Category: homesteading

• A snowy-sun shower!

  Gentlemen Close your Ears! Hush. Sshh,  I will tell you what I hate about winter coldness the most.  You ladies will understand this one. The toilet seat. It Chills me.  I am getting very tired of my freezing porcelain toilet seat. I sit down and squawk at its icy coldness. There you are now.  You…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 15, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cold toilet seat, daily view, loveliness, porcelain toilet, snow, snow shower, sun, weather, wintry mix

• Marauding pigs break into the chook-run

  Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  carhart, farming, homesteading, life, photography, pigs, sheep, winter

• The Mucky Murk or is it The Murky Muck

  Yesterday was a study in getting stuck in the mud. I squelched my way through fields with my arms out like wings trying to keep my balance. The ground underneath is still frozen so in some areas the melting soil is like a slurry on top of ice, in others it is deep cold muck…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animal photography, border collie, cows, farming, homesteading, mud, mud on the farm, sheep

• Lambs go out and play in the snow

  I began the big clean in the barn yesterday. Working our way through each pen … … forking out all the old hay out to the compost piles.. … scraping and cleaning the concrete floors … c .. … …everything get sprinkled with diatomaceous earth to kill any bugs, then lime to dry it out…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 10, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cleaning the barn, farming, old barns, quad lambs, Suffolk sheep and quads

• The Chopping Block got the Chop

  I would have taken a shot of the chopping block but it was chopped and in the fire before I knew it, last night. So, all this years firewood is gone. From now on we will have chilly starts. And early to bed evenings.  I don’t mind I spend most of the day outside anyway.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 9, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, farm photography, nature