Category: homesteading

• small child mobbed by wild lambies

  Armed with his bottle and a layer of extra anti nibbling clothing our intrepid wee warrior climbed into the pen with the wild untamed lambies.   Poor kid never stood a chance. The quads just LOVE him. And only two are bottle fed remember!                 Barely escaped with…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading

  farming, home, home schooling, homesteading, lamb quads, outdoors, winter

• Siberian Sun

  This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful  siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind.  Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud.  So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated the sun though even if it was straight from Siberia. Every…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bottle fed lambs, chickens, freezing sun, old barn, peacock, roosters, wind

• How to make dishwasher powder and Daisy: back to normal.

  How to make your own dishwasher powder that works is so easy. Like the laundry powder I was dubious but this stuff is great. It is not a by product of nuclear waste so it will not take off baked on food or clean burnt pots (the best way to clean a burnt pot is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 19, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Life

  cat in wood, challenges, hope, how to make dishwasher powder, peacock, soft kefir cheese, The Duke of Kupa

• Daisy was poorly yesterday

  I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her.  Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing.        …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  chewing the cud, cold, compost, cow not eating, lambs, late spring, sick cow

• This was not yesterday

  Yesterday I went back through some of our old shots so that I could compile an extra page that new people can refer to if they need to identify one of the animals or birds. It sits up there, (look up) right next to About. It is  The Cast of Characters Page. Do you see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 17, 2013

  Bees, Farm Animals, homesteading, Photography

  cows, farm animals, preparing fields for grass seed, summer, the cast page, The kitchen’s garden, the kitchens garden farmy