Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Happy New Year
Last night I wish I had gorged on grapes while bells rung, toasting my feet on the fire of my (least favorite) calendar, then running all over the house opening the windows and doors and running all the way back around closing them. I wish I had grabbed the whiskey bottle and a lump of coal, rubbed…
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New Years Eve
So … do you have a family tradition for New Years Eve? I don’t. Though I love the idea. I get up early so I do not stay up late but I like the idea of the New Year being celebrated. The freshness of it. The promise. And we all need a new start –…
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Light
You remember that my Dad always said that “where there is light there is a photograph.” Godot says, where there is light there is warmth. And whenever I turn the big overhead light on in the barn – within minutes Godot is perched under it. Tui had a turn too. I did not have my…
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Lifting Gloom
For the last few days we have had good big periods of sun. Vitamin D is flooding back into our systems. All the animals lounge in the delicious sunlight. Soaking it up. Like yellow flowers. Though a good number stare through the window (where I am cooking for dinner guests) saying – Now? Are you…
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The Christmas cow
No, not Elsie. Our darling head tossing Elsie. She is not the Christmas Cow. (John asked why she is still wearing her halter – I still cannot get too close to her, so until she is quite calm with me, I need to be able to have that halter.) There is another cow coming. Another…
The Kitchen's Garden 