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Home Is Where Your Hermit Is!

Posted on September 1, 2011 by hermistress

I’m half pre-occupied, with the smells of corn relish coming in from the kitchen. I’m trying something new and hoping that I can put up these jars of grilled corn on the first try. But I also want to go out in the back and work on our fledgling chicken tractor that soon, will house some cluckers and hopefully, one day, eggs. Which means pancakes. 

shut up and give me pancakes.

I just returned from a quick trip over to a friend’s house, around the corner and up the hill.  They’ve got the right idea.  A little homestead of sorts, tucked away in a sweet little neighborhood.  They’ve got their brick-red stucco house tucked away amid a forest of ash junipers, spiraling pathways, mulberry trees, winding gardens and chickens galore. 

Every time I go over there, I think wow, I wish my little place was like this.  I want chickens!  And cucumbers! 

Nothing could be better than chickens AND cucumbers.

Once a thriving city girl who biked everywhere, loved GWAR, the boutiques, dive bars and thrift stores of the underbelly of my chosen cities … somehow I’ve … changed over the years. 

woo hoo. wilder days.

The desire to be surrounded by people and sound and music and cars has been replaced by a different need. 

Now I’m up before dawn, running on the hill country roads in my area, with the yipping of coyotes just out of range, and occasionally, the dart of a golden pair of eyes, just past my path.  My fingernails get lined with the dirt from the gardens, a never-ending loop of watering, weeding, thinning and goading.  My seven trusty dogs are my closest companions from the first time I trip over them at 6 am until we’re tucking away late at night. 

Milan and I. Present Day.

I discovered recently, with a little bout of surprise, how happy I am out here, in my little neck of the woods, out in Hermit-Ville.  I don’t have many aspirations to be wildly popular, a social butterfly and present at every art opening. I do like to get out; I do love my vietnamese lettuce wraps with mint and good fish sauce, and I still love combing through the those flea markets and garage sales … but now I feel content. 

When I’ve got a wide open afternoon that includes some sort of food preparation, whether its from the nearby farmer’s market or a new recipe I want to create … the prospect of working on a piece from my ongoing kitchen goddess art installation or stretching out under the beautiful big oak trees in the yard … this for me, is happiness. 

It rained here once. Observe.

Home is where the hermit is and I’m perfectly pleased to be here with you.

 

 

 

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