Just a short post today as I have places to go and things to see ...
Yesterday I received the good news from the biopsy and the scans ... no cancer ... I can't say I felt relieved or ecstatic, to be honest. I don't think I ever really thought there was a real possibility of it. Denial maybe. But no one in my family that I know of ever had had a cancer that was liable to be genetically caused. And more importantly, I didn't feel sick enough for it to be likely.
I didn't have enough cash to pay the $13.00 parking charge but the nice man at the machine changed the numbers and took my $10.
Then I ran some errands, bought some wool, stopped to say a belated Happy Birthday to Carlos, and came home to Kenya.
Today Tammy, Carlos and I are going to the first annual hand made bead exhibition, the Ottawa Guild Potters' Show, and the Third World Bazaar. Lots of beautiful colourful things to see ... no money to buy ... but a feast for the eyes anyway.
I will take my camera with me.
..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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- 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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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
2 comments:
So glad to hear your health is just fine.
Enjoyed reading about your tootling around.
We did a show yesterday at a The Small Press Book Fair at the Jack Purcell Community Centre on Elgin.
What a mix of other activities were going on there that day -- Christmas Carol practicing and a baby exercise class (not at the same time) to name only two.
Life is good.
Barbara ... yes life is very good, isn't it? I like the Jack Purcell Centre. I used to live 5 minutes away from it and did aerobics there. It is truly a community gathering place. I hope you had lots of success and fun there.
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