Category: Photography

• POLISH DUMPLINGS (PIEROGI RUSKIE)

  

  So many of my woofers over the years have been the children of immigrants. And, for me, the most wonderful thing about having such kids around is the discussions about the food their parents have brought to America with them.  Food is big talk when working out in the fields.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 24, 2018

  Food, Photography

  cooking, food, natural, pierogi, polish dumplings

• FENCING COWS IN AND PUSHING DUCKS OUT.

  

    Yesterday we were fencing. The weather was fine and cool. The ground is getting hard fast but other than that putting up an electric fence is not a hard job. And in this weather it is actually pretty satisfying to put in a good fence. Of course I say we were fencing but we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 23, 2018

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography

  ducks, farming, fencing, life, raisingducks, small farms, weather

• ALL BARK AND NO BITE

  

  Due to the fact that there is no hay on the ground, all these black clouds were just that. Dark broody black clouds that growled as they passed by but delivered no rain.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 22, 2018

  Photography

• TRIAGE VS PRIORITIES

  That is a rather grand title for such an ordinary post. But for me: Triage means dealing with the task that has a better chance of getting finished and priorities means putting the most important to the top of the list. Not the same thing at all. And why I would wake up to find…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 21, 2018

  cows, Farming, Photography

  Barn, cows, ducks, farming, priorities, triage, weather

• UNDER COVER

  

  After being rained on the day we were to bale and then all the next night, yesterday evening we finally got the hay baled and under cover. About one hundred bales are pretty good – a little wetter than they should be …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 20, 2018

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farming, haymaking, weather