Tag: hope

• Do you believe in miracles and magic and angels?

  ‘This is weird.’ John said, as he trudged back from the house to the hay field. He had checked the weather again when he went inside to take his cherry pie out of the oven (the cherries are ripe!) . “It looks like every storm that is coming our way today hits something and kind…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  bring in the hay, farm, farm photographs, farming, hope, images, magic, piglets playing

• How to make dishwasher powder and Daisy: back to normal.

  How to make your own dishwasher powder that works is so easy. Like the laundry powder I was dubious but this stuff is great. It is not a by product of nuclear waste so it will not take off baked on food or clean burnt pots (the best way to clean a burnt pot is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 19, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Life

  cat in wood, challenges, hope, how to make dishwasher powder, peacock, soft kefir cheese, The Duke of Kupa

• The Whisper of Spring’s Wing.

  Yesterday I was working in the barn for a while then came back out into the air and there it was. Warmth. There was no sun, and I was surrounded in snow, yet somehow there was a warm cast to the air. Of course it made no sense to the senses but it was there.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming, hope, peacocks, rooflines, sheila the hereford pig, sowing seeds, spring, sustainable farming

• Yesterday was more than just a sunrise

  You would think.  And to trudge back up to the house, through that sunrise, after feeding the animals and moving them,  and checking who is eating well and who is making more noise and telling Daisy: not long, Honey, not long , and then in for a beautiful hot cup of creamy coffee watching the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2013

  Farming, Photography

  change, good morning, hope, house in sunrise, sunrise, The kitchen’s garden