for those ladies new to this blog, these folks are called Mennonites. They live as “pioneers”. No electricity, nothing with a motor, pumping water by hand, cutting the wheat by hand and then stuking the straw (the little bundles on the field) and then loading the straw onto the wagon with pitch forks. All with horse and wagon, as you see.
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looks great Val, a really beautiful picture! And interesting info to go with it.
Will your email program allow you to attach LARGER images?
Looks like a wonderful scene Val. But yes I would love to zoom in and see it bigger. Hope your email will let you go bigger most of them have alternative settings you can use. But well done anyway for successfully emailing the pic.
Thanks Val this does look like hard work but what a dream lifestyle - I sometimes wonder if progress has been such a good thing, but then without it we would not be communicating like this - it's great. Mennonites sounds biblical I will google it - great info !!! We used to cut our own hay, lifting the bales not easy, especially with streaming eyes and snuffling nose, but was a great feeling to see it all loaded into the barn at the end of the day. Our first cut was done just about now end Nov. early Dec.
I love this picture and all your Mennonite pictures, Val! Beautiful!
Hey Val hope you are OK - you have gone quite quiet! Would love to see more Mennonite pictures and anything else - snow even!
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