Category: homesteading

• Your voice echoes when there is snow in the clouds

  Yesterday it snowed again. But it was a gentle sweet silent snow that did not last too long. But the clouds sat heavy. Heavy clouds breathing light snow. Like kind gods. A benevolent uncle kind of snow. I set about trapping and catching the frostbitten chickens who had run off to the barn before the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat playing with dog, chickens roosters, cows, dog playing with cat, farming in the deep cold, frostbite on chickens combs, homesteading, old barn, rooster, snow in the country, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Frostbite on Barn Chickens

  Still cold. Do you see Daisy’s breath? First  something pretty: The Old Codger has given me his snow shoes .. aren’t they wonderful. When I walk the dogs across the snow in the morning I shall be wearing these .  I look forward to our morning walk. And now for something not so pretty. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire cow, Barn, celi, chickens with frostbite, cows, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, frostbite on chickens, The kitchen’s garden, winter farming

• How to make dog biscuits for pigs

  “Well!” I hear you say! “Treats for Pigs?”. But every good pig deserves a treat – Especially Our Sheila who survived the Big Chill with A Plomb and the easiest way to train a pig is with treats. Sad but True. I am the same. Here is the recipe: 2 cups wholemeal flour 1 cup oatmeal…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cold, dog treats, farming in the cold, pig treats, pigs, snow

• Sundogs – like bookends for a frozen day.

  Yesterday was officially freezing.  Real freezing cold. Not that fake cold when your dressing gown is in the dryer and you have to run to the toilet in your nightie and the toilet seat is cold and you shiver and say God that is cold. No, this was real cold. Razer cold that shaves at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, celi, chickens, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, sun dogs, sundogs, sunrise, sunset, The kitchen’s garden

• The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.

  Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, dogs in snow, farming in freezing temperatures, how to keep a pig warm, ice, pigs in snow, snow