Category: Farming

• Sit Sheila, Sit

  Sit Sheila! Good Girl.  Down Sheila. What a good girl.  Charlotte, Sit. Charlotte. SIT! Thank you Sheila. Good girl, Sheila. But I was talking to Charlotte. Now Charlotte. You have to learn to sit. No, I don’t, she says.  Well, you will be sent to coventry like smelly TonTon. Charlotte is bad, miss c. But…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  pigs, skunk in the barn, training pigs to sit

• Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!

  Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday.  He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be.  So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck.   While I stole a couple of jars of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 3, 2012

  Bees, Humour, Sustainable farming

  harvesting honey, hogs and sheep together, honey, new zealand, pigs and ram

• Peach Ice Cream and Hot Black Tea

  Taken together. One in a little blue hand thrown pottery bowl and one in an antique porcelain blush pink tea cup. Alternate swallows. The perfect complement.  I have this combination every night lately as I load our photographs. One must be very hot to know the extreme cold of the other.  The sweetness raising  the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 2, 2012

  Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  Barn, Evanston farmers market, farm, happy and sad

• Rain, Hail, The Works!

  The black clouds I noticed when I started to carry buckets of water to the barn in preparation for the milking yesterday morning, were not as frightening as the  continual thunder. It sounded like a monster train running over a bump in the  track not too far away. The thunder rolled again and again for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 1, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  camera, drought, midwest, Nikon D70, rain on hay

• Country Air Conditioning

  I have begun to feed hay out to the animals now. There is a little feed left in the fields but they are grazing very low to the ground now. And my fields are very young. There are lots of dried off tops which I have left to shade whatever legume may struggle through from…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 31, 2012

  Flower Garden, Life, Sustainable farming

  alfalfa hay, feeding out hay, hot and dry, water