Sarah Jane Humke

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

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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“Normal” person’s answer: I got up, went to work.  The commute was hell.  Hated on my boss because he was acting like a dick.  Ate lunch at that new Mexican place on the corner.  It was terrible.  Everything smelled like fish except the fish which oddly smelled like chicken.  Went back to work for another …

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I took Malcolm and Micheal down to the creek today for their walk.  Meara and Weezy were originally excited by the idea but quickly changed their minds when they understood just how cold the wind was. The snow from yesterday has stuck around making the cold seem appropriate.  It also causes the landscape to appear …

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So I have started my spinning again.  I couldn’t for the first few weeks that I was here because the wheel was in transport.  Then once it got here I needed to find the rest of the bits of it as they were packed away in the bewilderingly labeled boxes.  By the time that I …

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So yeah, not a lot coming from this corner for a bit.  I’ve been, you know, busy y’all! So, where were we last?  Oh yeah!  I went to Florida to deal with house and storage unit and to catch up with my wonderful Florida peeps.  The damage to my house wasn’t nearly as bad as …

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I am currently in a Days Inn in Nashville, Tennessee sitting on my king sized bed listening to the weather report wanting to go to sleep.  I’ve driven a cargo van 12 hours today and I am completely exhausted.  However, somewhere deep inside of me I think that I was an OTR trucker in a …

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This afternoon I drove this beast around the field: While my dad loaded it with bales of cornstalks using the skid loader. It is really not a glamorous truck at all.  In fact, at some point in its recent history it has been used as a party pad for raccoons.  They seem to have taken …

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