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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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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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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