Category: Farming

• Cold wind blowing

  .A cold day is fine. Or should I say a fine cold day is fine. But a cold day,  though not too cold with a high of 29F (-1C),  but with low slate gray clouds and a relentless wind becomes uncomfortable. Yesterday it  snowed on and off and blew without enthusiasm.  So we worked in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 30, 2012

  Farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows, hereford heifer, mastitis, milking cows, sheep

• Shuffling the cards of cows.

  On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow.  Just a little.  Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well.  When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths  associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 29, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, chickens, cows, eggs, feed, hay

• Getting Re-Antiquated

  I know that  heading (above) makes no sense but I have a challenge that once I have written my title  I must keep it. Sometimes the weirdest phrases and re-spellings get  stuck in  my head.  I am very grateful that you are all the kind of kind people who bear with the slight eccentricities that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 28, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  compost, farming, hay, hereford pigs, house cow, milking, mucking out, peacock nests, peacocks, straw, sustainable farming, wine

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

  And here we are back on the farmy. After an uneventful and long, long  couple of flights to Chicago from Auckland, I was whisked away from the madding crowds of  airport people, with all its suspicion and controlled chaos and driven back to the howling prairies. The wind has been blowing out of the North…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography, Travel

  Barn, cows, farm life, Illinois, pigs, sheep

• My Sister has a Farmy

  Yesterday I said my last gulping goodbye when Senior Son dropped me off at the airport, with my lightened luggage, to collect my little zip zip rental car.  Wellington is very easy to drive out of especially from the airport and even in the misty rain and low cloud.  My little zip zip car and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 18, 2012

  Farming, Photography, Travel

  hawkes bay, hawkes bay hills, new zealand, travelling