Category: homesteading

• No time to loll about, Spring is BUSY!

  We have water and sun.  Soon maybe we will have pasture rising up from the tiny seeds we scattered a week ago. But not yet though. I think the seeds will wait for decent shower of spring rain and some warmth. Mama is not amused that she cannot get her whole body through the lambs…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 4, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  farming, homesteading, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden, watering

• And then the water stopped flowing

  See that small roofline right there on the right of this picture, in the foreground, that is the top of the well, 88 feet down from there dangling on the end of a long long rubber hose is a little submersible pump. Right when I was half way through the washing and the watering and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 3, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  ayrshire cow images, laundry, rain barrels, sheep under tree, water, well water in the country, wells

• Red door

  This is what the kiwi builder was up to. He and John put in the first of the red doors (there are three)… the inside of the door is red too so when it stands open all summer the colour is still present. The Goldilocks windows.. these are the most extravagant of the windows but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 2, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  farm photos, hereford heifer, hereford pig, images, John Deere, milk and honey bath, pea hen, splitter for fire wood, tiny house

• Milk bottle from Missouri

  Look what John and The Matriarch brought me back from Missouri.  The label on the back says Flynn milk. I need to try and date the bottle. The theory is that you let the milk sit overnight, all the cream rises then you can pour the cream off without any milk diluting it. Usually I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  collecting firewood, cream separator bottle, inventions, old bottles for milk, planting trees, separating milk and cream

• Happy Easter – You knew I was going to do this didn’t you!

  The Old Codger chose this years chickens. They are Leghorns. They will grow to be leggy white chooks who lay good white eggs. He thinks they are an excellent old breed for this area. He had leghorns years and years ago. These are in a big tote in the basement with their warm light and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 31, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  celi, chicks, chooks, Easter chickens, Leghorn chickens, Potatoes are Your Best Friend