Category: Life

• Drinking from Puddles and making Sauerkraut with Whey

  Puddles are superior drinking water evidently. John is a great believer in fermented foods – most especially sauerkraut (he is of German extraction – the extraction being way way back in the mists of time).  Live foods are incredibly food for the gut and therefore the general well being of the consumer. Pasteurised and ultra…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 12, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cabbage, food, kitten, labneh, live enzymes, puddles, sauerkraut, whey

• Rain.. Yay.. Blink.. Oh.. Was that IT?!!

  Even in the depths of winter farmers long for moisture falling on the fields. We received a little shine from the heavens and should be grateful. But I am greedy.  My fields and gardens even in their winter slumber are greedy. I wanted RAIN! Lots of rain.  But we did get a shower or two…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  animals, Dorset ram, farm photography, old man winter, silk underwear, winter

• The lovely tiredness that comes from good hard work

  I am not used to working so hard anymore, my body has gone into winter mode but this brief respite from the cold  must not be wasted. So I shoveled the proverbial almost all day yesterday. A new pile of compost was started. And the others were turned over.  And any areas that might have…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2013

  Farming, Life, Organic farming, Photography

  cleaning out the pens in the barn, eggs, mastoblast, peacocks tail feathers, thaw

• A Tiny Thaw that Melted the Daily View

  Get down off that wardrobe Thing One and go outside, it is a lovely day.  Did Miss c make you go outside too? I am just watching The View melt. Did I miss something? No, we are watching The Thaw Tui. You can join us. Is it thaw time?  No. It is just a thawy…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 9, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  california Mastitis Kit, milking cows, somatic cell counts, thawing snow

• Chooks are very strict Babysitters

  This is a scene I happen upon quite often lately. The chooks put the kittens down for their afternoon nap then slowly surround them.  Babysitting. These two sister chickens are always the closest to the kittens. You may remember them from the spring when they were job sharing one small chick, who they eventually lost.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, farm photography, hereford pigs, milking cow, Once a Day Milking, photography, pigs