Sarah Jane Humke

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

So, it’s been an interesting week here at the Chapel.  As all of you who have tuned in previously know our blue shaggin’ wagon bit the dust last Sunday on a run to the train station.  It’s transmission gave out and it would have cost much more to fix than it was worth.  It took …

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I realize that I haven’t been very good of late of showing or telling what I’ve been up to since I got back from the US.  So, I am going to have a monster blog entry to try to show you all the fun and exciting things that have been going on since my return. …

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It has finally turned grey here in the Southern end of England and sort of cold.  In fact, if I didn’t have a calender on the wall I would think that spring is now going backwards except for a few things.  One is that the peonies are getting ready to bloom.  I love peonies.  My grandmother …

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So, I have been a very bad blogger!  Are you gonna spank me now?  Huh?  Didn’t think so.  I know that I’ve been bad but I actually have a pretty decent reason for it.  I was in the US for the past week+ and I didn’t have a whole lot of internet connection nor time to connect. …

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Ok, so I am not going to say anything about blueballs, I just couldn’t stand not using it.  I accidentally typed in blueballs the first time I tried to type bluebells.  What can I say, that’s where my mind goes!  So, I’m sorry if you found this post hoping for a cure for blueballs or …

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This week I started a project journal.  I want to be able to look back and see what it was that I made and what kind of yarn it was and where this object ended-up.  Since nearly all of my projects are given away, this is a thing to track.  I have my “things I’ve …

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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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My husband is a saint.  No, it’s not that he only has the patience of one (which he does) but that he is, in fact, as saint.  The pope just doesn’t know it yet.  Screw the pope (he probably needs it!), the world doesn’t know it yet.  I am sure that some folks kinda figured, since …

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