Category: Humour

• Mercury says hush.

  My internet system has finally bowed to the inevitable.  The Man in the Mercury has been watching Mars and the Moon and my internet connection has finally given up the ghost through lack of celestial attention and has been sent to his room with Camera. But my nice little internet man says I should be…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 7, 2012

  Humour, Life

  Barn, internet troubles

• Longing for evening

  Yesterday was just a little day.  A nice peaceful Sunday. Milking the cow while TonTon watched from his usual  place.  Telling Sheila she knows that John does not like her to play in the traffic and get back in the barn right now it is time for your dinner. Watching the chickens drink the last…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 6, 2012

  Humour, Sustainable farming

  bed time, border collie, chickens drink milk, grapes, sheila the pig

• Sit Sheila, Sit

  Sit Sheila! Good Girl.  Down Sheila. What a good girl.  Charlotte, Sit. Charlotte. SIT! Thank you Sheila. Good girl, Sheila. But I was talking to Charlotte. Now Charlotte. You have to learn to sit. No, I don’t, she says.  Well, you will be sent to coventry like smelly TonTon. Charlotte is bad, miss c. But…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  pigs, skunk in the barn, training pigs to sit

• Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!

  Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday.  He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be.  So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck.   While I stole a couple of jars of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 3, 2012

  Bees, Humour, Sustainable farming

  harvesting honey, hogs and sheep together, honey, new zealand, pigs and ram

• Salsa Verde and the Piggies are Put through their Paces.

  Remember these from the garden. Tomatillos.  They hang like little paper lanterns. And inside the little paper lantern a tomato grows. A green tomato. A tomatillo.  So yesterday Our John made Grilled Tomatillo Salsa Verde.  Char grill tomatillo, capsicum (sweet pepper) and  a couple of jalapenos until soft. Smash up. Add onion, lime juice, seasonings…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 30, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  border collie, hereford pigs, miss c, salsa verde, The kitchen’s garden, tomatillo, training pigs to heel