Category: Farming

• 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

• How to make dishwasher powder and Daisy: back to normal.

  How to make your own dishwasher powder that works is so easy. Like the laundry powder I was dubious but this stuff is great. It is not a by product of nuclear waste so it will not take off baked on food or clean burnt pots (the best way to clean a burnt pot is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 19, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Life

  cat in wood, challenges, hope, how to make dishwasher powder, peacock, soft kefir cheese, The Duke of Kupa

• Daisy was poorly yesterday

  I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her.  Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing.        …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  chewing the cud, cold, compost, cow not eating, lambs, late spring, sick cow

• A snowy-sun shower!

  Gentlemen Close your Ears! Hush. Sshh,  I will tell you what I hate about winter coldness the most.  You ladies will understand this one. The toilet seat. It Chills me.  I am getting very tired of my freezing porcelain toilet seat. I sit down and squawk at its icy coldness. There you are now.  You…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 15, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cold toilet seat, daily view, loveliness, porcelain toilet, snow, snow shower, sun, weather, wintry mix

• Marauding pigs break into the chook-run

  Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  carhart, farming, homesteading, life, photography, pigs, sheep, winter