Category: Farming

• Kupa is not better but not worse

  No-one can understand how this big peacock  is still alive. Every breath is so hard won and everything I read tells me that a bird cannot survive such a  massive bacterial  attack for very long and that he should be responding to these antibiotics very quickly or succomb very quickly. Birds do not linger.   But there…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn images, cat in barn, farming, farming in the snow, gasping peacock, sheep in barn, The Duke of Kupa, writing

• The Duke of Kupa is fighting

  The pneumonia is proving hard to break. He just stands in his new big cage and watches me, breathing and breathing out, hauling noisy air through his lungs. But as of yesterdays afternoon he was eating his seed mixed with yoghurt and drinking his potion, plus water. And as of this morning though I can…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cow, farm life, farming in the cold, jade mullaly, missing child, peacock, peacock gasping, peahens, pneumonia in peacocks, sheep

• a peacock in the bathroom

  Kupa has pneumonia and is gravely ill. He is now gasping for air. His breathing is noisy. Dark tongue and dark nostrils, both of which should be pink. He is not getting enough oxygen.  And I did not see him eat yesterday so we went to my vet in the afternoon. After we visited the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 17, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  peacock gasping for air, peacock with pneumonia, sick peacock

• Writing and farming below freezing

  Yesterday was colder than ever and the wind was blowing fiercely scoring the skin off my face and the water out of my own eyes. So cold that if you are doing the dishes and your hands are a little wet, and you pop outside for a piece of wood for the stove and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, homesteading, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• A Day on the Couch

  Well it was SO cold. It never even reached above Freezing Point yesterday.  And the day before yesterday I overdid it just a little. So I had to have a rest day which means no sitting down, no bending over and no lifting. My kefir mother had been working for  24 hours so  I made…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 6, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Recipes

  apple custard pie, ewes, farming, homesteading, rams