Tag: tiny house

• A Surprise for The Matriarch

  I kept this a secret from everyone until The Matriarch came home because I wanted it to be a surprise. (And she reads the blog every day so i could not even whisper it) So after we picked her up from the airport and dawdled home I took her into the Coupe and introduced her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 12, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  dogs on a run, granny flat, rain, retreat house, tiny house

• Piglets leave home and Day One of the Home Grown September Challenge.

  Today, Red Hat Matt,  one of the American builders who worked on The Coupe, is coming back to pick up his two piglets. He has bought the gilt (female) and one of the little barrows (castrated male) as company for her. So I am training them to like the Black Mariah that he will borrow…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 1, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  Black Mariah, granny flat, saving country houses, selling piglets, tiny house

• The Kiwi has Landed and so has a new Moggie

  The roof on The Coupe, the most beautiful little apartment being built for The Matriarchs retirement that will be a guest house until she gets old,  (which is not yet) has finally been finished, every gutter, every cap, every little bit of every little everything  is finally on. Rooves are like jigsaws every piece must…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming in the heat, granny flat, Kiwi weather vane, pigs, rescue cat, roof ornament, tiny house

• Gentle mornings

  When I said good morning to you yesterday, this was the dawn I was seeing (above). Worth being a header I think?  After I had quietly fed Charlotte, visited Sheila, fed the chickens and moved the sheep to a new pasture,  and checked the cows, the dogs and I went for our walk around the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  fencing, hereford piglets for sale, leaning cow, old barn, tiny house

• The Fight of the Frisbee

  TonTon and Blue. Dogs playing with a frisbee. Or is it really play? Bugger. Says Ton.  The boy never gives up. The unDaily View. Good morning. I hope you all have some loveliness in store for you today. It is pretty windy out here already this morning (very bendy tree) but thats OK  – the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 14, 2013

  Humour, Photography, Tiny House

  dogs and frisbees, dogs playing with a frisbee, photography, tiny house