Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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The Delicious Welcome from Dogs (and Pigs)!
You know how dogs race toward the approaching car with unbridled excitement!? Meeting you at the opening door with wide mouths, and wagging tails. Well, add a pig then you have the usual Farmy greeting. Wai always hangs back a little not liking the jostle of the great unwashed. Look a little further to see…
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Cats in Pictures
Cats effortlessly captivate the camera. With their curves and independence. It is the independence that attracts us. Maybe? Lulu Vandal These two are the last cats that we will have here on the farm. I want to encourage native birds not predator cats. These two cats are old now. But still healthy and hunting. Have…
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Feathers for Mr Flowers
Mr Flowers, our most beautiful and quite old peacock, loses his feathers in the late summer and has now commenced to grow back his long long tail. Every year this happens. His feathers are the brightness in our winter. Peacocks are such ethereal creatures. He is such a beautiful bird. And he is a good…
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Fatality in the Kitchen
Noooo! The coffee machine has finally Spat The Dummy! Dead. Nothing but Sad. No delicious foamy coffee. So it is plunger coffee for us this morning. We were hoping that the espresso machine would last until Christmas then Our John and I were going to go halvies on the cost of a new one. Coffee…
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Back home with slightly scorched wings.
Traveling fast and light with nothing but Little Blue Bag is how I love to travel. And travel energizes me – invigorates me – makes me stronger. But traveling this fast means I sometimes fly a little too close to the sun. And getting back to a messy, sticky house and farm after being at…
The Kitchen's Garden 