Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther

• Can pigs get morning sickness?

  Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering.  Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn cat, old barn, pigs, pregnant pig, snow, snow pictures

• We’re Back!!

  Well we are back then. All well on the farmy and I am learning to type on a smaller keyboard. Apparently I am all thumbs! My big old laptop decided it had come to the end of the line. Just at springtime when our cash reserves are low aand with no growth in the fields…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 24, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  computer problems, life, little computer, lucky, notebook, s, sheep, sowing pasture, steer, toshiba

• These things are sent to try us

  Well my laptop has finally spat the dummy (gone black – I shall call the computer man today!) without any warning, of course. Well this happens to everyone. I am surprised they have not named a syndrome for it. ‘Post computer failure stress syndrome’ or something.   So I have had to move over to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 22, 2013

  Farming, Life

• small child mobbed by wild lambies

  Armed with his bottle and a layer of extra anti nibbling clothing our intrepid wee warrior climbed into the pen with the wild untamed lambies.   Poor kid never stood a chance. The quads just LOVE him. And only two are bottle fed remember!                 Barely escaped with…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading

  farming, home, home schooling, homesteading, lamb quads, outdoors, winter

• Siberian Sun

  This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful  siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind.  Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud.  So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated the sun though even if it was straight from Siberia. Every…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bottle fed lambs, chickens, freezing sun, old barn, peacock, roosters, wind