Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

Little Miss Red (as I am calling my young nursing charge) has taken to getting out of her pen and running to me when I am on my way to her.  In fact, she is following me all the way back to the house when I leave!  To say that it is terribly cute to …

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Last night I drove to the Hampton Middle School to the democrats caucus.  I’m pretty sure that if there had actually been a choice of candidates there would have been more people from my district than just 4.  But, despite this, it was fun.  There were goodies to eat and everyone was really nice.  We …

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I’ve not just been feeding baby goats and learning about Iowan politics lately.  I’ve also been spinning!  You might remember me posting about the Easyknits dyed Merino that I was spinning into (really) fine singles.  Well, I filled three bobbins with that wool and plied them together to make a really lush, soft and just …

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Living in Iowa, like most places, has it’s good points and it’s bad points.  I’m not completely sure which column to put the Iowa Caucuses under.  On the plus side, we do get to see a lot of the presidential candidates.  Then again, that can also be a bad point, depending on how many polling …

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First off, get y’all’s minds out of the gutter!!! Stop sniggering.  I mean it.  Or I’m going to turn this blog post right around! There.  Better. So, in answer to your semi-snorted question, speckendicken is a meat pancake.  Or, to me slightly more precise, it is a (usually) whole wheat pancake that has meat added …

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