Sarah Jane Humke

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

Random has been sort of my catchword of late.  It feels as though my life has become a host of things unrelated to one another except through me.  I could make a concept map to explain this, but I’ll save y’all the horror:-) I’ve not posted here in a while.  Partially this is because, quite …

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I know that I haven’t been on here very much of late.  A lot of this is due to the aforementioned work + travel.  Some of it is because it is spring and that means GARDENING!!!!  I’ve not been able to have much of a garden for a few years now and I never really …

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I’m really loving these printed bags as well as these.  The second bag would be especially great for an emergency knitting/crocheting kit for the car:-) This article made me weep, in a good way. I’ve been watching Round the Twist with Carin as a knitting compliment.  I don’t know if the video aspect really helps …

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I was in South Carolina for a week for training for work.  While I was gone, Red got her first ride in a car and trip to the vet.  My mom and dad took her in a pet carrier which I really wish that I had pictures of.  But hey, you gotta do what you …

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Early yesterday the sun disappeared, the temperatures started to drop and the wind picked-up considerably.  About the time that it got dark, it also started snowing.  We didn’t get a lot of snow, but what fell has been blowing around all day.  It’s reasonably cold out (it was around 8 degrees Fahrenheit [-13 Celsius] when …

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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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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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