Tag: farming
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Kupa is not better but not worse
No-one can understand how this big peacock is still alive. Every breath is so hard won and everything I read tells me that a bird cannot survive such a massive bacterial attack for very long and that he should be responding to these antibiotics very quickly or succomb very quickly. Birds do not linger. But there…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Sheila’s bedmaking
Sheila spends a lot of time on her bed these cold days. You can always tell how cold it is going to be by how high she pulls the straw up. This is a day time bed. Her day bed. Later when she was out in the fields the chickens came in and wrecked it.…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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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
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Every day dawns anew, washed, shiny and ready for living in.
Every day there is a new dawn. Every day. Everyone gets one. It is true. No matter what troubles we are dealing with, we all get another chance tomorrow. Yesterday the farmy woke to a little snow and more of the deep chill. Not as deep as some and certainly not as much snow and…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Mama, the mother ewe, has had a bad few days..
And has miscarried. She had slowed down in the last few days. And I was cycling through the usual Mama remedies. But then her condition began to really worry me so I separated her from the others. Though she had been standing alone anyway. She was coerced into the barn then lay down on her…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
The Kitchen's Garden 