Category: Humour

• Whose tracks are these?

  This is not a rhetorical question. Are these from a rabbit?  Have to be a rabbit. Our snow hung around for most of the day but it was one of those calm, warmish cold beautiful days that slowly melted into the afternoon. Here is the Bobby Blanc. Now I bet you wish you could do…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Humour, Life

  funny animals, funny farm animals, granny flat, looking after the elderly, peacocks tail feathers, tracks in the snow

• Second-hand Barbie made me do it!

  It was way too cold to take children outside yesterday. We need to invent a new weather term for when the wind has nasty hard crystals of snow in it. Not snow that gathers, or drops prettily, just white driving snow that whips through on its way to somewhere else, like a transient doggard mean-spirited…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2013

  Humour, Life

  barbie, children, driving snow, homeschooling

• The swine herd gets inexplicably demoted

  My photos started out well yesterday. I had this big plan for colour and light. I made a classy shot of the air hose from the pump drying out by the fire. When cold (air) hits heat (steam from hot milk) we get condensation in the lines.  Which results in water in the pump (bad).…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 24, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  air hose, Artificial Insemination of pigs, giving blood, tiny house, Tiny Houses

• Frigid Sunshine

  By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C).  I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  chickens, chooks, cold, cow, diatomaceous earth, dogs, farming in the cold, giving blood, hens, sheep

• Feeling bloody.

  My Mother used to say that. ‘I am feeling bloody.’ In other words do NOT Bother me with mundanity today – you might just lose your curly little head. Yesterday I wandered about the farmy in the cold,  just feeling bloody.  Everything just looked cold and grey.  Camera house followed suit.  Feeling bloody is compounded…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 21, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life

  animals in the cold, bad mood, bloody mood, gloves, layers, lost gloves