Category: homesteading

• So far so good

  It was minus -10C (-23F)  when I went out to start the chores yesterday morning.  And the animals were handling it well. Double rations and lots of extra bedding seems to be working so far.  By lunchtime we  were above zero. Which was nice. Do you remember me saying the other day that getting up…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  crampons for boots, horses in the snpw, old farms, snow on the prairie, winter, winter pictures

• How wonderful ..

  The first day of 2014. I have a good feeling. The sun rose white and cold into the blue sky on the last day of 2013. There was even a little snow. I still love snow.   I hope I don’t jinx it but things have been quietly, quiet and deeply, blissfully uneventful around here…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming in the snow, ice in the trees, sunrise, sunset

• My Monsters and I go for a Walk and Wonder about Stuff

  The sun is so low that when it does pop out through a crack in the solid grey that is our sky, all our shadows make us look like monsters. Screen left is Boo and screen right is Sheila. Off on our walk. Everyone wants to check out the compost heap on the way. Off…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 31, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  can I walk my pig, champagne bucket, chickens, funny stuff, humour, New Years Eve, peahens, pigs nd walks

• Making soap and body lotion on a cold day

  There is lot of Maths in making soap. Mathematics has never been my strong point. Luckily there are sites to calculate these things. But you still need to know whats what. Each oil has a different make up and use.  My children and I have very dry skin so I am working on designing a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 30, 2013

  homesteading, Photography

  Dry Skin body Lotion bar, making lotion bars, making soap

• Sheila goes walkies down by the creek

  Sheila the big pig is getting a bit too big. Fat I think.  So Ton and I took her for a little walk. After she had managed to get past the new compost heap, we had a nice wee trot around the back. Going back in and out of the Logan’s gate often so she…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 29, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  cat and dog images, hereford pigs, raising pigs, taking pigs for a walk