martha Road and more.  Elmer

Thought I would tell you about storing meat at Jean's and David's.  First of all the slaughter area and all the food drawers are silver tone.  In fact both rooms are sliver tone.  When we need meat, we give them a call to make sure they are home.  Once you arrive you go into the office that is in one of their barns.  You meet who is taking you to your drawer - either Jean, David, Michael or Edward.  Thomas is usually with them as he is in training.

Both Anna and I and Jean and David have a list of what is in our freezer drawers.  We tell them what we are taking.  We cross it off our list and they cross it off their list.  If we are adding food to drawer - maybe something that we slaughtered, we add it to our list and they theirs.  With the owner before, we had problems.  Sometimes we would come to pick something up from our freezer drawers and it wasn't there.  The former owner said we had already taken it.  Neither of us had lists.  So when Jean and David took over, they put the lists in.

After we finish the lists, we go into the next room where we must put plastic over our shoes and plastic gloves over our hands.  From there we go into another room where our freezer drawers are.  We open the case and take out or put in what we want.  When we leave the freezer room, we take off the plastic over the shoes and gloves which we toss in a garbage can they have there.  The freezer room and the slaughter room must be kept sanitary at all times.  They have to meet state law.  Inspectors come a couple of times of year - unannounced to inspect.

Both Jean and David and Anna and I have keys to the drawers.  In case we forget the key, they can open the drawers.  If we don't have our lists, they give us a paper with what we took out or put in on it.

They have also put in a couple of other things that our previous owner did not have.  It is our choice if we want to belong or not.  One of these is to help others.  There was a family near us that lost their home in a fire.  They found another place to live, but had no food.  Many  charities came up with canned goods, but no fresh meat.  David and Jean took from their meat in their home to give it to the people in need.  Some of us that freeze our meat there did not think it is fair for Jean and David to have to give all of their personal meat.  So those of us that wanted to signed a list saying that if a need of meat comes up, that we agreed that Jean and David could take some out of our drawers.  That way the loss does not all fall on Jean and David.  There have come up a couple of times where meat was needed and the system has worked out very well.  Jean and David call us before or after they take it, tell us where it went and what they took.  That way several people donate a piece or two instead of it falling on one family.

Then on the other hand, there is a list of those of us who would be willing to take extra meat that Jean and David might get.  Especially at hunting season, some people kill a deer and they want only the head with the horns - they don't want the meat.  So David gives the hunters what they want, cuts up the meat and divides it among us that signed the list.  David or Jean calls us and tells us what they did so we can add it to our list.

While they were gone to Penn Yan, I did the slaughtering and cutting of meat for them.  I am a little short for the counters and sink so I had to bring a stool along and slide it along the floor to stand on. Since then David purchased a silver tone metal stool and keeps it in the slaughter area so I don'have to bring one and keep the new one sanitary.

We do pay David and Jean a monthly charge for our meat drawers.  Also there is a charge if we want any meat slaughtered.  The price is fair and you figure they have to pay the electric bill, keep the place sanitary, the meat is under lock and key, and their time.  David also has generators hooked up in the drawers area in case the power goes off, they have back up so the meat doesn't defrost.

Also Jean and David say if you they are home, they will see that you get your meat.  Our former owner had certain hours.  Jean and David say, of course, not on the Lord's day unless it is an emergency.

We are glad Jean and David bought the farm they did.  They are more pleasant than the other owners were.  Also, they will go out of their way for you.  Many of the Amish and some Old Order Mennonites store our meats at Jean and David's.

I see last week I got a lot of questions so I will answer some of those next week. NO, I will not be on next week.  Next week is Jean's week.  I will be on the sixth of October, Lord willing.

Trust God's Wisdom,
Elmer

MACEDON CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, MACEDON CENTER, NY

I was unable to find a history on this church in town of Macedon Center or Macedon.  I do know that they do a lot of charity work.  I really like that they are going to have Blessings of the Animals.  Might bring Pierre to that.  Doggies can use all the Blessings they can get.

USUAL AMISH HOUSE HAS BUILDING GOING UP !!

I had this house on in January.  While driving in the area, I saw two Amish men working on this building.  Knowing their religious feelings about pictures, I didn't take their pictures.  When I came back later, they weren't there so I took pictures of the building they were working on.  The black you see on the building are their tool belts and jackets.  I wonder if that is going to be a greenhouse.

On Monday, Elmer has a different picture at the top of his post.  I found it while I was out taking pictures and showed it to him.  He laughed and gave me the okay to put it on.  So it goes on Monday.  I am sure Elmer will have comments about it.