Tag: new zealand

• Please Mrs – Don’t Eat me!

  Look at the kittens face, silently begging the chook not to take a bite. I have been packing. I hauled my silver suitcase out to the barn and weighed it on the feed scales. And I am just under the allowed 50 pounds.  So barring any last minute additions (JOKE) I should be ok. Being…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 1, 2012

  Farming, Travel

  baggage allowance, builders, new zealand, travel

• Slow-Say Day.

  SLOWSAY  I Glimpsed many pictures but took not one For our Page, Yesterday. I Heard lots of words but wrote none To remember, Yes-T’day, I Bought a big silver suitcase, though, To carry along the way. Someday – Soon. I Say Yes to Today. You too? 23 sleeps until lift off. Are you coming to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 10, 2012

  Life, Travel

  blogging, Gratefulness, life, new zealand, say yes, Thank you

• You know what happens when I start telling the stories…

  …it is like a little word sized window is left open at night and stories hop in, one after the other, while we are sleeping.  Before you know it there is a litter of stories giggling on the floor  just waiting to trip you up when you get out of bed. I grabbed this short…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 20, 2012

  Humour, Life, Stories

  new zealand, newspapers, plane, unmarried mothers

• Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!

  Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday.  He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be.  So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck.   While I stole a couple of jars of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 3, 2012

  Bees, Humour, Sustainable farming

  harvesting honey, hogs and sheep together, honey, new zealand, pigs and ram

• I never thought it would happen to me

  Buoyant with the notion that it was going to get cooler yesterday, I spent the late morning tackling some of the jobs I had been ‘leaving ’til after’. I heaved over water troughs and scrubbed the green out of them, refilling them with clear cold water and a little cider vinegar. I got the tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 8, 2012

  Sustainable farming

  bees, cool air, hot pools, new zealand, rotorua, sunstroke, wordpress