Category: Sustainable farming

• The Farmy is back online. There have been a few changes.

  Camera and the Connection have returned.  So we have images and we have the internet back to its usual comforting crawl. And oh I missed you so.  It was very strange not to be constructing sentences in my head all day and collecting shots for you.  The Duke of Kupa says welcome back. All is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 9, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, farm animals, feeling the rain coming, internet problems, raising pork, sheep

• Longing for evening

  Yesterday was just a little day.  A nice peaceful Sunday. Milking the cow while TonTon watched from his usual  place.  Telling Sheila she knows that John does not like her to play in the traffic and get back in the barn right now it is time for your dinner. Watching the chickens drink the last…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 6, 2012

  Humour, Sustainable farming

  bed time, border collie, chickens drink milk, grapes, sheila the pig

• Make Sun then the Hay Shines

  The last of the alfalfa hay is in.  The hay field was raked into windrows yesterday morning.  Then the radar began to threaten rain. Radars can be very threatening. And rain is only a threat when the hay is laying all defenseless and golden on the ground. Otherwise I would say that the radar was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 5, 2012

  Sustainable farming

  making hay

• 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