Category: Farming

• The Duke of Kupa’s flipside eye

  Imagine if you had a third eyelid, like a veil.  That you could draw, like a blind, across your eyes .. .. but still see out. How disconcerting would that be, to those who wished to pry at you with their miniature crowbars. Your veil eye would keep you safe.  A safety net.  I see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 15, 2012

  Farming, Life, Writing

  peacock, The Duke of Kupa, third eye lid, writing with cracked fingers

• We usually have break outs…

  …not break INS. I know this is hard to see but at the end of the pig sty is .. well WAS a fence..  The Shush sisters have been loitering in their summer fields, and hanging out in the sun-room on the South side of the barn, which meant that I had moved the Bobby…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 14, 2012

  Farming, Life

  cow breaking fences, cows, farming, fencing, hay, kittens in bricks, pigs

• Hiding from the Chill

  Not one furry, or feathered, animal, or bird, moved from the barn until late in the morning yesterday, except maybe to run quickly outside to the loo but that would only be the piggies. The rest are not as particular with their ablutions. So after the milking (the milk production has levelled out at 15…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  cute kittens, guinea fowl, images, Nanowrimo, old barn, peacock, the cold, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden

• Blown Away

  In a very noisy way. A windy way. When I am outside in a wind like this TonTon cannot hear me call him. The peacocks do not even bother coming out. It is fiercely loud. Yesterday the wind roared all day. Last night it raced past the house screeching and trying out every crack, and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 12, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  a cow eats this much hay a day, gales, old barn, wind, winter coming

• Daisy’s Naughty Face

  Daisy is not always nice. But she is slowly increasing her milk production again.  Ever so slowly. She was smelling sweeter yesterday too.  I personally think she has been a little off colour. She has had other symptoms indicating a heath struggle. But she is improving. It may be that because they are eating the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 11, 2012

  Farming, Humour, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cows, Nanowrimo, sheep, The Daily View, Yesterdays Temperatures