Category: homesteading

• How to tell when your ewe is due.

  Yesterday I received this wonderful tip from one of the wonderful Fellowship of the Farmy. r says: January 25, 2014 at 5:03 am (Edit) I am throwing my two cents worth of lambing prediction for your consideration. I go by the udder size to predict the number of weeks or days until lambing. My sheep hate my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 26, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, cow, cows, farming, how to tell if your ewe is ready to lamb, seed catalogues, snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Rocking the Barn

  Not as in rock ‘n roll either. Just a’rockin’. The frozen winds were so strong yesterday that the barn was heaving in and out, like a giant loudly asthmatic bellows. Often I anchor the camera by leaning it on the barn wall or a post but that was hopeless yesterday as the whole barn was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, farming, farming in the cold, old barn, snow, winds

• Thank you Post Mistress: How to make cat treats.

  They say it takes a village to raise a child – it seems it takes a postal route to raise a kitten.  This was delivered to my mail box yesterday.  Or it may have been the day before yesterday. Today Our John and I were debating whether it was Wednesday or Thursday.  Ah well I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 24, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animals, chickens, how to make cat treats

• Sticky Face.

  I thought I would be clever and upended the somewhat empty frozen gallon flagon of molasses, jammed it into Daisy’s feeder so it dripped into her hay and let them fool around with it for the day. OOPS! Then leaving Queenie to clean up the last of it Daisy went outside to bury her head…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cow, farm life, farming in the cold, peahen, sheep, very cold

• The bees are alive, and beating the cold back with a stick.

  I know that the cold (we are below freezing for a while now: 3F (-17C) this morning) might try and make us feel bleak.  Pulling at the loose threads of our cardi’s trying to unravel us.  Butting heads with our warm outlooks. But look what we can do in the cold. Pasture-raised chicken on the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bee hives in winter, beer, bees, cabbage, cold, humour, pasture raised chicken, snow, sunset