Sarah Jane Humke

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

I’m sitting here typing waiting for the obscenely quiet washing machine to finish washing the load of laundry I just put in.  If you are in a hurry and were just wondering if I am still alive I will give you the brief synopsis of what has gone down.  We all made it fine as …

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I’ve not really had a lot of time to dwell on all of my endings here in Florida.  But last night something occurred that drove the point home pretty harshly.  One of my geese was taken by, well, something large.  I am guessing a bear though I have never had that happen before.  However, whatever …

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Yesterday was the “big” vet appointment.  It was where the International health certificate, the EU health certificate and the Virgin Atlantic health certificate were all filled out by the vet.  It took several hours in total and was really important because if there are any major mistakes in this pile of papers our pets could …

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You know how it seems that you are destined to learn things over and over again only to forget them?  I am so that way with getting drunk and staying up much too late and then climbing aboard a Boeing 747 for an international flight.  One of these days I’m going to cause an “international …

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When I said the other day that all of London is in mourning, there is one group that I forgot about.  The area that my husband lives in is traditionally an immigrant starting point, sort of like parts of New York city.  It is where the newest wave of immigrants lives for a generation or …

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So, one of the many things that are going to be difficult to get used to in this country is the customer service in the stores.  I’m hoping that it will be a bit different out in the country but I’m not terribly hopeful.  I did end-up going to a yarn store in London.  I’m …

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So, in case you haven’t guess where exactly I am already, this might give you a BIG hint. Yep, I’m in lovely London again.  This time, it is a last minute run in order to find a house.  The hubby got sent to Sweden rather unexpectedly thus taking up his “week to find a house” …

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Tuesday night at Yarn Therapy I got a late birthday/early moving/random happy day gift from Terri Pike the fearless leader of our group. It is a felted rock. The cat embroidered onto it symbolizes “a nice lady lives here” in hobo signs.  (For more hobo signs, just google “hobo signs”.  I told Terri that the …

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