Category: Photography

• When in Doubt – Bake Bread

  

  Yesterday was stormy and cold. So I had a wee word to Daisy, who was looking restless, and told her Not Today darling, wait until the weather warms up.. Not Today. Then went inside to warm the kitchen by baking bread.  I inadvertently published this post, completely unfinished, yesterday afternoon when I was loading a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animals in barn, avalanche rescue dogs, big cow, big fat pig, celi, farm animals, old dog, pigs bottom, pigs tail, ski patrol dogs, ski patrols, The kitchen’s garden

• Waiting Daze

  

  Queenie is waiting. Waiting on Daisy.  Dazey Daisy. Who does not seem to be in any hurry to do terribly much. She now is (officially) a week away from calving .. they say if the calf comes earlier it is more likely to be a heifer, later a steer. Of course there are about a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  border collie and lump, cow close to calving, hereford heifer, hereford pig in snow, how do I know my cow is close to calving, Pregnant cow

• All Is Well

  

  TonTon, our darling Border Collie is fine. The growth under his chin, big enough to fit in my cupped hand, is a cyst. Possibly the result of a heamotoma or maybe something else, the Doc said. However he has antibiotics for the next ten days in the hopes of it going back down or popping…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire, border collie, buying kunekune gilt, cow, cow and lamb, dog lump, kunekune, lamb, lump under chin

• The Low Moan of a Cow

  

  Daisy needs lamby kisses. Poor Paisley Daisy. So large. So ripe.  Just about ready to fall out of her tree. She stands in the center of her straw bed pushing sheaves to and fro, eyeing the walls and the door, centering herself. Then she leans way forward and folds her long front legs right under…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 6, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, cow close to calving, farm photography, lamb, lifestyle, shearing sheep, snow

• Marcel the Happy

  

  Marcel The Happy has been allowed to go and live in the barn. Sweet as it is to have him pooping all over the furniture I have been waiting for a row of warmish days to get him acclimatised to living out with the other animals. He is a sheep after all. He is esconsed…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  dog on ice, little lamb in barn, long hereford pig, Pregnant cow, rooster in barn