Sarah Jane Humke

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

So I arrive just as the very first part of the harvest is beginning which is corn chopping.  Corn chopping, unlike corn harvesting, uses the entire plant except for the roots.  Rather than cutting the stalks down and removing the corn kernels from the plant, corn chopping cuts up the entire plant into small bits, …

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On Tuesday at around 2am GMT we awoke to get the proverbial “show on the road”.  The cats were all duly corralled and crated and the car was loaded with baggage and animals.  Driving to Heathrow at that hour of the day is quite easy which is probably a good thing as we had a …

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9am Waiting for the movers to show-up.  They had warned me that they would be earlier today, like 8am.  Am not mad, just a tad annoyed as I could’ve slept-in had I known that they were going to be this late. 9:05am Movers roll-in. 9:15am Meara and I roll-out to do some errands. 10:30am Meara …

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At 9am this morning my house was invaded by 5 strong men armed with packing tape and giant rolls of bubble wrap with cats on it.  The moving crew had arrived. They immediately set to work boxing and wrapping everything that they could get their hands on.  It’s actually quite remarkable.  The speed and efficiency …

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