Category: Life

• Big Scary Moggy Mousers: They have arrived!

  The new barn mousers have arrived.  They came from another barn across the way that has a cat problem, and we have a mouse problem: all good. I took them up into the warm hayfilled mezzanine floor of the barn,  high and safe,  above the big animals, to acclimatise. When they can climb down by…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 22, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  bantam rooster, barn cats, kittens, Nanowrimo, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Someone left the Calf out in the Rain

  Early, early morning just after the milking and Queenie and I were slogging through the mud to get to the gate to open it for Daisy.  The rain is very welcome. The muck and mud; not so welcome. Mia was not feeling photogenic when we were doing the Farmy Walk the other day so here…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 20, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  being bad, crops, designing tiny home, gardens, life on the farm, The Daily View, welding gloves, wet rain, wool, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Do you want to hear how John and I met?

  Lynda who lives on a farm in Colorado looked at that year ago post from yesterday and asked me how this all happened.  That a New Zealand girl could wind up living in the middle of nowhere with an American man. It is not a long story, but I guess it is a sweet one.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 19, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  AFS student, Bob Dylan, how i met, love, marriage, romance, sex, The daily, The temperature

• Rain on The Wet Skunky Dog in The Golden Leaves of Autumn

  Hmm. Skunky dog on a rainy day. Not a pretty olfactory picture. Poor fellow saw the Skunk Off bottles come out and he hid under a bush, not realising that the bush was losing its leaves, and his smelly little snout and little eye could be seen peering back out at me.  But Ton Ton,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 18, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  blogging, colours of autumn, colours of fall, fall, rain, water barrels

• Walkabout the FARMY

  I do love our walkabouts. Come along then. I shall name everyone as we go along for the newer members of the Farmy Clan. First into the barn and here is Pania and Tui, hiding out in the dimness.  It was still a little windy yesterday and they do not like inclement weather.  They came…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 16, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  chickens, chooks, Farm walkabout, guinea fowl image, peacocks, peahens, pigs and sheep, The Daily View, Yesterdays temperature