Category: Living the life

• Pickled Beetroot amongst the bustle.

  What a lovely day it was yesterday.  Cool, with a little breeze.  Different neighbours popping in and out feeding Daisy their garden leftovers or borrowing hay making tools.  Yesterday I felt for the first time as though I was part of my little local rural community.  And that is hard as a foreigner in a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2012

  Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  canned beets, canned beets and onions, farmers cheese with rosemary, pickled beetroot, sheep

• The Farmy is back online. There have been a few changes.

  Camera and the Connection have returned.  So we have images and we have the internet back to its usual comforting crawl. And oh I missed you so.  It was very strange not to be constructing sentences in my head all day and collecting shots for you.  The Duke of Kupa says welcome back. All is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 9, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, farm animals, feeling the rain coming, internet problems, raising pork, sheep

• Mercury says hush.

  My internet system has finally bowed to the inevitable.  The Man in the Mercury has been watching Mars and the Moon and my internet connection has finally given up the ghost through lack of celestial attention and has been sent to his room with Camera. But my nice little internet man says I should be…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 7, 2012

  Humour, Life

  Barn, internet troubles

• Sit Sheila, Sit

  Sit Sheila! Good Girl.  Down Sheila. What a good girl.  Charlotte, Sit. Charlotte. SIT! Thank you Sheila. Good girl, Sheila. But I was talking to Charlotte. Now Charlotte. You have to learn to sit. No, I don’t, she says.  Well, you will be sent to coventry like smelly TonTon. Charlotte is bad, miss c. But…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  pigs, skunk in the barn, training pigs to sit

• Rain, Hail, The Works!

  The black clouds I noticed when I started to carry buckets of water to the barn in preparation for the milking yesterday morning, were not as frightening as the  continual thunder. It sounded like a monster train running over a bump in the  track not too far away. The thunder rolled again and again for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 1, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  camera, drought, midwest, Nikon D70, rain on hay