Cap, that wall hanging is gorgeous. Did you make it?
As for the horse coming over to visit. When we moved into the neighborhood somebody told us that the Amish were good neighbors, just don't let your sheep or goat escape onto their property because you would be lucky to get it back. We don't have either and neighbors on either side of us are non-Amish so we are pretty safe.
I prefer the term non-Amish although they call us English. The first time they did that, DH looked them straight in the eye and said "I'm Scottish! Do not call me English." I just shrugged and said "I'm Pennsylvania Duetch, Irish and Cherokee so I'm not English either!" the young man kind of blushed and said, that was just what they called everyone who wasn't Amish. DH informed him that we didn't like it, we preferred to be called American and suddenly something dawned on the young man and he looked at me and said You're Pennsylvania Duetch? Well then you can understand us when we don't talk English. I just smiled and said I could pick out words, which I could. My dad was fluent and spoke it around us when he got upset at us. But I noticed that since then they are careful for the most part to talk English around us and they don't refer to us as English any longer.
just saying
