Category: Life

• The Last of the Wedding.

  Wedding Dress Jeep Cufflinks Dressing. College Girls with Scabby Knees. Dancing Bridesmaids That was yesterday and this morning I have a tired brain. Soon Third Son will come and collect me and carry me off to the Central Valley. It is a four hour drive and he is one of those drivers who you have…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 12, 2011

  Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  caifornia, wedding dress

• Up in the hills of Sacramento

  I have reached SACRAMENTO and have been gently transported to the Big House somewhere  up in the hills. We did a lot of this yesterday.  But today it is quiet and I will soon crank the big empty kitchen into gear. You will be thrilled to learn that  I  have  joined the masses and am…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 10, 2011

  Life, Travel

  sacramento, tree garden

• Because it’s right, not might or fright .. just right.

  My first real holiday job when I was 15 was cleaning in a private surgical hospital.  I wore a green nylon uniform, with two pockets and my school shoes. (We only had two pairs of shoes in those days and I could not wear netball boots to work.)  When you become a cleaner, secret doors…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 4, 2011

  Life, Writing

  being different, broom cupboards, cleaners, decisions, foreigners, life, private hospitals

• Farm Days from Dawn to Dusk

  Did you ever see that movie Dusk ’til Dawn. Well, a day on the sustainable, self sufficient, old fashioned farm is Nothing LIKE that!!! It starts at dawn. John leaves for work in the dark at 5am.  I talk to you guys and catch up with my messages until the sun comes up. I make…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 2, 2011

  Farming, Life, Organic farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, cow, dawn, dusk, images, sheep, sunrise, sunset

• 100th Post in the middle of NZ week.

  When are we going to get back to dining out in New Zealand? and Netball! and the New Zealand Food? Soon, Soon darling. The 100th Post needs to be noted.  This is a milestone.  I need to thank you all for building with me this far. I love working with you guys. In fact the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 28, 2011

  Humour, Life

  100th post, cell phones, combine harvester, fun, New Zealand Week, tele marketing, telephones