Tag: peacock

• “Have you seen my wives?” says The Duke.

  Working in the barn yesterday I heard a rustling and looked out the door.  This is what I saw. “Kupa.”  I said.  “How are you darling?”  “Have you seen Tui or Pania?” he asked, in his polite peacock voice. “I have lost my wives.”   “Oh, honey.” I said. “I think they are way out…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, building a tiny house, can I play with you?, little sheep, peacock, peacock feathers, peacock train, sheep images

• Dividing up the loot

  A couple of times a week the local grocery store gives The Farmy a bag of expired produce.  I sit on one bucket surrounded by other empty buckets and set to work chopping  and dividing up all the vegetables, potatoes and fruit. I am immediately surrounded in a rabble of  watchers, outright looters and opportunists, …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 20, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  chickens, farming, labneh, peacock, produce, roosters, tame animals, thekitchensgarden

• Multi tasking would be better as a monotask

  This is the result of multi tasking. Do not mix trying not to repack, simmering a redwine reduction for tonight’s pasta, making a homemade pizza for lunch, cleaning out the fridge, stamping cards and making the Final List, plus cleaning the basement laundry when I really should have been tidying the bedroom.  A beautiful crust,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 2, 2012

  Farming, Travel

  cows, food, homemade pizza, peacock, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• The Duke of Kupa’s flipside eye

  Imagine if you had a third eyelid, like a veil.  That you could draw, like a blind, across your eyes .. .. but still see out. How disconcerting would that be, to those who wished to pry at you with their miniature crowbars. Your veil eye would keep you safe.  A safety net.  I see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 15, 2012

  Farming, Life, Writing

  peacock, The Duke of Kupa, third eye lid, writing with cracked fingers

• Hiding from the Chill

  Not one furry, or feathered, animal, or bird, moved from the barn until late in the morning yesterday, except maybe to run quickly outside to the loo but that would only be the piggies. The rest are not as particular with their ablutions. So after the milking (the milk production has levelled out at 15…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  cute kittens, guinea fowl, images, Nanowrimo, old barn, peacock, the cold, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden