Category: Photography

• Comparing bellies

  Piles of snow. Wonderful. All day yesterday it resolutely melted into the fields. Good snow.    Of course now I am watching Charlotte like a hawk for any signs of pregnancy. Which belly do you think is the pregnant one.  Charlotte is just over four weeks pregnant now. Maybe it is a little too early…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 26, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  dogs in barn, newly pregnant hereford pig, peacock and guinea, snow images

• Can pigs get morning sickness?

  Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering.  Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn cat, old barn, pigs, pregnant pig, snow, snow pictures

• We’re Back!!

  Well we are back then. All well on the farmy and I am learning to type on a smaller keyboard. Apparently I am all thumbs! My big old laptop decided it had come to the end of the line. Just at springtime when our cash reserves are low aand with no growth in the fields…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 24, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  computer problems, life, little computer, lucky, notebook, s, sheep, sowing pasture, steer, toshiba

• Siberian Sun

  This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful  siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind.  Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud.  So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated the sun though even if it was straight from Siberia. Every…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bottle fed lambs, chickens, freezing sun, old barn, peacock, roosters, wind

• Daisy was poorly yesterday

  I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her.  Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing.        …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  chewing the cud, cold, compost, cow not eating, lambs, late spring, sick cow