celi – Page 56 – The Kitchen's Garden

Tracking is Hell

Yesterday morning at 9 am I was standing outside the FedEx depot door when it opened, (it is a hundred mile round trip.) I did all that was necessary to have it shipped, including paying with an arm and a leg. I handed my precious envelope to a surly lady behind the computer. Explained that…

Cecilia Mary Gunther

July 2, 2013

Farming, Life

celi, farming, teaching piglets to drink from spigot, The kitchen’s garden, tracking fedEx package, waiting

Piglets set free and our trip is in jeopardy

The piglets have created a creep of their own under a door and into a lovely sheltered pen, their favourite game is to lie right down and roll with their legs tucked in under the door, scamper, then reappear under the door rolling over and over. You need to go outside, I said. So with…

Cecilia Mary Gunther

July 1, 2013

Farming, Life, Photography, Travel

celi, expired passport, farm photography, forgetting, london, piglets in long grass, The kitchen’s garden, travel

Daisy begins her dry period

Today I will not be milking Daisy. The milking has finished. Oh, how I will miss the milk. And I will miss milking but after a while. It will be nice to have the time off. It will be a shock to the system, not milking. We have been milking Daisy for over a year…

Cecilia Mary Gunther

June 30, 2013

Vines and Wine

celi, drying up a dairy cow, farm life, how to dry up a milking cow, milking a cow, The kitchen’s garden