Category: Farming

• The Well Worn Path …

  … from the house to the barn. White cat prefers the concrete footpath. Can you see how he has actual cat fur on his paws, in the winter he walks about on four thick little cushions of fur.  He is an Himalayan cat. He and the sheep are the only ones on the farm who…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 28, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  cats in the cold, Himalayan cat, Kindle, reading

• The Three Rooskerteers

  Sorry.. had to say it. Titles!  Actually I did  a double (or is it triple) take when i saw this shot. I actually thought I only had two roosters who looked exactly the same – Son of Neanderthal Man, and the Son of The Son of Neanderthal Man.  Neanderthal Man had the feathers on his…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 27, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  carhart jacket, cows, milking time, pig talk, roosters

• Either stalactites or stalagmites – one or the other

  I know one goes up and one goes down but whichever ones these are, they are an excellent visual example of it being too bloody cold – I will tell you that.  Ghastly, darlinks! The swimming pool has ice swimming in it.  These shots were taken in the afternoon by the way. All day the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 25, 2012

  Farming, Life, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine

  After you’ve gone, farm cold, jeffrey lent, Nanowrimo, reading, reading as a writer, writing

• Why isn’t the list getting any Shorter?

  Yesterday I reordered the order, and all the animals went in and out of the barn with ease and no escapes. So now the pens are all sorted out for the period that I am away. It is very lucky that pigs do not have digits or at the very least Daisy’s height. They would…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 24, 2012

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  dawn, Made in America, Made in china, old barn, pig face, sheep, Shopping, the old barn

• Storm Drill

  Yesterday after Thanksgiving dinner I rallied the troops and we went out to the barn to practice a storm drill. When a storm comes in,  often we do not have a lot of time to get all the animals into the barn.  And depending on where they are outside and where their designated pens are inside,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 23, 2012

  Farming, Life

  Barn, old barns, preparing to leave the farm, storms