Category: Living the life

• Travelling with 10 chickens, 2 lambs, and a dog.

  Taking a car full of animals to the retirement home to visit the residents is a lot like traveling with babies. I feel like I have to pack everything, just in case. I have to prepare for all manner of messes. I have the milk, the brush, the wipe rags, the blankies, the toys, the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 10, 2012

  Humour, Life, Organic farming, Therapy Dogs

  peonie, potato plants, retirement home, sheep, Therapy animals, therapy dog, tomato plants

• Kupa woos the ladies! A must see!

  Yesterday I emptied and cleaned the pig’s paddling pool and gave their whole pen a hose out. They were very helpful the entire time in a pushy piggy kind of way.  It was such a lovely sunny day that I felt bad for the peahens locked up in their enclosure, so I let them out.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 9, 2012

  Life, Organic farming, Photography

  Barn, farm life, life, peacock display, peahens, pig, wool

• The Best Mother’s Day Gift is not a Toad

  No, it is not a toad. Unless of course Mum loves toads or your Toad lives in a Hall.  The best Mother’s Day present is probably not a skinny nosy chicken. Better to have a fat one, served with roasted rosemary potatoes and gravy scented with orange zest.  The best Mother’s day present is not…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 8, 2012

  Humour, Life, Organic farming

  chicken, didgereedoo, images, mothers day gifts, peacocks, pigeon, toad

• Love at First Sight. Kupa, The Romantic Peacock !

  On our return from the Bantam Swap, I placed the cage, with Kupa’s surprise, into the still empty turkey enclosure and left the cage door open while closing the pen door.  This was so Kupa could see but not touch for a wee while. I had no idea how peacocks behave with strangers.  Kupa was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 7, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  peacock, peahen, prairie storm, severe storm\, storm, wind images

• Queenie is sent to Coventry for Picking Fights…

  ..With Pigs. Yes you read right.  Queenie Wineti my sweet little Hereford heifer was caught picking a fight with a small PIG. It started out as such a soft and gentle misty day. The animals all slept in. The peacock added his new found calls to the usual barnyard noises. I went to bed with…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 6, 2012

  Life, Organic farming, Photography

  bantam swap, compost, cows, creep pen, John Deere, lambs, mist, pea hen, peacock, pigs, ram