Category: Farming

• Hiding Out from the Blizzard in The Barn

  It is 14F (–10C) this morning. Snow on the ground. Yesterday we were locked inside  with a blizzard hurling itself around outside. It was about 18F all day.  Snow flew in swirls through the fields past the buildings and straight out across the plains.  It seemed very certain of its path that  snow.  We were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire heifer, Barn, cows, hereford calf, interiors, midwest, snow

• The Original Mumma Munch Recipe

  What do you mean you can’t read that! This is the recipe my mother wrote into my recipe book years ago, before she died.  Well, obviously Before she died, I mean, if she had written it After  she had died this would be a very different story!! Anyway, this was before cell phones and computers…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2012

  Recipes, Sustainable farming

  healthy, Home Made granola bars, Muesli Bars, Mumma Munch

• Foolishly depending on a Frost and seeking the Red of a Barn.

  You see we have had such lovely crunchy frosts the last few days and I decided last night, in all my wisdom, that this morning I would get out the macro and slither across the freezing ground and shoot through the frosted garden into the glow of a rising sun. Oh what heavenly shots  of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2012

  Farming

  Red Barns

• “You’ve strangled me?” I said to the nice man, moving Moaning Mia out of the way with my hip.

  “Throttled. Yes Ma’am.”  “So.. TonTon I cannot play with your ball from in here! Think about what you are doing! Mia stop that, stop jumping! Wait.” I said to the little man.  “Mia,  Get OUT of the chook house. I have got to fix this door. Stop that, this is a phone not a toy.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  bees, cow, farm animals, internet, sheep, winter

• When The Cat Won’t Play: on the Farmy

  The whole farmy has turned camera shy all of a sudden.  Yesterday afternoon TonTon and I took the camera on our rounds,  but the sun fell in behind massive clouds, the light dropped and no-one would co-operate.    TonTon hoped to see a decent Play Cat-Fight , but even Thing Two was totally lacking in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Cat fight, Frost on the windows, Kitty Play