RE: Big House, Tiny Garden, March 2026

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ronthroop in HiveGarden • 6 days ago

Which state do you think? I’d take rural New York any day. I know where to hide and steal:)
Did you ever read The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel? The guy was a thief, however, he managed 29 years in the Maine woods without ever starting a fire.
I agree so much about salads in restaurants. Never-ever. I do buy from the store, at least until I get those neat hot lights you speak of. I just toss with light amounts of olive oil and vinegar, pinch of salt and pepper. And it’s the last thing I eat, after the “entree”.
This year I plan less studio art and much more garden. I have a manageable base already, but I want to turn the entire yard soil upside-down!

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owasco 5 days ago

I love where I live now, it's very friendly and I can be myself, unlike other places I have lived where I felt I had to conform to have friends, and I simply could not pull that off, try as I might.

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ronthroop 4 days ago

I feel the same.
I visited my friends in Texas last March. They recently moved to a new housing “community”. Several neighbors stopped by at different times during their move-in month to ask what church they went to. I mean, I cannot imagine that EVER happening in upstate New York.

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owasco 4 days ago

I dunno. It could happen in my town. Is it the assumption that one is a practicing Christian what surprised you? I am more rural than you are.

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owasco 5 days ago

I did read that book. I thought it quite tragic. They forced the man to behave according to the very narrow rules of today's culture. I was bereft for him, and for all of us, that such control of a human being is possible. He was not harming anyone, except those few who would not tolerate someone living outside of norms. I found it interesting that he chose to break into home, even those homes that had left him goodie bags outside.

I love that stone!

You can grow some lettuce inside without the lights, if you have a great big south facing window. I've done that, too.

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ronthroop 4 days ago

That’s the problem. No south facing window not already taken by the indoor gang:)

I kept having the feeling he was hiding something. Like a hit and run. No hermitage need be so frozen!

P.S. I’m putting up a post today, and am officially excluding you from participation, please:) Though by all means, click into the live stream for some entertainment!

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owasco 4 days ago

He was happy there, functioning for a great many years. Are not most of us frozen in place, hiding from deeds that might be against some law or regulation that we don't even know about? He was treated like a criminal, and I suppose he may have been. But it's no crime to have nothing to do with other humans, and he was forced to relate to humans on a regular basis after they got him. We are all one single law away from prison, one.

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