Tag: The Daily View

• Sunday Farm Cameos

  It seems we had a day of cameos. Solo performances. A Sunday. Son of Son of Neanderthol Man. Just watching. Author with his big liquid baby eyes.  The Duke Of Kupa on the prowl.  Paisley Daisy does calm Sunday very well. Sheila the Babe doing her imitation of Charlotte’s flying ears. The Daily View.  And…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 29, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  rooster, Sheila The Babe, Sunday, The Daily View, The Duke of Kupa, Yesterdays Temperatures

• There was a car hiding in my barn – off with its head!

  The peacocks have done a good job of camouflaging this car. It is a parts car, for a project that is on hold, and was using up an entire bay in the barn. So out it goes into the cold. To make room for animals in the winter.  Now you see it. Now you don’t.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 28, 2012

  Farming, Writing

  barns, car in barn, corn harvest, kittens playing, The Daily View, tree house, white russian, Yesterdays Temperatures

• A gypsy summer day with three new teensy weensy arrivals

  First this most magnificent day in chronological order because that is the way we do things. It was like a sumptious spring day yesterday. All cushiony and warm and loud with birdsong. A scanty bright sunrise over the swimming pool.  Fat sheep!! A growth spurt in the fields and gardens.  The bees were out in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 25, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  chickens, chicks, chooks, sunrise, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, warm day, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Decisions: Managing the household and farm during NanoWriMo

  I have made a few decisions. The hardest decision is to give up my night time White Russian made with home made Coffee Liquer and raw milk. We will not discuss the Vodka as it is against the law in America to have a Still. I will only drink tea in the evenings in November.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography, Writing

  kittens, Nanowrimo, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, timetable, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Big Scary Moggy Mousers: They have arrived!

  The new barn mousers have arrived.  They came from another barn across the way that has a cat problem, and we have a mouse problem: all good. I took them up into the warm hayfilled mezzanine floor of the barn,  high and safe,  above the big animals, to acclimatise. When they can climb down by…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 22, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  bantam rooster, barn cats, kittens, Nanowrimo, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, Yesterdays Temperatures