Table of Contents
Part 1 The Muffins Go Farming
Shocking 3
Sheepishness 7
No Snowballs on This Farm 14
Getting Naked 19
Freakishly Exotic People 23
Spinning in Circles 27
Sheep Sex and Other Natural Disasters 32
The Failed Environmentalist 38
Minnesota Cranky 43
The King and I 47
Brokeback Farm 49
Searching for Memoirs by Moonlight 55
Part 2 Telling Farm Tales
To Sproing and Worfl 63
The First Pasture Goddess 67
My Nursery 74
A Gaggle of Goddesses 78
A Cure for Writer's Block 84
Enough Happy Endings? 89
Does This Bale Make Me Look Fat? 94
Tending the Vineyard 98
The Perfect Nest 102
The Farmer's Wife 106
Just Ducky 110
The Incredible Shrinking Jeans 115
This Is Your Brain on Oxytocin 119
Part 3 Spinning Yarns
Woolology 101 127
Turquoise Treasure 133
Super Sheep 138
The Fuzzy Patriots 143
The Queen of Do-It-Yourself 148
Greener Than You Think 152
And Photogenic, to Boot 157
Of Warp and Woof 163
Counting Bed Mites 167
A Recipe for Carpal Tunnel 171
The Stealthy Flock 175
Re-cycle. Re-create. Re-enjoy. 179
We Are the Champions (of Sheep) 184
I'd Turn Back If I Were You 189
Part 4 Unravel
Something's Up 195
Adventures of the Backup Farmer 198
Holy Hanky Panky, Batman 202
Dividing Up the Cake 206
More Babies 210
Not Exactly a Goddess 214
Focus on Feet 217
My Head Is Full of Colors 221
An Intimate Secret 224
Part 5 The Love of You Sings
Real, Not Virtual 231
Wave of the Future 235
Listening to Sheep 240
Rhubarb Sauce and Candy Corn 244
Freaks 'R' Us 247
Sheepish and Proud 251
Acknowledgments 257
Sheepish Mitten and Hat Patterns 259