Some titles sound VERY old. Great Aunt, for instance. The only people who ever talk about great aunts are themselves middle aged or older so the words Great Aunt (usually pronounced with a distinctly upper class British accent) always conjure up for me a vision of crepiness, blued silver hair coiffed in unmovable tight curls under a hat with a veil ... in short a very old but very fashionable woman of some means.
My daughters, Mud Mama and Zoom, are so far from this image that it makes me laugh.
But yes, they will be great aunts by Christmas.
I will be an Ur-Oma ... and that also makes me giggle. I am far too young to be an Ur-Oma.
But strangely enough, Debbie is exactly the right age to be a grandmother and Lindsay is exactly the right age to be a momma.
I am delighted that my eldest grand daughter is going to be providing our family with a new baby for us all to love.
Isn't it lucky that I have learned to knit with such fine wool on such tiny needles just in time to make baby clothes?
Thank you, Lindsay, and congratulations. You will be a wonderful mother.
..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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- Oma in Creek in Flood ... see my boot?
- Flood Waters
- The spring side of the lake
- It's still winter on my side of the lake
- Wabi Sabi
- Sock it to me!
- Black Sheep and Hermits
- This Just In from Julius
- Update on the Funeral for Julius' Son
- Nature Girl and Wild Thing decorate my den
- Kenya Kisses
- The Sudden Emptiness of the Hermitage
- Sounding the Alarm
- Quick Post from a Busy Household
- Quick Updates
- Ancient Titles
- Dealing with Dial-up and Quebec Bureaucracy
- Homemade at Oma's Hermitage
- This is what 3 litres of yogurt looks like
- Kenya's Spiffy Scarf
- Not too lazy Sunday
- Look! A Seamlessly Grafted Toe!
- Almost Spring and the Writing Trudges on in Waterp...
- Is it me?
- Spay Neuter Swap Clinic
- A Real Job
- Sign Visible
- I do presume ... I am not a timid mole ...
- Moles, of course, do not presume to blog ...
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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
11 comments:
Mom I saw your post over at the Fraulein's - you've got to stop trying to tell people to date their gay friends! LOL Sometimes friendship is really all its about.
Did I miss something?
Who was gay?
The undate - her friend is gay :-)
Oh ... I didn't know. I guess I was skimming instead of reading.
BTW The only gay people I have suggested to anyone have been bi, and only to gay or bi people ... at least I think those were the only matchmaking attempts I made. As I recall it was a stressful period and I thought she needed to find someone good quickly so I came up with one straight and one bi person I thought a lot of.
I also suggested a bi/gay man for a bi/gay man I loved very much. One of the two above as I recall.
Anyway, nothing came of my matchmaking attempts and everyone appears to be perfectly happy.
I am obviously a hopeless matchmaker ... can't even manage it in my own life.
I think I would welcome the efforts of a well meaning matchmaker ... if s/he were better at it than I am:-)
Congrats Uhr-Oma!
And Mud Mama - glad to see that you are reading the blog (I never know who is), and that you caught that one :)
And I agree with the well meanging matchmaker, if I find one, I will let you know!
Fraulein,
You can settle a question for me. This morning I received a note congratulating me on becoming (in the near future) an uber oma ... I learned my German when I was 13 when my Oma came to Canada ... not quite at her knee since I was taller than she was ... but the same level of kitchen German. When I took German in university I never again needed to use the word Ur or Uhr or Uber Oma so I never learned how to spell it or whether uhr or uhr was a slurred form of uber.
What is the correct term?
And do let me know if you find a good matchmaker:~)
so my 10 years of Saturday mornings at German school finally are being put to use! too bad the last course I had was 15 years ago, and I was better at conversing than writing...
I've seen uhr oma, uroma, ur oma, and urgrossmutter... but i have never heard of uber oma, perhaps a dialect variation?
If uber is right then I think it's like uber mensch (sorry no umlaut) ... which makes me far more important than I have ever been.
In the meantime I think I will just stick to ur-oma and wonder which spelling is right.
LOL
Uber was meant in the context of the best...not the literal 'great grandmother' but as in you will be the ultimat...the best...the head...top of the heap!!! No actual application of German was really intended, I don't think!!!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cber
I see that Wikipedia refers to the term 'ubermench'
Hi Tamarak ... Glad you have stopped long enough to drop in. Miss you.
I got back into town yesterday!
I have missed spending leisurely time on my computer...but it was probably good for me to have a break from it!
Talk soon
Missed you too!!!
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