Category: Farming

• Chooks are very strict Babysitters

  This is a scene I happen upon quite often lately. The chooks put the kittens down for their afternoon nap then slowly surround them.  Babysitting. These two sister chickens are always the closest to the kittens. You may remember them from the spring when they were job sharing one small chick, who they eventually lost.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, farm photography, hereford pigs, milking cow, Once a Day Milking, photography, pigs

• Onion Jam and Carrot Cake

  I spent some time with my mother’s recipe book yesterday,  which looks suspicously like my own. I thought I might try her custard recipe,  (eggs you see!) but I understand now why she always ended up making it from the Edmonds Instant Custard packet. I cannot work out her recipe for Elaine’s custard either.  I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2013

  Farming, Photography, Recipes

  carrot cake, old barn, onion jam, peacock and cat, The Daily View

• Move along, Move along, Nothing to see Here.

  I decided not to post a page this morning. Then after the milking and after I had started a new cheese, my daughter called from hot, hot Melbourne and said .. I am waiting. I have been checking and checking. Where is todays post? I want to read it before I go out. What time is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 6, 2013

  Farming

  Australia bush fires, cold, kangaroos, new zealand, snow

• Look at my beautiful Shush Sisters

  Though they spend most of their time in their sheltered winter quarters, if the weather is nice, The Shush Sisters still come out each day for a walk. Sheila has dressed up for her outing and put a bow tie on her tail!!  No,  it is TonTon behind her.  Though Ton appears to be wearing…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2013

  Farming, Photography

  farming, hereford pigs, micro farming, sheep

• A Little Dr Seuss Spot – Of Sun and the Origins of an Egg

  Someone laid an egg yesterday.  Was it you? Maybe not.  Certainly was not you and I know it was not me.  And we know for sure that Queenie, waiting patiently under leaden skies for a little sun, did not lay an egg.  Out of the gray a roving spotlight of sun shot through and we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 4, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  Ayrshire, calf, cow, farm eggs, hereford, sun, sunspots