Category: Living the life

• Sometimes we all need to have a good think.

  Yesterday I awoke to 22F, this morning it is 40F.  But summer  is over. That life’s force we call Mother Nature is more powerful that any goverment, any warlike clan.  Any law, any silly little wish. Any roof and any plan. When they say the Force of Nature they mean the ultimate force.  She is the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 9, 2012

  Bees, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  jersey cows, life, mother nature, planning, preparing for winter, sustainable farming, taking stock

• Pigs Play Ball Too you know…

  Yesterday as promised we had a good hard frost.  Our John covered a variety of plants with blankets but I think we are reaching the end of the summer vegetables. Bobby Blanc is in love with one of the Surrogate Milkers. They are getting a handle on the routine very well and soon will take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 7, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  barn images, calf, cows, dodge truck, pigs playing with ball

• The great escape (didn’t we do this already?)

  Yesterday started out like any other but turned out to be a bit of a bother.                      Daisy is almost definitely not pregnant. Which means I will have to milk her through the winter (sigh) and then breed her again in May/June next year.  I do not…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 4, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  drying beans, lost pig, sheep

• Butt-heads Butt Heads

  This morning shot is for yummy chunklet who loves to see the sky and does not see much of it, marooned up there in the big city! The sun was still so low it was obscured by the Rat House.  And a rose by any other name.. is a rose whose name I cannot remember but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  head butts, water barrels, white rose, writers desk, writing competition

• It’s OK I won’t count the days!

  The Duke of Kupa is still beautiful… … even though his tail is all but gone for the winter. The girls are all hanging out together in the Potato Paddock. A little flock. And look who has been let out of the hospital wing and rejoined the nursery… Bobby Blanc is all better. Much to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire calf, border collie, daily shot, Duke of Kupa, little flock of sheep, peacock, temperature in Illinois, The kitchen’s garden