Tag: The Duke of Kupa

• 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

• Kupa is not better but not worse

  No-one can understand how this big peacock  is still alive. Every breath is so hard won and everything I read tells me that a bird cannot survive such a  massive bacterial  attack for very long and that he should be responding to these antibiotics very quickly or succomb very quickly. Birds do not linger.   But there…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn images, cat in barn, farming, farming in the snow, gasping peacock, sheep in barn, The Duke of Kupa, writing

• 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

• Good news and Lots of Sweetness

  Marmalade still loves Boo Boo. But that is not the good news. We all know about the Marmalade and Boo Boo show! Everyone loves the new hay. But that is not the good news either. The Good news is that the Duke of Kupa is not doing the gaggy face anymore. The gaping. And rasping.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 2, 2013

  homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, peacock, sheep, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden

• Kupa’s First Eye..

  The first eye feather of the the season. We have been watching his tail feathers grow and this morning there it was, the first eye feather, it is destined to be the longest of his tail feathers and when he lifts his tail in the spring and fans it out it will be the tallest.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 15, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  homesteading, peacock feathers, The Duke of Kupa, twilight