Category: Farming

• Tentative First Steps

  Our wee fella, the tiniest of the little orphans, bless his little heart, rose up yesterday afternoon and very, very slowly –  took himself for a tiny walk.  He is trying to suck on the bottle now. I am calling this an improvement. He might make it yet. We have gone FIVE whole days without…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 12, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  breeding pigs, hand rearing kittens, night sky, pigs on grass, stars

• Oops, she’s done it again! Boo too. Boo is as much to blame!

  Yesterday  I went to The Breeders farm to collect my milk.  (The Breeder bred Daisy and is my mentor in all things Cow). She was flat out. Jogging across her quad to say Hullo. Huge tractors and trailers parked  by the bins. The flat sun was shining and they were harvesting and there is no…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 9, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  abandoned kittens, dog adopts kittens, how to raise kittens, kittens and dog

• The View from the Coupe and the View from the Loft

  Dinner is served every night at this table in the Coupe. We have come in from the covered verandah, it is a mite chilly in the evenings now. Our view is all corn. The  broiler chickens are nearing the end of their time here. I am pleased to report that they have grown slowly and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  chicken in ark, dog, drying corn, loft with a view

• Making soap for the first time

  Soap is not hard to make as long as you get yourself very organised before you begin. It only takes a couple of hours to make a decent batch of soap.  I used  lye, lard, coconut oil and water, then added lavender for fragrance. After reading all the sites you sent me to, this weekend I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 7, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  how to make soap, lye, making soap from lard, soap making, water and lard equals soap

• How a dog breaks the shell of an egg

  Daisy is  a tall cow.  Every day Boo gets an egg straight from the chook house.  He will throw it up into the air so it will break when it falls and I tried to get this shot. Often it takes three or four throws. But my attention wandered for an instant and he was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 5, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cows and dogs, dogs, farming, pig asleep in straw, sunsets