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Deep Winter Angst Quiche Recipe

 This is a recipe for when your chickens’ eggs all freeze before you get to them. Just rinse them off and stick them in the freezer. Once you have ten or so, make this recipe. If you live in a warmer region, you aren’t allowed to make this. Joking! You can make this by just… Read more »

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This Friday evening, Make it So

Come one, come all to the Jangle Soapworks Open House at the Old School House in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, this Friday, December 7, from 4-8. With every purchase of my books or wool objects or paintings, you will get a free bumper sticker of my head (while supplies last). Ten other vendors will be selling… Read more »

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An Upper Midwestern Spring

We have so much to do around here in Spring. There are lambs being born, meat chickens to take care of, plants to start indoors and transplant, mowing, weeding, planting, end of school stuff, planning for summer stuff, 4-h events, registering for the fair, getting all of our ducks in a row for summer camps… Read more »

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Poem for the Man at the Sun Cafe

Yep, that dude recited a poem to us for like twenty hours (or maybe three minutes) while all we really wanted was to eat root beer float, but it was across the room… so close, Yet so out of reach. He was a stranger to us. A strange stranger. Determined to recite poetry To unwitting… Read more »

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The Knitting Troll

I’m working on the next coloring book- trolls! They are all based the real troll sculptures in Mount Horeb. Feel free to print this one and color it, or share it with friends.  Side note: Professor Batty came to visit a few months ago, and we went to the Cat and Crow together (the yarn… Read more »

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UFO Days in Belleville, Wisconsin

Today, we took a road trip to Belleville, Wisconsin for their 30th Annual UFO Days Parade. The parade commemorates the day in 1987 when a UFO was spotted by local police in Belleville, Wisconsin. (More about the original event here.) (Also click on that link if you want to feel nostalgic about web sites circa 1998.)… Read more »