Category: Life

• A Screaming Gale or Two ripped Through.

  Yesterday the wind howled all day. Every now and then it would rise up to a biting scratching squall then drop back to a gale. It was not that cold or anything but it was furiously noisy.  We forget how noisy the world gets in a wind like that. Wild.  It blew my hair almost…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 15, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  digging holes, gales, Norsewear, old barn, sleeping dog, squalls, The Daily View, Todays Temperature, ugg boots, wind

• An exciting development

  We had all these plans for yesterday. I even made a list. Silly me.  Three things intervened.  Firstly it rained. Hard.   An inch fell. I am not complaining about that.  Then  the milking parlour pump spat the dummy. It did a proper job this time too.             So I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 14, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Tiny House

  builders, chicken coop, designs, granny flat, rain

• Talking about babies –

  WE had another wicked frost yesterday morning.  The ground was crunchy as I trudged to and fro in my gumboots and clown suit feeding animals and getting ready for the milking. We still managed to pick kale, lettuce and radishes for lunch but the pickin’s are getting slim! Mia has been let in with the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 12, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  ewes and rams, gestation time for a pig, meatballs on silverbeet, min/max thermometer, new kitten, The Daily View, Todays Temperature

• A little Surprise, then Another one…

  This certainly is a  surprised chook but no this is not the surprise – This is the surprise! But in a way no surprise at all.   The Matriarch walked into a wild scene at the hairdressers yesterday, they were all excited because a stray kitten had wandered into the salon, walked down the back…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 10, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming, Writing

  calf, chicken.chook, kitten, Nanowrimo, scheduling

• Sometimes we all need to have a good think.

  Yesterday I awoke to 22F, this morning it is 40F.  But summer  is over. That life’s force we call Mother Nature is more powerful that any goverment, any warlike clan.  Any law, any silly little wish. Any roof and any plan. When they say the Force of Nature they mean the ultimate force.  She is the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 9, 2012

  Bees, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  jersey cows, life, mother nature, planning, preparing for winter, sustainable farming, taking stock