Tag: writing

• 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

• Writing and farming below freezing

  Yesterday was colder than ever and the wind was blowing fiercely scoring the skin off my face and the water out of my own eyes. So cold that if you are doing the dishes and your hands are a little wet, and you pop outside for a piece of wood for the stove and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, homesteading, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• The Fantastic Fellowship of Books and Help-Meets.

  While I  had help on the farmy. Feeding out.  Climbing up and down the ladder for me. Throwing in straw for the piggies.  Sheila was thrilled and slightly dismayed as she had to remake her bed. Making me lunch and trimming naughty Marmalade’s fingernails. You were all in the Lounge of Comments creating a magnificent…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 28, 2013

  Humour, Life, Photography

  Books, farm animals, reading list, writing

• The first Snow of the Winter

  I was most definitely not ready for having an entire day below freezing in November.   Though I just checked the blog post for this date exactly a year ago and it was only marginally warmer.  So why am I surprised. Though no snow then. This is Boos first time seeing snow and as predicted…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2013

  homesteading, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  animals in the snow, autumn in the snow, farming, Nanowrimo, snow, writing

• nanowrimo without the capitals

  Last year I signed up for nanowrimo. And  finished in 21 days. It is an interesting concept. Basically it is a dare. You dare yourself to write 50,000 words towards a novel, hopefully including a beginning a middle and an end  – in one month. The month of November. No-one but me reads it. No-one…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 12, 2013

  homesteading, nanowrimo, Writing

  farming, Nanowrimo, writing