Sarah Jane Humke

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

  This past weekend was our first annual 4th of July party.  Attending it were 2 Zimbabweans, a couple of Americans, a family of Indians an Italian and, oh yeah, a few Brits!  I don’t know about you but to me that was about as American of a party as we could have had.  It was …

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  When did I become a perfectionist?  I mean really, when?!  Last I remember I was changing colors in an afghan by (gasp!) knotting yarns together and the next thing you know I’m ripping out 90 or so rows of sock yarn which had been knit on size 2.5mm needles (for my crochet buddies, this …

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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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Today I got this package delivered to me.     It is from the British Wool Marketing Board.  I placed an order with them for both some posters and some wool for spinning.  Today, I got my posters, as well as a few other goodies.  I ordered the posters to help decorate my attic yarn …

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