Category: Photography

• Marauding pigs break into the chook-run

  Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  carhart, farming, homesteading, life, photography, pigs, sheep, winter

• A Tiny Tour through the Tiny House

  These shots of The Matriarchs Coupe were taken to send to the man who we hope will plaster our dry wall. This is a very specialised job, not for the faint of heart.   I thought you may be interested in the rough shots as well. They are boney and raw.   And I hope you…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 13, 2013

  Photography, Tiny House

  addition for nanny, building, building a tiny house, granny flat, tiny house

• Polishing the beams and Growing Cabbages in the Window

  If you thought the other day was murky and mucky! Well I spoke too soon. Yesterday drizzled and snowed flurried on and off and the murk deepened. And the skunk is back. We have not seen her but we can smell her, not on TonTon yet but you remember last year.  This dog is a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, Photography

  barn beams, kefir ice cream, repurposing, seedlings, The kitchen’s garden, vegetable garden

• The Mucky Murk or is it The Murky Muck

  Yesterday was a study in getting stuck in the mud. I squelched my way through fields with my arms out like wings trying to keep my balance. The ground underneath is still frozen so in some areas the melting soil is like a slurry on top of ice, in others it is deep cold muck…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animal photography, border collie, cows, farming, homesteading, mud, mud on the farm, sheep

• Lambs go out and play in the snow

  I began the big clean in the barn yesterday. Working our way through each pen … … forking out all the old hay out to the compost piles.. … scraping and cleaning the concrete floors … c .. … …everything get sprinkled with diatomaceous earth to kill any bugs, then lime to dry it out…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 10, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cleaning the barn, farming, old barns, quad lambs, Suffolk sheep and quads