Category: Writing

• Big Dog’s Coat of Not Many Colours

  It was cold today. I mean not too cold.  My words are too short. I feel I should be writing something poetic about the approaching winter and I know that Smidge would say this with a whole lot more elegance and poetry but there was a wintry feel to the air that blew around our…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 27, 2012

  Farming, Humour, Photography, Writing

  cows eye, Dog Coat, images, little cat, Nanowrimo, photography, story development, writing

• Decisions: Managing the household and farm during NanoWriMo

  I have made a few decisions. The hardest decision is to give up my night time White Russian made with home made Coffee Liquer and raw milk. We will not discuss the Vodka as it is against the law in America to have a Still. I will only drink tea in the evenings in November.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography, Writing

  kittens, Nanowrimo, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, timetable, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• The Toughest Thing about getting Ready for NaNoWriMo…

  … is the waiting. I am desperate to start my book. NaNoWriMo is a writing challenge. There will be thousands of people doing it in the month of November. We will all attempt write a 50;000 word book in a month. It will be a little book but it will be written. And My book…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 21, 2012

  Humour, Stories, Writing

  cows, Nanowrimo, The Box

• 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

• A little Surprise, then Another one…

  This certainly is a  surprised chook but no this is not the surprise – This is the surprise! But in a way no surprise at all.   The Matriarch walked into a wild scene at the hairdressers yesterday, they were all excited because a stray kitten had wandered into the salon, walked down the back…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 10, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming, Writing

  calf, chicken.chook, kitten, Nanowrimo, scheduling