Category: Life

• Marmalade poses as Dennis the Menace

  Marmalade, your wee puss, raised  by hand since he was only a couple of weeks old,  is a horror. He seldom touches the floor, preferring to zoom about the room flying from chairs to tables to couch to sideboard, leaving a  frothy broken tide of disaster in his wake and trailing wild dogs and cats…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 29, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  bad kitten, dogs on walks, humour, kitten, laugh, marmalade, snow cold

• Amazing shots of the sundogs , visiting Sheila and racking the wine.

  The sun with his dogs.  Frankly I find these images downright spooky. These were taken from the field and yes it was cold.  Ads shooting straight into the sun creates some odd effects but there is something deeply supernatural about these.  What does it mean to have this in your skies, as you trudge in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 28, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  midwest winter sundogs, racking beer, racking wine, sundog phenomena, sundogs

• The Firewood, the Ark, and Sheila Bites the Boar

  Out on The Matriarch’s old farm, where John grew up, is an old mulberry tree planted by his Grandfather.  Last winter this branch fell. This winter this dead branch will keep his grandson (and his good wife)  warm. On the way home we dropped into John’s workshop (at the old farm) so he could show…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 27, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  breeding berkshire hereford cross, breeding pigs, chicken ark, gathering firewood, raising meat chickens

• How to tell when your ewe is due.

  Yesterday I received this wonderful tip from one of the wonderful Fellowship of the Farmy. r says: January 25, 2014 at 5:03 am (Edit) I am throwing my two cents worth of lambing prediction for your consideration. I go by the udder size to predict the number of weeks or days until lambing. My sheep hate my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 26, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, cow, cows, farming, how to tell if your ewe is ready to lamb, seed catalogues, snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Rocking the Barn

  Not as in rock ‘n roll either. Just a’rockin’. The frozen winds were so strong yesterday that the barn was heaving in and out, like a giant loudly asthmatic bellows. Often I anchor the camera by leaning it on the barn wall or a post but that was hopeless yesterday as the whole barn was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, farming, farming in the cold, old barn, snow, winds