Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Lowering the Light
The season is slowly lowering her light. Casting her shadows longer and further. Autumnal shades of gold are creeping in around the edges: Today I start editing the text for this week’s podcast on SubStack. Podcast on Sunday. Farm Sounds on Wednesday. So the words here will be fewer today as this week’s story is…
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Trading in the Old Phone
I said thank you so much to my old phone and traded her in without a qualm. When I was working at the mill I had a bit more money. And I bought a decent phone. Mainly for the ability to take a decent image with my phone. Then a few weeks ago I came…
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Green Waters
I got some pond weed and put it in one of the white chickens water bowls to see if they might eat the weed as extra nutrition. Every experiment needs a control. And the chickens preferred the control. The green water was roundly rejected. the clean water was drunk up. The white chickens preferred the…
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The Best Present Ever
I have given up on trying to buy presents for the farm-hand husband. Nothing is ever right. Year after year my presents lie unused on the table, sometimes for months until I put them away myself. Total waste of money and effort. For a few years I gave him cash which he quite liked. Last…
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What a Difference a Day Makes!
Things have a habit of working out right? Well, not always. But yesterday they did. Yesterday I felt that my MiL turned a corner in her recovery and the Physical Therapist was happy to graduate her to a cane to walk with, (leaving the walker behind) after she passed a series of tests. In a…
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