Category: Humour

• The leaves are piling up and so am I.

  I like the leaves, I never rake them. The winds will come and deal with them soon enough. Until then I like the disheveled look of them. Their random falls and light shuffles. Shuffling light. Parchments and promises. It is Saturday.  There will be lots of this! Sleepy time for babies. The Marmalade Cat is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Vines and Wine

  dog and kitten

• Sit, Boo-Boo – Sit.

  Have you ever known a child who is perfect one place (maybe school) and a proper little devil in another place (maybe home).  I know a dog like that. His name is Blue.  We call him Boo.  Sit, Boo-Boo, sit. He is the opposite – perfect inside and a heathen outside. Boo and I have…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 25, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life

  australian cattle dog, Blue Heeler, cows, faming, pigs, sustanable living

• Vegetable garden gone. Frost. Blink. Frost. Gone.

  Daily sweetness.  Marmalade Cat (to be – still Marmalade Kitten really) and Boo-Nanny.  Not enough yet? Let’s have a double wammy. The Marmalade kitten creeping up on Boo Nanny. The most obvious ambush in the world. Wee kittys .. um..toilet is becoming more normal so we are going outside three or four times a day…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  cats dogs, celi, cow, farm animals, frosted vegetable gardens, hoop house, kittens and dogs, life, living the life, sheep, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• And so the cold comes..

  But not to all of us.  Some of us get to lay about in the sun and play. While the rest of us work. More walnuts, I will dry them for cakes. Walnuts are very high in protein. First though, it is important to take the hull off so they don’t go moldy. Then I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 22, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  autumn, black walnuts, chickens in the barn, kitten and dog pictures, The Daily View

• I promise this is the last of the “Oh, oh, that is so sweet!” posts. For now.

  The moment Boo hears his kittens begin to cry for a feed, he busts into the house through the screen doors.  And I do mean Bust In with a Crash.  Then he rushes for their door and tries to jam his nose under the door until I get there with the bottle.   If I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 13, 2013

  homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  australian cattle dog, Blue Heeler, dog and kittens