My first reaction when my son told me I was going to be a grandmother, and that the baby and his parents would live with me, was unbounded joy. My second reaction was to build a 10x10 wood hut in my backyard. It comes with a silver key that is mine alone.
The Toronto hut rush of 2022 turns out to be the outdoor gas heater rush of 2021, only pricier — and then you must find someone to build it. Luckily, my nephew Sam is an excellent carpenter. Luckily, my nephew Sam the excellent carpenter rents my basement apartment. The electrician arrived. “Everybody is doing these huts all of a sudden,” he said. “I’ve wired three in the past month.” As more of us a) settle into permanent work from home, at least part of the time, b) continue to take expensive travel off the agenda, and c) look for ways to extend our families,In the Backyard are all selling versions of huts, from basic to grand. Not everyone is using the huts to work: some are guest huts or play huts for kids.
In footsteps, this gleaming sprucewood structure — it took about two weeks to complete once the decisions were made — is 33 small steps from my back door. But in all other ways my daily journey to the end of the backyard can’t be measured in something as unremarkable as putting one foot in front of the other, while holding a mug of coffee, the silver key that unlocks the hut door, and a wool blanket, because it gets chilly out here in January.
I think about my grandchild-to-be — a recurring hut fantasy is of him running to the end of the path and knocking on the hut door; yes, he knocks, he is a polite child — and the risk of new love. And whether I can protect him from the dangerous world, and how this hut is going to be too cold for him in the winter and I’d better get more blankets.
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