Category: Life

• Frozen rain falls like sharp stones

  Do you know that sharp gravel that you  can buy by the truck load? For the drive. The lane. The track.  Men buy it because the bashed up rock wants to snap back together and form a pointy barbed stony mat. Women would rather buy the soft rounded stones that are gentle on bare summer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 22, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, farming, farming by yourself, homesteading, life, The kitchen’s garden

• As the snow turns to a dogs delight: slush and mud

  The day stayed well above freezing yesterday. The snow began to melt and all the animals  heads came back up. Incredibly the sparrows indulged in a bird bath. Splashing about in the melting ice. Not quite that warm I thought. But there you are,  I am  not that kind of bird. I opened all the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, cats, dogs, farm photography, no waste, peacock, pigs, The Duke of Kupa

• Kupa is not better but not worse

  No-one can understand how this big peacock  is still alive. Every breath is so hard won and everything I read tells me that a bird cannot survive such a  massive bacterial  attack for very long and that he should be responding to these antibiotics very quickly or succomb very quickly. Birds do not linger.   But there…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn images, cat in barn, farming, farming in the snow, gasping peacock, sheep in barn, The Duke of Kupa, writing

• The Duke of Kupa is fighting

  The pneumonia is proving hard to break. He just stands in his new big cage and watches me, breathing and breathing out, hauling noisy air through his lungs. But as of yesterdays afternoon he was eating his seed mixed with yoghurt and drinking his potion, plus water. And as of this morning though I can…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cow, farm life, farming in the cold, jade mullaly, missing child, peacock, peacock gasping, peahens, pneumonia in peacocks, sheep

• a peacock in the bathroom

  Kupa has pneumonia and is gravely ill. He is now gasping for air. His breathing is noisy. Dark tongue and dark nostrils, both of which should be pink. He is not getting enough oxygen.  And I did not see him eat yesterday so we went to my vet in the afternoon. After we visited the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 17, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  peacock gasping for air, peacock with pneumonia, sick peacock