Category: homesteading

• The Winter Weather of Extreme Dreariness

  Ice was clinging to the trees as I went out to milk yesterday morning. Not a lot though and only a little snow.  No-one minded.  There was just enough ice in the trees to fill the air with the noise of … cracking and sliding and slipping as the ice melted slightly and released its grip…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cows in snow, ice and snow, kefir grains, lambs, ram in snow, raw milk, the winter of dreariness

• The Goldilocks Windows

  Designing and building a tiny self contained house disguised as a wing, with a chicken coop as its influence,  has been both a challenge and a delight.  Of course I am not doing the actual building. I was speaking metaphorically. The Kiwi Builder is doing all the building with a sure input to the structural…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 22, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Tiny House

  Barn, building a tiny house, hammer, home shcooling, ice storm, milk for lambs, peacock images, windows

• The difficult answer

  What the young people saw yesterday…  “Often. A little bit often”The stories are just as important as the spelling. For the latter; after the children have written their farmy stories (they have a special book) we collect the spelling words, correct them and add them to our collected words list (individual home made dictionaries).  When…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 21, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  farming, homesteading, lambs, peacocks, pigs, pigs and cats, truth for children

• Lambs: A Photographic Essay

  Yesterday had horrible weather.   The wind was so strong and so cold yesterday that a few times I walked backwards from the house to the barn rather than have my face blown off. But thats OK, the Kiwi builder was on the other side of the house so he did not see. But the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  bearing the cold, black and white, handwarmers, lambs, newborn lambs, photography

• Mama has a surprise for you: FOUR LIVE LAMBS!

  You are going to love this.  The photos are terrible.  They were taken last night and Mama will not tolerate the flash. These snapshots, taken within the hour of their birth, under the barn light,  show you really little.  Except that there are four little lambs in fleecy coats milling about. That they had all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 19, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  ewe and quads, Mama and her lambs, new lambs, quads, winter