This morning the lake looks as if it has been kissed randomly all over its surface.
And those heated kisses (like some I have known) have been explosive, creating spider webs all over the smooth surface.
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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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November
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- My road has become a snow alley
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Palestinian Dress
- Bringing Home Your Travels
- Kisses on the Lake
- The Blob
- Happiness is Unbloggable
- I love living on a lake ...
- Geriatric Meanderings
- Carlos' Unfinished Floppy Slipper
- Carlos' First Slipper
- Yip, yip, yippee ay oh!
- Forgotten Woes and Warm Legs
- A Very Short Post
- Felting with Dogs
- Cute toucan, eh?
- A little of this ...
- Prototype Number 1
- Finally ...
- Swirling Snow and Grey Skies
- Afghan carpet
- Beads on felted sweaters
- Blue Mood, an oasis of Kenyan serenity at the bazaar
- Third World Bazaar
- The Ottawa Guild Pottery Show
- Yippee!
- I love mail ...
- a closer look
- one of my own
- The Brain and the Tango
- A Jumble of News
- My Cathy Payne Casserole Dish
- Life is Good
- Happy Birthday, Deb
- Waking Up to a More Hopeful World
- Brains, Moo Moo Cows and Free Thinkers
- Home Body
- Tidying Up and Looking Ahead
- 39 steps to be shoveled
- Journaling by candle light
- After the storm, the calm
- From the parking area looking down at the lake
- Kenya and the Toyota
- Life around the wood stove
- Powerless at Pike Lake
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November
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
4 comments:
I am longing for that flair and excitement your posts exude these days. Can you bottle it and sell it? I'd sell both my legs to get rid of this flatness I'm struggling with right now...
Re finding excitement...remembering that as Einstein said, "Either everything is a miracle or nothing is."
Simply attend.
Or, wait till the sun shines again.
It IS dreary out.
:-)
Thanks, Erin. You will emerge from this grey cocoon that has sucked you in. Come for tea soon.
Barbara: Yes ... it does help to look for the kisses.
Today when I almost didn't make it up the hill through the sludge, and then pranced around town quite unsuitably dressed in a long skirt that dragged in the puddles of every parking lot and a fleece poncho that had to be held closed against the blasts of wind, all the while carrying multiple bags of groceries, I was finding it much harder to see miracles than it is when I am safely ensconced in my cozy house looking out at winter's beauty.
Who said, "Experience is what we get when we don't get want we want?"
A skirt? You must be mad.
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