Sarah Jane Humke

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

Autumn in Iowa is… quirky.  It can go from the 80’s to below freezing in a day and does so often enough that it’s not commented on as “strange weather”.  There isn’t as much fall color here as there is in other places I’ve visited.  It is definitely not Rhinebeck, but few places are!  However, …

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I’ve not given a lot of space here to my knitting and crocheting projects of late as other aspects of my life have taken-up a great deal of my time.  That doesn’t mean, however, that I’ve not been working on anything.  On the contrary, I worked on an afghan right up until the movers packed …

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This morning I took my mom to the airport for the start of her Nordic journey.  I hadn’t been to the Waterloo, IA airport in many years and was surprised at just how nice it was for a very little airport.  At the Delta counter (they seem to be the only airline that was serving …

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For all of the new members of the Task Force, we’ve made a cheat sheet for surveillance purposes.  This is, for all intents and purposes, a cast of characters seen entering and leaving The Old Chapel.  Some of them have only been seen through windows from the outside.  Many of these photos came from an …

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So, the application is done and dusted and sent off to Imperial College to pore-over and now I get to work on a few things.  I didn’t really feel right blogging too much when I had this application looming over my head, like a great e-sword of Damocles.  However, it is done and there is …

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So, I am still working on an application to grad school.  I’m not stressing about getting in but this application is also the application for scholarships from the university, which I am a bit stressy about.  It’s not the application itself that is all that difficult, rather the essay that is required for which there …

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Yeah, that about sums up my urge to blog the past few weeks.  And I’ve stuff to blog about to be sure.  I went to Fibre Flurry in Birmingham and had a great time despite the M1’s attempt at making me miss it entirely.  I went to Loop in London, finally.  I had dinner with …

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So, two things happened today to make it a good day.  First thing was that I finally started my new job.  Thankfully it didn’t rain too much as I am outside all the time, except for lunch.  It was great and everyone was super friendly and understanding about the whole flat tires thing yesterday.  I …

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