Category: Living the life

• Do you really want to live sustainably – self sufficiently?

  Sustainable is not only about food. It is also about lifestyle. Our house is heated by a wood stove. (We only use trees that have fallen in storms or been culled by farmers.)  This means that only one area of the house is heated, the rest is just .. well .. cold. I lay in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cats and cows, cows, farming, pigs, sustainable farming

• Ploughed out – again

  I still love the snow. But I am always grateful when I see the snow-plough rushing down our little gravel road clearing a path for me. Sunday yesterday. A quiet day. Look at this naughty big fat pig following me around bossing everybody about. Her wound from the boar bite is not looking too good,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  facebook, pig and cows, snow, Sunday, thekitchens garden

• Peahen on the Barn

  We had about three inches of snow yesterday, maybe more it is hard to judge. Then we had ice rain down on it, then it snowed again, then ice rained down on that. Then it got warm enough for the tops of the snow to melt a little, then it froze again. So by late…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 2, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  peahen on barn

• The snow stood still in the air.. thinking its little think

  The wind died  down yesterday. I don’t care how it died frankly, as long as it was gone. We all crept up out from behind our shelters, sniffing the air. The snow gently falling, in no hurry to go anywhere. Did you see Mama, she seldom comes out into the field nowadays. Preferring to stick…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  celi, farming in the cold, good morning, hereford pig, ice storm, sheep in snow, snow, the kitchens garden farm

• Guess who has come home!

  I got up before dawn yesterday morning, after a night fretting about Sheila and decided to bring her home. That is that, I thought. Bad weather was coming again. She was not well. I told the nice young fella that I was worried about the limping and her wound and I might come and take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2014

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, Beautiful cows, bringing home Sheila, cows, farm photography, hereford pig, homesteading, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden