Sarah Jane Humke

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

Fall is a busy time around here.  The farmers are in the fields hurrying to get the corn and soybeans harvested before winter comes.  The combines and tractors run 24/7 in years that there is a lot of rain or bad weather.  Everybody is trying to get their homes and yards ready for the onslaught …

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There hasn’t been a lot of knitting content of late as there hasn’t been a whole lot of knitting done.  Mostly it’s been about getting food into jars.  Lots and lots of food.  The past weeks have been the apples.  At one point the porch was loaded with apples and the honey still in the …

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I’ve not written here for a while. Parts of this had to do with grad school. Being expected to write nearly constantly caused me to avoid it when I could. It wasn’t just this blog that has felt the inattention, but also friends who I would somewhat regularly write too via either snail or email. …

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