Anna's Healing Read Online Free
Author: Vannetta Chapman
Samuel and Erin are so sour?â
Instead of being offended, Rebecca laughed. âI donât know if âsourâ is the right word, but I understand why you would use it. Some of that answer lies in the past, and itâs not my place to share it.â
âMy dat and Samuel are bruders . I always thought Dat was a bit strict and even a little somber at times, but next to Onkel Samuel, Dat looks like a blushing schoolboy.â
âSpeaking of blushing boysâ¦â Rebecca nodded toward the door, where three of the boys from their district were stomping dirt off their boots before stepping inside.
Each boy had asked Anna to the singings, and she had turned down all three. The reason that sheâd given her aenti was they were too young, and it was true they were one to two years younger than she. But the real reason was she wasnât ready to settle down. She hadnât even lived yet. How could she be expected to begin datingâwhich would no doubt lead to marryingâone of the local boys? She didnât even know if she wanted to stay in Oklahoma.
So she said goodbye to Rebecca, tucked her package under her arm, and only offered a brief nod to Neal, Adam, and Thomas, who were indeed blushing.
Anna walked to her tractor without looking back, though she suspected they were watching her. Was she that odd of an occurrence? An out of town Amish girl? She couldnât get used to being a minorcelebrity among the boys. In Goshen, most of them didnât give her a second glance.
Or perhaps she was remembering that wrong. Sheâd had no more interest in dating back home than she did here. The difference was that when she was still on her parentsâ farm, sheâd thought a change of scenery would calm the restlessness in her heart.
It hadnât.
She climbed up into the tractor, but instead of putting in the key and fighting the clutch, she opened the paper across her lap and found the article she was looking for.
Plain Produce
By Chloe Roberts
Mayes County Chronicle
CODYâS CREEK â If itâs wholesome food and fair prices youâre looking for, you need look no farther than a few local Amish farms.
Corn, green beans, tomatoes, okra, bell peppers, radishes, and squashâplump, fresh, and picture-perfectâcan be had when you pull over to one of the small produce booths that dot the countryside. Amish farmers do not use insecticides or chemically produced fertilizer on their crops. What you buy will be organic in the truest sense of the word.
The Amish population in Mayes County has doubled over the last ten years, bringing with it a resurgence of small farms. Unlike conglomerates with vast acreage and the latest technology, farms owned by the Amish insist on using the old ways and only farming what each family needs to earn a living and feed their own. Though they remain faithful to the Amish faith, their day-to-day practices differ somewhat from larger Amish communities in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
You have probably seen the canopied tractors pulling the bed of a pickup truck. Amish in the area use tractors forfarming and for local travel. However, a horse and buggy can still be found on most homesteads. Their life here in Oklahoma is one of necessary compromises due to the difficulty of the areaâs claylike soil.
If youâve visited the area on Sunday, youâve no doubt had to slow down behind the iconic horse-drawn buggies and Plain-clothed families making their way to church or visiting neighbors. What you may not have realized is that this community east of Tulsa is now home to four Amish church districts and more than six hundred Amish people.
City manager Lex Carlson considers that a plus. âThey make good neighbors. Not too much crime among the Amish, and what many folks donât realize is that they pay the same local taxes as everyone else.â
Judy Scotts with the Codyâs Creek Chamber of Commerce also believes
Instead of being offended, Rebecca laughed. âI donât know if âsourâ is the right word, but I understand why you would use it. Some of that answer lies in the past, and itâs not my place to share it.â
âMy dat and Samuel are bruders . I always thought Dat was a bit strict and even a little somber at times, but next to Onkel Samuel, Dat looks like a blushing schoolboy.â
âSpeaking of blushing boysâ¦â Rebecca nodded toward the door, where three of the boys from their district were stomping dirt off their boots before stepping inside.
Each boy had asked Anna to the singings, and she had turned down all three. The reason that sheâd given her aenti was they were too young, and it was true they were one to two years younger than she. But the real reason was she wasnât ready to settle down. She hadnât even lived yet. How could she be expected to begin datingâwhich would no doubt lead to marryingâone of the local boys? She didnât even know if she wanted to stay in Oklahoma.
So she said goodbye to Rebecca, tucked her package under her arm, and only offered a brief nod to Neal, Adam, and Thomas, who were indeed blushing.
Anna walked to her tractor without looking back, though she suspected they were watching her. Was she that odd of an occurrence? An out of town Amish girl? She couldnât get used to being a minorcelebrity among the boys. In Goshen, most of them didnât give her a second glance.
Or perhaps she was remembering that wrong. Sheâd had no more interest in dating back home than she did here. The difference was that when she was still on her parentsâ farm, sheâd thought a change of scenery would calm the restlessness in her heart.
It hadnât.
She climbed up into the tractor, but instead of putting in the key and fighting the clutch, she opened the paper across her lap and found the article she was looking for.
Plain Produce
By Chloe Roberts
Mayes County Chronicle
CODYâS CREEK â If itâs wholesome food and fair prices youâre looking for, you need look no farther than a few local Amish farms.
Corn, green beans, tomatoes, okra, bell peppers, radishes, and squashâplump, fresh, and picture-perfectâcan be had when you pull over to one of the small produce booths that dot the countryside. Amish farmers do not use insecticides or chemically produced fertilizer on their crops. What you buy will be organic in the truest sense of the word.
The Amish population in Mayes County has doubled over the last ten years, bringing with it a resurgence of small farms. Unlike conglomerates with vast acreage and the latest technology, farms owned by the Amish insist on using the old ways and only farming what each family needs to earn a living and feed their own. Though they remain faithful to the Amish faith, their day-to-day practices differ somewhat from larger Amish communities in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
You have probably seen the canopied tractors pulling the bed of a pickup truck. Amish in the area use tractors forfarming and for local travel. However, a horse and buggy can still be found on most homesteads. Their life here in Oklahoma is one of necessary compromises due to the difficulty of the areaâs claylike soil.
If youâve visited the area on Sunday, youâve no doubt had to slow down behind the iconic horse-drawn buggies and Plain-clothed families making their way to church or visiting neighbors. What you may not have realized is that this community east of Tulsa is now home to four Amish church districts and more than six hundred Amish people.
City manager Lex Carlson considers that a plus. âThey make good neighbors. Not too much crime among the Amish, and what many folks donât realize is that they pay the same local taxes as everyone else.â
Judy Scotts with the Codyâs Creek Chamber of Commerce also believes
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