Category: Life

• Sheila Snores

  

  Did you know that? She is a great old snorer. Though you will only hear the snoring if you creep very, very quietly into the barn with ears at the ready. Pigs have incredibly good hearing.  And the moment they hear a sound out of the ordinary they jump sideways then freeze and listen. This is why…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farm animal photography, old barns, pigs snore, roosters in the barn, sheila, sleeping pigs, snow on the farm, thekitchensgarden

• No more crying!!

  

  Let’s look at happy stuff instead.  Thank you for yesterdays comments – you are a deep and wondrous group of people. You are The Fellowship.  I could not do it without you. Cold but happy. A black and white pig after eating tomato soup for lunch. BooBoo jumps into the pigs corridor. Gotcha, says Poppy.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2015

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  kunekune, pigs and dogs, pigs in snow, snow

• Paying it Forward

  

  When my fourth son was eleven he was a hellion. I was a solo Mum by then, working all the time – working. One day he was seen skateboarding down the hill from our house at speed, in the middle of the road, wearing my big black coat and carrying a petrol can –  while…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  angry youth, bullying, grief, inspirational posts, saying yes, snow, survival, your people and farms

• Sourdough and Snow

  

  My friend Celia, from Fig Lime and Cordial, sent me a sourdough starter from Australia a while ago that has been languishing in the belly of the fridge until I ceased my globe trotting.. (not quite ceased but never mind). Yesterday, stuck inside with snowstorm outside, I started the starter up.  Her name is Priscilla  and Celia has asked all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 2, 2015

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  how to make a simple sourdough loaf, incubator, snow on the prairies, sourdough culture

• The D –

  

  I am up very early. I awoke at 2.30 anD lay in beD for a while thinking all those awful thoughts one thinks when you cannot sleep. AnD I am a granD sleeper, just sometimes after a trip away my sleeping pattern interrupts. It is snowing steaDily outsiDe. Huge fluffy flakes. I knew it was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  barns, cows, dutch belted cows, keyboards, long pigs, peacock