Tag: rain

• Rain and Ice, Ice and Rain

  Yesterday, tiny crystals of cold jaggedy ice rained down out of the sky, clattering through the trees and onto the ground, tinkling like the harnesses of a hundred prancing celestial horses. It was a curious sound. As they fell they packed into each other like sharp gravel,  like rock salt on a fish. Then as…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 28, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  animals in the barn, building a tiny house, Dorset ram, ice rain, rain

• Rain on The Wet Skunky Dog in The Golden Leaves of Autumn

  Hmm. Skunky dog on a rainy day. Not a pretty olfactory picture. Poor fellow saw the Skunk Off bottles come out and he hid under a bush, not realising that the bush was losing its leaves, and his smelly little snout and little eye could be seen peering back out at me.  But Ton Ton,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 18, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  blogging, colours of autumn, colours of fall, fall, rain, water barrels

• An exciting development

  We had all these plans for yesterday. I even made a list. Silly me.  Three things intervened.  Firstly it rained. Hard.   An inch fell. I am not complaining about that.  Then  the milking parlour pump spat the dummy. It did a proper job this time too.             So I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 14, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Tiny House

  builders, chicken coop, designs, granny flat, rain

• ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

  … to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill.  I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly.  It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its  metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’   But that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cheese, date loaf, failure, farm animals, life, rain, Small house

• The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!

  The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or  curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had.  But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming, Vegetable Gardens, Vines and Wine

  cooler, old fashioned, rain, seedlings, tomatoes, vidal blanc grapes, wine