Category: Vines and Wine

• Daisy was poorly yesterday

  I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her.  Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing.        …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  chewing the cud, cold, compost, cow not eating, lambs, late spring, sick cow

• Creating Nesting Boxes for Peahens – Hows that for Positive Thinking!

  The peahens, Pania and Tui, are spending most of their time in the barn lately. Of course Kupa is up there with them.  They are together much more than previously so I have high hopes of some eggs. They should start laying sometime in late March or early April. These are young hens so they…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  how to make nesting boxes for peahens, lamb images, peacock and peahen pictures, photography, small scale farming, snow pictures

• A little sun goes a long way

  The early morning sun yesterday was a sight for sore eyes. And tired eyes. Immediately we were uplifted. I opened all the doors in the barn and light flowed straight past me and into the gloom.  Everyone crowded for the tiny warm spaces.  Some are better at sharing than others. The Duke of Kupa is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 4, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Vines and Wine

  farming, lambs, micro farming, peacock, peacock plumage, sunrise on a cow

• Look who’s back!

  Mia: Who? What? What’s going on?  Why is it so dark in here? Mama: Mia let your eyes adjust to the barn. Slow down. Now, who’s here? Are the little people back? Meadow: Is it the little people? Mia: Daisy has one. Minty:What? Mama:  Don’t say What  – its rude. Minty: Well what am I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  children, sheep

• The Mists of Writing while Walking the Boundaries.

  Mama the policeman will have something to say about that.  Every photograph, though taken on the same day, has slightly different light and is viewed differently by each reader. This is why every writer has something viable to say.  Some might say: Mama you are looking fat. Others might think she is looking a little…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 3, 2013

  Farming, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  barn in snow, cats, old barns, sheep, writing, writing desk