Category: Farming

• HEAT and FIRE

  

  Yesterday a man who I will not name because he is a local mowed the ditches ghen set fire to them then left the area. Of course it roared up in the wind and shot out in all directions burning up dry, dry grass and if John had not made a fire break at our…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 30, 2018

  Farming, Photography

  anger, cows, farmanimals, fires, heat, hot, pigs, weather

• HEAT STROKE

  

  Lucy the newborn Angus calf  went down with heatstroke yesterday evening and I had to go in and drag her out through the little milking calf door without her mother killing me. If I had left her in there she would have died on the spot.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 29, 2018

  Farming, Life, Photography

  country, farming, heat, heatstroke in calves, new calf

• THE WHITE LINE

  

  The other day I opened Poppy’s electric fence gate so she could come out and visit with Sheila but she refuses to cross where the electric fence WAS. I bring her food over and she paces back and forth in front of the memory of the white electric line never crossing, never taking one step…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 26, 2018

  airbnb, Farming, Photography

  farmanimals, farming, fields, highs, weather

• TRIAGE VS PRIORITIES

  That is a rather grand title for such an ordinary post. But for me: Triage means dealing with the task that has a better chance of getting finished and priorities means putting the most important to the top of the list. Not the same thing at all. And why I would wake up to find…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 21, 2018

  cows, Farming, Photography

  Barn, cows, ducks, farming, priorities, triage, weather

• UNDER COVER

  

  After being rained on the day we were to bale and then all the next night, yesterday evening we finally got the hay baled and under cover. About one hundred bales are pretty good – a little wetter than they should be …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 20, 2018

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farming, haymaking, weather