Sarah Jane Humke

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

I don’t mind Christmas.  In fact, unlike some folks that I know, I usually like it.  I like decorating the tree and wrapping the presents and (shockingly) taking the boxed presents to the post office to mail (I have a GREAT post office and I’m not gonna share with you!).  This year has been stressful …

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So, the Friday night lift-off of the shuttle was easily the best one that I have seen in my decade here in Central Florida.  It was just a little bit cloudy, so the flames coming out of the back seemed sort of magnified.  It really looked like a small sun rising especially in the first …

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This is what I did last night after the Happy Hookers meet-up. I started spinning up some of the rovings that I bought at Rhinebeck. The name of this colorway is “Sage” and I only have half a pound of it.  It is (I believe) 100% merino wool.  I am not sure that I like spinning …

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So, while I was in the UK the last time I bought a bag of oatmeal colored Blue Faced Leicester roving.  I bought a half a kilo of it, thinking that was the closest that I could easily get to them selling me a pound of the stuff. Half a kilo is about 1.1 pounds. …

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