Category: Vines and Wine

• Writing and farming below freezing

  Yesterday was colder than ever and the wind was blowing fiercely scoring the skin off my face and the water out of my own eyes. So cold that if you are doing the dishes and your hands are a little wet, and you pop outside for a piece of wood for the stove and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, homesteading, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• A secret and a kiss

  Look at this beautiful but bitterly cold day.        It honestly does not look as cold as it was. Though in a month we will look back on yesterday and think.. that was not That cold. Guinea fowl for Deb and Equus. And my fat piggies. Officially plonkers now. On Dec 10 two…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 25, 2013

  Vines and Wine

• Meals on Wheels

  Yesterday, I had just started my photographs for the day when I was told that a little mother that I knew had to go into the hospital leaving 6 little children  (one a newborn) and their dad at home. So I began the meals on wheels starting with home made pizza for lunch (I had…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 17, 2013

  Vines and Wine

• The first Snow of the Winter

  I was most definitely not ready for having an entire day below freezing in November.   Though I just checked the blog post for this date exactly a year ago and it was only marginally warmer.  So why am I surprised. Though no snow then. This is Boos first time seeing snow and as predicted…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2013

  homesteading, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  animals in the snow, autumn in the snow, farming, Nanowrimo, snow, writing

• Bees and Breeding cows

  The bees were out in force yesterday. It was a wee bit warmer so out they came to look for food. But the freeze had knocked all the flowers over. I am feeding them their sugar water right at the hive now, determined that they will live through this winter. Sheila followed me about my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 28, 2013

  Vines and Wine