Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther

• Poor Daisy has a cold. So I have given her a pumpkin.

  Hope you all had a great weekend. c

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 7, 2011

  Farming, Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cat, chicken, chicks, Daisy the cow, kitten, kitty

• Because it’s right, not might or fright .. just right.

  My first real holiday job when I was 15 was cleaning in a private surgical hospital.  I wore a green nylon uniform, with two pockets and my school shoes. (We only had two pairs of shoes in those days and I could not wear netball boots to work.)  When you become a cleaner, secret doors…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 4, 2011

  Life, Writing

  being different, broom cupboards, cleaners, decisions, foreigners, life, private hospitals

• Strange lights in the night.

  Caught betwixt and between.Yesterday I saw this leaf hanging way up high, hanging by a thread in a tree where it does not even belong.  Just visiting.  As I was shooting it lifted and simply blew away. Last night it was windy and one of the loft windows was not quite shut. Open a slither.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 3, 2011

  Farm Animals, Humour, Writing

  cows, farming, strange lights, wind

• Farm Days from Dawn to Dusk

  Did you ever see that movie Dusk ’til Dawn. Well, a day on the sustainable, self sufficient, old fashioned farm is Nothing LIKE that!!! It starts at dawn. John leaves for work in the dark at 5am.  I talk to you guys and catch up with my messages until the sun comes up. I make…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 2, 2011

  Farming, Life, Organic farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, cow, dawn, dusk, images, sheep, sunrise, sunset

• Mama’s Retro Pumpkin Pie: can you bear it?

  My little sister Gabe, who is developing a  farm  in New Zealand, wrote to me yesterday, asking for our Mums Pumpkin Pie recipe. Coincidentally my little brother T asked for the recipe a couple of weeks ago as well.  And yes they are both Littlies.   You will remember the Littlies from the beach house…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 1, 2011

  Baking, Recipes, Vegetarian

  coconut, egg whites, frozen thistle, meringue, nutmeg, pastry, pumpkin pie