I am glad you enjoyed this one, especially the line about jewels in need of polishing. I almost fell out of my chair when I wrote that line and accioslash commented after beta reading this how she could just see people using that as a reference to find the fic. :D
a hexenmeister is viewed either as a faith healer or a witch/wizard depending upon the congregation or part of Penn Dutch country you are in. hexen=craft/spell and meister=master.
makes no never mind is Germanic in origin. I can't remember what bit of plott Deutsch is butchered to get this translation, but it's something I've heard from most of my relatives when a change of menu or plans is not all that important.
He curtly nodded his head ‘yes’ and vowed to have a large salad tonight to help keep his arteries from slamming shut This is a necessity if you regularly eat the way the farm folk eat and don't do serious heavy labor or something. They are carb junkies and they burn those carbs off with all the hard work.