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Look what Tammy produced from my photo!
..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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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
7 comments:
LOL!!!
I'm glad you like it...it is a great photo of you beautiful spot!
It is fabulous!
Looks like sprinkled powered sugar.
And I don't have to scroll down to see if I've already read your post.
It that your house?
The board and batton sure is an improvement over that plastic wrap that you had to live with for a while!
And I absolutely love the smell of your house as you walk up to it now...the fresh wood smells scrumptious!
I obsessively want to straighten the lake! I can't wait to smell the house!
Wow! That is phenomenal!
Oh, I can't wait to come over and see the board and batten in real life!
Absolutely beautiful, Oma!
If you straightened the lake, the trees would be crooked!
I love it too ... crooked lake, straight trees, warm scented cedar, and most of all, the fact that the construction is first rate and almost finished. I will miss knowing that Peter is puttering around outside (isn't that an odd comment for a hermit to make?) but I will be glad to have my walkway, front hall and porch clear of tools and sawdust. And I will be glad when the weekly hemorrhage of cash ceases.
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