Category: Photography

• The Pigs Are in the Vegetable Garden!

  But thats ok. I left the gate open for them. Queenie is not amused, but in all honesty Queenie is very seldom amused. She is a solemn cow. Have you ever looked up and realised your day is almost gone and you have not even Thought about dinner. Well Dinner was not my main concern…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 23, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  hereford heifer, pigs as diggers, vegetable garden

• 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

• 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