Category: Life

• Bad news about the Bees and a Chance to Vote.

  We have snow on the ground. Not much. Almost everyone likes to play in the snow, even if you do not have hands for snow balls. Mama continues to get larger and I can literally see her lambs doing flip flops inside her.  Some of us have no interest in playing in the snow though.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bad news, bees, pigs in snow, roosters, sheep in snow, thekitchensgarden, vote, writing competition

• Second-hand Barbie made me do it!

  It was way too cold to take children outside yesterday. We need to invent a new weather term for when the wind has nasty hard crystals of snow in it. Not snow that gathers, or drops prettily, just white driving snow that whips through on its way to somewhere else, like a transient doggard mean-spirited…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2013

  Humour, Life

  barbie, children, driving snow, homeschooling

• Look who’s back!

  Mia: Who? What? What’s going on?  Why is it so dark in here? Mama: Mia let your eyes adjust to the barn. Slow down. Now, who’s here? Are the little people back? Meadow: Is it the little people? Mia: Daisy has one. Minty:What? Mama:  Don’t say What  – its rude. Minty: Well what am I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  children, sheep

• Hiding out from the Rain and the Story of Daisy’s name

  And then it poured!  Isn’t this grand, I said to the animals as they stood at their doors watching the rain come down.  Sometimes on rainy days we tell each other stories.  Daisy wanted to know why she had been called Daisy.  It all started with a rainy day I said to Daisy. With the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dying, grief, naming, rain

• Now you see me, now you don’t

  As the temperature rose yesterday the earth exhaled a blanket of  cloudy breath dripping with whispers.  I took you for a wee walk down my road.  Now, turn your head from this moonscape, look out to the West, can you see the farmy? Take twenty more steps…  Look again and we see nothing but mist.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 29, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  farning, fog, micro farming, sustainable living