My Amish Babysitter

We had a wonderful Amish babysitter when I lived in My Old House. Cathy Borkholder took care of my sister and I one day a week. My favorite memory of Cathy; when I would get a little too ornery, she would take me out on the front porch, hold me over one of the shrubs and announce, "I'm gonna throw you in the bushes!" I would laugh and laugh as she would lower me closer and closer to the awaiting shrub.

I of course don't have a picture of Cathy lowering me into the bushes, but here is a picture taken on that little porch. You can actually see the shrub better in the picture of the carnival though.

(Updated 1/15/09)
Me, Angie (Stillson) Pletcher, Tena (Sheets) Haney,
and my sister, Stephanie (Miller) Gall