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bright rays splashing across the wooden floor. It would have to have electricity and indoor plumbing.
Sounds like a nice place to be, Susan. I think I could do this for a month about once a year. Kind of like “recharging the batteries”.
I’m not sure the world can carry on without your supervision.
I think I got enough isolation during the first month of the quarantine. It’s great for a few weeks but get’s boring fast. I need the discipline of schedules. Not everyone is like that.
I could probably manage it for a few decades, so long as I had a good Internet connection.
I could manage it for several hours. Counting sleep time.
Hermits don’t have cell phones. Or color-coordinated pillows. Just a quill pen, some ink, and parchment for missives to be sent to Ricochet surrogates for posting apocalyptic visions and screeds with the occasional recipe idea or tips for fun uses for old flour sacks and squirrel hides.
Oh, aren’t you sweet! I think . . .
Say, @oldbathos, that sounds interesting. I think . . .
Often when I am asked where my wife and I will spend our vacation, I say we are going to a log cabin in the mountains. If they ask for details, I explain that we live in a log home (“cabin”) near West Virginia. As they say, West Virginia is “Almost Heaven” and we are Almost West Virginia, so therefore…..
Our place meets most of your requirements, but we do have a couple of extra rooms. The phones work – sorta – and the internet is kind of there. The critters are plentiful. The last two mornings, my walk has been watching the sun rise through the mist over the neighbors field while listening to the hawks in the woods across the street from our house.
One thing I would add to your requirements is to have enough of a porch to have a rocking chair. Sometimes that is the best place to watch critters. When we moved in, we only brought 2 rocking chairs the first night. We slept on the floor, but happily rocked on the porch the next morning.
…. where I’m about to go now
Oh – and get a dog. Are hermits allowed to have dogs? If not, I don’t want the job.
I love when you describe your home, @willowspring. But I want your dogs! Yes, a porch would be wonderful, too. Thanks for the suggestions!
Sounds more like a vacation than a lifestyle. But its all good.
I would love to have a little writing (or gaming) cabin just like in the picture. It has to have all the amenities mentioned, and it can even be located behind our house. I’m not a hermit, but I get hermit-like when writing, editing, or gaming. Any interruption – no matter how small – bothers the heck out of me, and it takes time to calm back down and return to what I was doing. Imagine fighting a dragon, your health bar is dropping faster than your healing potions can help you, and the stupid cats downstairs decide to hiss and spit at one another . . . arrrggghh!!!
Yeah, what next, “I’m gonna call up my friends and see we can be hermits together!”?
Nope. Please note that my little table has only one chair!
Double Post.
Who’s in the underground lab?
No worries. No basement.
“But it is lovely to think of escaping.” Yes! And that’s at the heart of it all, isn’t it? I love escaping. It’s why I travel. But I am only good for about two weeks at a time. But the minute I get home, I start planning my next escape. (I wonder why that is?)
Beautiful post. As always.
Me neither!!
I used the term “semi-hermit” jsut the other day describing the last 6 months.
Thanks, @imfine! I rarely imagine escaping, but it sure can be a delight! I’m pretty much the same way about travel. We haven’t been out much, but I’m looking forward to the time when we feel we can! And thanks for the kind words.
I’d want a lakeside cabin, and I’d want the lake to have decent tributaries that I could explore in a canoe.
Oooh, that sounds lovely. I think I might end up oaring in circles, though. But maybe I could learn to go straight! Thanks, Mis.
A hermit Meetup!
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Took me way too long to pipe up about this in this post, but the picture of the cabin on the OP was taken from a YouTube channel called “My Self Reliance”. Shawn James lives in the woods in Ontario in the cabin he’s built by himself. I’m not sure he qualifies as a hermit, but he spends weeks or months at a time with just his Golden Retriever, Cali. Highly recommended…there are many videos that have no dialog — just Shawn doing outdoor stuff. https://www.youtube.com/c/ShawnJamesMySelfReliance/featured
That sounds lovely, @hinch. Thanks!