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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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2009
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December
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- New Year's Eve 2009
- Am I the Only One ?
- My Massage
- A Pair of Days
- Help! I am being held hostage by ...
- MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
- Flower Pot Tree
- My Stocking ... not where it hangs
- The Toe of the Stocking
- Exhausted
- Feeding Birds
- Count Down 2009 Festive Season
- Winter Solstice: Brighter Days Ahead
- Meanderings of a Murky Mind in a Mad Mad World
- BRRRR!
- A Post in Three Parts
- Storm in Progress
- Before the Storm
- Le Hibou Zentangle Carousel
- Is anyone else surprised by things like this?
- Speeding Up Time ...
- The Perfect Storm
- Random Thoughts While Home with the Flu
- The Weekend is Over
- The Weekend is Upon Us ...
- Another Day of Rest ...
- New Header
- First Snow: the Hermitage
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December
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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
5 comments:
Love the oooowl... clever!
Obviously an owl in the moonlight.
Lovely photos of winter: It snowed all day in Ottawa yesterday but John was out in it all day painting. I imagined him sitting there gradually filling up with snow himself, like the Frost poem.
He wears many layers of fleece + longjohns with a bright lime green snowboarder's jacket & pants overtop to ward off the wet/wind. On his feet are Sorel Arctic boots good to -70C. He is in heaven.
I love the picture of John in lime green ... you will be able to find him easily if he becomes too enthralled! How does he keep his hands both warm enough and agile enough to paint?
I have been reading mouthfuls of the Lint Chronicles ... I think I understand now why you were able to read the Nanowrimo draft ... you are just as crazy as I am! :-)
Crazily happy, I'd say...
Re Lime Suit: John's little red squirrel friends were very wary of him the first time he wore it -- because the Fall leaves were the same colour as his suit. His boots, then, were camouflage patterned. So the only thing showing were his face and hands -- moving -- suspended in space.
They eventually got used to it -- he did give them nuts in their shells, all ready for storage. You can't fill up a squirrel. The two (fighting) reds must have stored 50 kilos by now.
The first time he introduced peanuts-in-shells, they went nuts!
Ha!
Answer: He wears several thin gloves (some with fingertips cut back. He swears he doesn't feel the cold when he is actually painting.
This is Mandara, I LOVE THE OWL!!!
It is the most intriguing with its zentangleesque designs on the body!
Well done! Very well done!!! I made it my computer background.
Hope to see you around christmas!
xoxo
Mandara, thank you!
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