Category: Farming

• One more tiny story for mw&g – T on a bike

  This is the last T story for a wee bit as the grapes are beginning to turn, and the animals need some extra attention with my grass going so much slower. It is still late summer ( I am quite determined about that) and that means harvest time in the pumpkin patch, prep time in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 21, 2011

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  beach, bikes, garlic beds, learning to ride a bike, old bikes, pumpkin patch, sand, sea

• in a frogs eye

  The Frog Garden. This spring John built a new garden. He had an interesting concept. He found this in a magazine but we lost the magazine so if someone reading was the writer of this please get in touch and I will give credit where credit is due as this is a great little garden.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 11, 2011

  Farming, Photography

  boardwalk, eggplants, frog, frog garden, frogs eye, images, micro water garden, peppers

• Farm days

  This morning early, I took the dogs for a walk (the two cats who come along think they are taking us for a walk) and checked the fences. In the barn, I fed Daisy( dairy cow, who I really hope is pregnant) some of the new grass hay, she looked at  me scathingly and said…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 8, 2011

  Bees, Farm Animals, Farming, Living the life, Photography

  alfalfa hay, border collie, chickens, chooks, cows, grass hay, Rhode Island Reds, sheep

• Daisy lost in the cornfield and grandma’s rissole recipe,

  So the pasture is beginning to wane a bit. Not as much grass. At this time of year we put a harness on Daisy, the milk cow to be, and take her on a dog leash into the wild long grass.  I am not kidding, I wander along (she will not be hurried)  leading this…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2011

  Farm Animals, Farming, Life, Living the life, Meals, Photography, Recipes

  Ayrshire cow, cold meat, cornfield, cow, egg, onion, potato, recipe, rissoles