Category: Living the life

• Working alone on the farmy

  Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers.  Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today.  And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barns, cell phone, farm photography, ladders, life, safety on the farm

• The precious light of dawn

  It appears that against my will I am being carefully and inexorably towed out by the tide of an ebbing summer, back into the dark mornings. The brightness of summer is leaving me.  Too soon. Too soon. The sunrise is only at the strength of a whisper as I carry my buckets of warm water…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 28, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  dawn barn image, Dreams, rabbit stew

• ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

  … to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill.  I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly.  It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its  metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’   But that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cheese, date loaf, failure, farm animals, life, rain, Small house

• You can run…

  But you can’t hide. On the way to pick up the honey frames that the bees had cleaned. So I could pop them in the freezer for 24 hours to kill any bugs, then wrap them and store them for the winter. I saw this.  Devastation.  On the lower portion of the vines. The Vidal Blanc.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 26, 2012

  Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  Books, facebook, grapes, images, peahens, pinterest, research, resources, The Gingerbread house

• And now for something completely different

  We are beginning a brand new project.  Can you guess.  We are still in the planning stages. I will need your help.  I am sure we will manage to make a great big mess first.  Yes. It is a building project.  My first big building project was the large deep Kiwi  verandah on the West…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 25, 2012

  Life

  building projects, gingerbread house, micro living, miniature house