Category: Humour

• Dividing up the loot

  A couple of times a week the local grocery store gives The Farmy a bag of expired produce.  I sit on one bucket surrounded by other empty buckets and set to work chopping  and dividing up all the vegetables, potatoes and fruit. I am immediately surrounded in a rabble of  watchers, outright looters and opportunists, …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 20, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  chickens, farming, labneh, peacock, produce, roosters, tame animals, thekitchensgarden

• The Coupe Rises and a Wee Walkabout (Part One)

  Yesterday was a very big day in the project to build a self contained cabin attached to the house. It is called the Coupe because I styled it on the old chicken coops that used to be in the farmyards of every farm around here. Using the sun to warm it and design to cool…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 17, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Tiny House

  border collie, designing new spaces, granny flats, hereford heifer, herefors pigs, retirement houses, space and light, The kitchens garden project, tiny cabins, Tiny Houses

• A Little Dr Seuss Spot – Of Sun and the Origins of an Egg

  Someone laid an egg yesterday.  Was it you? Maybe not.  Certainly was not you and I know it was not me.  And we know for sure that Queenie, waiting patiently under leaden skies for a little sun, did not lay an egg.  Out of the gray a roving spotlight of sun shot through and we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 4, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  Ayrshire, calf, cow, farm eggs, hereford, sun, sunspots

• Why isn’t the list getting any Shorter?

  Yesterday I reordered the order, and all the animals went in and out of the barn with ease and no escapes. So now the pens are all sorted out for the period that I am away. It is very lucky that pigs do not have digits or at the very least Daisy’s height. They would…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 24, 2012

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  dawn, Made in America, Made in china, old barn, pig face, sheep, Shopping, the old barn

• Miss C is Miss Ing …

  … in action. Or soon will be. Today she might be laid on her back, under a tree, looking at the cloudless sky.  And wondering if, now that she has started writing, will she ever be able to stop.  And where did this superb, blissful weather come from?! And how long can she lie here…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 17, 2012

  Farming, Humour, nanowrimo, Writing

  Nanowrimo, sleep ins, trees, writing