Category: Life

• Laundry Soap for Bad Girls

  When I was a teenager I was sent to live with the Nuns.  Well, it was the 70’s, NZ, and I was a pregnant convent girl from a big Catholic family with a sick mum.  This is where bad girls ended up, they said. The Convent I was sent to was beautiful, old, fragrant, with…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 14, 2014

  homesteading, Humour, Life

  convent girls, home made laundry soap, laundry girls, sent away, washing farm dogs

• A Surprise for The Matriarch

  I kept this a secret from everyone until The Matriarch came home because I wanted it to be a surprise. (And she reads the blog every day so i could not even whisper it) So after we picked her up from the airport and dawdled home I took her into the Coupe and introduced her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 12, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  dogs on a run, granny flat, rain, retreat house, tiny house

• While I was out doing the rounds today

  Collecting left over food from the store and the pub, I even drove over to Route 66 to visit my favourite hairdresser, Sheila did her housework.  I had not realised until after I had fed everyone in the rain,  I went out in the almost dark around the side of the barn to shut her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2014

  Farming, Life, Photography

  country road, old barns, snow on the plains, trees in the landscape

• Your voice echoes when there is snow in the clouds

  Yesterday it snowed again. But it was a gentle sweet silent snow that did not last too long. But the clouds sat heavy. Heavy clouds breathing light snow. Like kind gods. A benevolent uncle kind of snow. I set about trapping and catching the frostbitten chickens who had run off to the barn before the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat playing with dog, chickens roosters, cows, dog playing with cat, farming in the deep cold, frostbite on chickens combs, homesteading, old barn, rooster, snow in the country, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Frostbite on Barn Chickens

  Still cold. Do you see Daisy’s breath? First  something pretty: The Old Codger has given me his snow shoes .. aren’t they wonderful. When I walk the dogs across the snow in the morning I shall be wearing these .  I look forward to our morning walk. And now for something not so pretty. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire cow, Barn, celi, chickens with frostbite, cows, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, frostbite on chickens, The kitchen’s garden, winter farming