Category: Farming

• Hiding from the Chill

  Not one furry, or feathered, animal, or bird, moved from the barn until late in the morning yesterday, except maybe to run quickly outside to the loo but that would only be the piggies. The rest are not as particular with their ablutions. So after the milking (the milk production has levelled out at 15…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  cute kittens, guinea fowl, images, Nanowrimo, old barn, peacock, the cold, The Duke of Kupa, The kitchen’s garden

• Blown Away

  In a very noisy way. A windy way. When I am outside in a wind like this TonTon cannot hear me call him. The peacocks do not even bother coming out. It is fiercely loud. Yesterday the wind roared all day. Last night it raced past the house screeching and trying out every crack, and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 12, 2012

  Farming, Photography

  a cow eats this much hay a day, gales, old barn, wind, winter coming

• Daisy’s Naughty Face

  Daisy is not always nice. But she is slowly increasing her milk production again.  Ever so slowly. She was smelling sweeter yesterday too.  I personally think she has been a little off colour. She has had other symptoms indicating a heath struggle. But she is improving. It may be that because they are eating the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 11, 2012

  Farming, Humour, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cows, Nanowrimo, sheep, The Daily View, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Charlotte makes a run for it – ungrateful pig.

  So yesterday on my rounds I took the piggies out into pats paddock to have a munch on the grass. They love good long grass and there was a little out there. Then with no warning, Charlotte, aka Miss Naughty, went for a walk outside the fences.  I had opened the gate to fix the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 9, 2012

  Farming, Life, Stories

  cat, hereford cow, hereford hogs, pigs, runaway pigs, sheeps eye, the, The Duke of Kupa

• It was not the 6th…

  When I loaded all these shots I wrote the 6th of November as their label.  But it was not the 6th.  It was the 7th and another dreary day. Today will be better. Look at this fat Charlotte.  Standing solidly on all four feet like a good girl. Even if she has broken into the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 8, 2012

  Farming, Life, nanowrimo, Writing

  chickens, chooks, dog under blanket, hereford pig, lovely day, overcast, peacocks, sheep, The Daily View, wool, Yesterdays Temperatures