Category: homesteading

• And so it begins…

  Playtime. The babies are playing.. The unDaily View. Why is it that the lawn is growing faster than the fields? I shall have to get the mower going soon. Today will be another blustery rainy day which is good for the fields but not so good for the roofers. Good morning. The homeschooling children and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 17, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, dogs playing

• Piggie heaven

  Sheila was so excited to be out on a walk to her new pen that she literally ran rings around Charlotte and I as we slowly walked up the drive and through the gates and across the fields to the new Pig Palace. Eating green grass, and laying in the dirt is piggie heaven. Charlotte…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 16, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  asparagus beds, daffodils, hereford pigs, pigs on grass, yellow forsythia

• Is there a song that goes: Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun?

  I think there is. I was humming it all day long yesterday. It was bendy tree windy but we had piles of sun. Sun-Sun Sun-Sun. I could not find my phone for a while – apparently someone had been going through my jacket pockets! Puppys nowadays will only settle for the very latest technology. Everyone…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 15, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  australian cattle dog, Blue Heeler pup, cow, farming, hereford pig sleeping, homesteading, milking cow, peacocks and hens, puppy with iphone, sheep on grass, The kitchen’s garden

• Put on your jacket, Mum is cold.

  Do you remember that saying? Something like ‘jackets are things for kids to wear when their mothers are cold’. Well when The Matriarch came out to the farm yesterday (and it was awfully cold yesterday – snow flurries even), she saw that The Big Dog’s coat had been removed last week  when we all thought…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Vegetable Gardens

  garlic, jackets for dogs, lettuce, planting tomatoes, spring rains, still cold, tomato covers

• TonTon remains stoic

  Ton has been the best behaved dog in the history of dogdom since Blue was unexpectedly foisted upon him.  He is not thrilled especially when Blue has picked his tail up in his mouth and chewed on it. He is stoic but unsmiling. On more that one occasion and too often for it to be…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 12, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, celi, dog with new pup, pig scratching, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden