Category: homesteading

• It looks like we lost a hive to the cold

  Or at the very least a lot of bees from one hive. The night they were installed it got very cold.. and I suppose they did not get huddled together close enough in time.  The other hive seems fine though, noisy and active. In fact late yesterday afternoon there seemed to be activity in both…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 22, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading, Photography

  asparagus, cold weather and the bees, dairy cow on grass, dog and pup

• Well beehaved bees

  The bees have arrived and not only did they survive their travels with very few casualties, but they even tucked themselves up into their own new homes without terribly much bother. You see, yesterday morning early I hurt my back. Not badly but enough to disable my strength and slow my stride to a creep.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 21, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading

  bees, installing a package of bees, magnolia bud, milking a cow, queen bees

• Waiting on the bees

  Today I hope. I have placed a red rug underneath the hives so that the weeds don’t grow through but now that I think abut it maybe I should turn that upside down. Can bees see red? I can’t remember. I shall look it up and fix that before I load the bees in. Yesterday…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 20, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading

  bee hives, bug hugs, dairy cow, little farm, new bees, old barn, rain clouds

• The drought is officially over: miss c said

  When the basement floods the drought is over. And in this region today there are lots of flooded basements, and flooded fields and minds flooded with possibilities now that it looks like we may have some water around for the summer. The ducks will be floating in the fields soon … a sight that always…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  flooded fields, flooding in the basement, have a lovely day, homesteading, newborn lambs

• Crossing the line… they come bearing gifts

  They do come bearing gifts. A roof.  A roof over our heads is most definitely a gift. A man on his little machine, that was attached to the back of his semi trailer when he drove straight past the road closed sign,  pottered down the drive carrying the beautiful corrugated iron roof that will keep…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  corrugated iron roof, crossing the line, pregnant pigs need exercise, water in the basement