Category: Life

• How to make dog biscuits for pigs

  “Well!” I hear you say! “Treats for Pigs?”. But every good pig deserves a treat – Especially Our Sheila who survived the Big Chill with A Plomb and the easiest way to train a pig is with treats. Sad but True. I am the same. Here is the recipe: 2 cups wholemeal flour 1 cup oatmeal…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cold, dog treats, farming in the cold, pig treats, pigs, snow

• Sundogs – like bookends for a frozen day.

  Yesterday was officially freezing.  Real freezing cold. Not that fake cold when your dressing gown is in the dryer and you have to run to the toilet in your nightie and the toilet seat is cold and you shiver and say God that is cold. No, this was real cold. Razer cold that shaves at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, celi, chickens, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, sun dogs, sundogs, sunrise, sunset, The kitchen’s garden

• Struggling to Farm in the deep cold and driving snow

  Yesterday the snow and the wind fought it out all day and into the night.  The umpire fled, the cheerleaders bolted. The game deteriorated into a brawl. It was all about hard faced driving snow.  Snow piling up just where you want to walk, then blowing itself up into, around and ahead of the next…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 6, 2014

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Artic Vortex, farming in extreme cold, high winds, snow, Storms in the midwest

• The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.

  Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, dogs in snow, farming in freezing temperatures, how to keep a pig warm, ice, pigs in snow, snow

• So far so good

  It was minus -10C (-23F)  when I went out to start the chores yesterday morning.  And the animals were handling it well. Double rations and lots of extra bedding seems to be working so far.  By lunchtime we  were above zero. Which was nice. Do you remember me saying the other day that getting up…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  crampons for boots, horses in the snpw, old farms, snow on the prairie, winter, winter pictures