Tag: peacock

• Hay laid Down

  

  And Heat turning up.  Though, we had a foggy start yesterday the warm wind came up and commenced to dry the hay nicely.  Fingers crossed.  Daisy’s production is still holding steady at 45 – 50 pounds per milking. (That is over 90 pounds a day. Eating nothing but good forage and weeds and kale, carrots…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 30, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  peacock, pigs calves, poppies

• The Duke of Kupa

  When we were children and lived at the beach on a quarter acre section, we had lots of guinea pigs. Thirty-six at one time I remember.  (We were very proud of that number) Males and females, shorthaired and long haired, all colours. The only ones who went into cages were the pregnant mothers, the rest…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 21, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  dealing with death, death, farming, grieving, mist fog, peacock, rain

• As the snow turns to a dogs delight: slush and mud

  The day stayed well above freezing yesterday. The snow began to melt and all the animals  heads came back up. Incredibly the sparrows indulged in a bird bath. Splashing about in the melting ice. Not quite that warm I thought. But there you are,  I am  not that kind of bird. I opened all the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, cats, dogs, farm photography, no waste, peacock, pigs, The Duke of Kupa

• The Duke of Kupa is fighting

  The pneumonia is proving hard to break. He just stands in his new big cage and watches me, breathing and breathing out, hauling noisy air through his lungs. But as of yesterdays afternoon he was eating his seed mixed with yoghurt and drinking his potion, plus water. And as of this morning though I can…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cow, farm life, farming in the cold, jade mullaly, missing child, peacock, peacock gasping, peahens, pneumonia in peacocks, sheep

• The last of the summer work

  Kupa resumes his role at the top of the totem pole. Speaking of poles the cats are using the resting clatter box as a pathway to the loft. No more climbing the ladder for them! The chook house was cleaned out. John took over once he saw what I was about and he spread the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 5, 2013

  homesteading, Life

  cats in the barn, chickens, cleaning out the chook house, hay, peacock, straw, The Duke of Kupa