Category: Farming

• My Wind Socks.

  It was windy yesterday. Bendy tree windy.  Trouble standing up windy. 40 mph (65 kph) It was like living on a ridge in Wellington! You guys in Chicago must have had a wild day. After I took this shot I struggled back inside so Camera House could rest in safety then  came back out and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  barn renovations, celi, chicks, laundry on clothesline in wind, statistics, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, tiny house, windy day

• Trouble in The Gardens.

  Don’t you hate it when the internet is broke? Sorry about yesterday. We are right on the very steep edges of a black hole of nefarious internet coverage. Evidently there was a man up the only tower that can reach us. I guess he was reading the book because it took him two days to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 6, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading

  celi, gardens, good morning, Pania and Tui, pea hen, peacock, splitting firewood, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden

• No time to loll about, Spring is BUSY!

  We have water and sun.  Soon maybe we will have pasture rising up from the tiny seeds we scattered a week ago. But not yet though. I think the seeds will wait for decent shower of spring rain and some warmth. Mama is not amused that she cannot get her whole body through the lambs…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 4, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  farming, homesteading, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, watering

• And then the water stopped flowing

  See that small roofline right there on the right of this picture, in the foreground, that is the top of the well, 88 feet down from there dangling on the end of a long long rubber hose is a little submersible pump. Right when I was half way through the washing and the watering and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 3, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  ayrshire cow images, laundry, rain barrels, sheep under tree, water, well water in the country, wells

• Red door

  This is what the kiwi builder was up to. He and John put in the first of the red doors (there are three)… the inside of the door is red too so when it stands open all summer the colour is still present. The Goldilocks windows.. these are the most extravagant of the windows but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 2, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  farm photos, hereford heifer, hereford pig, images, John Deere, milk and honey bath, pea hen, splitter for fire wood, tiny house