As always, these are real pictures of real amish folk taken with my real iPhone.

Today’s pictures were all taken at a local community fun day.

Here we go…

It’s a little known drawback to growing up with a TV.

You never see anyone hula hooping.

For all these girls know, this plastic ring is the biggest necklace ever.

Or the shortest tunnel ever.

3 things you didn’t know about the Amish:

1. They make amazing whoopie pies.

2. They make amazing donuts.

3. They have an official sponsorship deal with Mountain Dew.

Erica frantically searches her wallet for Amish money to pay for Parker’s donut.

Pop Quiz Hotshot:

This young Amish boy is quizzically looking on as everyone else…

a) does the hokey pokey

b) does the Soulja Boy

c) tries to remain culturally relevant

I was planning on making a crack about the amish kids having fun in the blowup castle,

but clearly we need to talk about the two non-Amish fire volunteers.

Dude in the foreground needs to find a better way to sit while he winds his backup watch.

Dude in the background might be a tad too old to be running excitedly into one of those.

(see that, I’m an equal opportunity fun poker.

I’ll poke fun at everyone, regardless of their stance on technology.)

Though her Amish background frowned upon cheating,

the young girl knew there was no way she was getting under that limbo pole the right way.

Her parents weren’t looking, so it was now or never.

You go girl!

You’ll be excommunicated from the Amish church,

but it was SO worth it.

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To see more posts like this, visit the Living With The Amish Index Page.

Before we get to the Amish, I wanted to mention that I’ve got the honor of being a guest-poster over at Jon Acuff’s Stuff Christians Like blog today. It’s about playing fantasy football for money, and I’ll put a link at the end of this post so you can go over and check it out.

(and if you’re an SCL reader who’s new here, you can check out some of the most popular posts in the sidebar once you’re done with this post and subscribe to the feed. thanks for checking things out!)

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As always, these are real pictures of real amish folk taken with my real iPhone on real roads while driving a real car.

Except for the first two pictures, which are real, but were graciously submitted by a reader, Kevin.

Here we go…

Like two weight watchers members meeting in front of a Krispy Kreme,

these Amish boys just happened to stop and talk in front of the iPod Touch display.

Avoid the appearance of evil, boys.

No matter how hard I stare at the words on this notebook

they refuse to transfer themselves to the monitor thing over there.

Someday I’ll make my first sale and have enough money to decorate.

Classic bait and switch here.

Oh, is your giant horse thirsty from pulling all that weight?

Well, let’s get him some cool water to drink…

…and while he’s recovering, perhaps you should think about downsizing from that gas-guzzling stallion.

“How about this, Amos?

We’ll get the roof on and you can be in charge of standing this 2×4 on its end.”

We interrupt this post about Amish people with big news…

BIMBO is now available at your local convenience store!

Now back to the Amish…

2 out of every 3 Amish children is afraid of non-Amish runners with big noses.

Judging by his bags, this guy and his 3-pronged beard just saved some serious cash.

But time is money…

…and the 3-hour walk home will put him back in the red.

And you thought the bloods and the crips was just a West Coast thing.

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To see more posts like this, visit the Living With The Amish Index Page.

P.S. - here’s the link for my post at SCL: Playing Fantasy Football for Money.

Last Tuesday I left work a few minutes early and drove to the Leacock Township Administration Building in Gordonville, PA to vote. As a faithful reader of Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com blog, I was fairly confident that my vote was nothing more than a matter of principle. Silver had predicted the day before that Obama would win by a 349-189 margin (as it turned out, the final electoral count was 365-162).

Barack Obama was going to win this thing handily whether I voted for McPalin, Obiden, or Will Ferrell.

Upon arriving at the poll, I was happy to see only a handful of people ahead of me in line. Then I noticed one person in particular, an Amish man, standing there with a boy who was probably his son. This struck me as odd because I assumed that Amish folks didn’t vote. I knew most of them didn’t pay Social Security (or receive its benefits), so I figured they didn’t vote either.

(As it turns out, some of them do vote. According to Erik Wesner’s Amish America blog, voter turnout among the Amish is typically around 10%. It’s a pretty low number, but it’s 10% higher than I thought it was.)

As I approached the registration table, I overheard the poll worker asking the Amish man if he wanted to vote electronically or by paper. I laughed to myself, wondering if the Amish guy was offended by the question. “You keep your cursed voltage away from me! Charged Electrons are the juice of the devil!” I leaned in further to hear his actual response, but unfortunately I could not.

After signing in, I asked to be placed in the electronic voting line and I was given a printed ticket with an access code for the voting machine. The man who handed it to me told me I was next in line, and that I could use the machine as soon as the man currently voting was finished. I looked up and guess who was using the touchscreen in the electronic voting booth?

Well what do you know? I guess watts and amps aren’t the tools of the devil after all!