Category: homesteading

• Mia – Not good I am afraid

  Mia has miscarried all her lambs. This is sad for everyone. When I was a young Mum raising a family alone in New Zealand (we were thin but happy), before I started teaching, I used to pick up odds and sods of jobs here and there. One of them was picking apples while the kids…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 2, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Writing

  dealing with failure, dealing with grief, ewe miscarrying, miscarried lambs

• “But, I’m a GIRL! Miss C”

  All along this wee lamb has been So Noisy. Now I know why. I changed their coats yesterday, Mama hates when I do this, she will BAA straight into my face when I put smelly clean clothes on them but the hand fed ones had grown out of their first coats and have to keep clean…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 1, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animals, cats, cow, farm, lamb, miss c, photography, pigs, The Coupe, The tiny House

• A Ton of Hay and Freezing Rain

  These beautifully looked after cows shared their hay with us.. They are the most contented bunch of dairy  cows I have ever met.  And with a huge thank you and sigh of relief we are once more in good shape as far as feed goes.  Everyone is pleased, most especially The  Murphy’s who are already…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  icy rain, moving fast, pigs, rooster crowing

• Charlotte came home and she is in a right mood!

  The day was toddling along like it does.  The new lambs saw their first sun. Though it was still a wee bit chilly. Look at this cheeky baby, lambs just hit the ground running. Whereas kittens hit the ground sleeping.  Then we received the call that Charlotte had completed.. um.. relations with the boar (witnessed…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 25, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  charlotte, farrrowing crates, lambs in coats, pig gestation period, pigs and boars, sheep, swine herd, the alternative to farrowing crates

• How to make a lambs coat and the last view from the coupe for a while.

  This is the view out to the East from the tiny house. Our winter sunrise view. However the Kiwi Builder has wrapped it up like fish and chips in the building paper that is emblazoned with the name of a certain big box building store that one buys such things at.  And it has lost…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  alfalfa hay, how to make a lambs coat, peacock feathers, sunny day, the view from the windows, three sheep