Category: Vines and Wine

• What a peachick looks like

  Now, we are not officially ‘Meeting’ chickpea yet, he is still following his mother through the pig pen with all that hustle and bustle, under the hooves of cows as she finds water and through the long grass of the fields. So the little fella has not truly come into focus yet. Pania gets very…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 21, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  ginger cats, new covered verandah, pea chick, what does a peachick look like

• Drama in the skies

  This little plane was spraying something on a nearby field and banked and turned above the barn a number of times. We had our own little airshow for a few minutes. Though what they were spraying, who knows. Big dog as a shadow. When my cowboy hat blew off TonTon was thrilled to retrieve it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  pea chicks, The tiny House, top dressing planes

• Daisy begins her dry period

  Today I will not be milking Daisy. The milking has finished. Oh, how I will miss the milk. And I will miss milking but after a while. It will be nice to have the time off.  It will be a shock to the system, not milking. We have been milking Daisy for over a year…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 30, 2013

  Vines and Wine

  celi, drying up a dairy cow, farm life, how to dry up a milking cow, milking a cow, The kitchen’s garden

• Gilts and Barrows – Goods and Bads

  A little girl pig is a gilt until she has babies then she is a sow, a little boy pig starts out as a boar and becomes a barrow after his wee operation. The Kitchens Garden Farmy officially has six barrows and 2 gilts. The barrows will sell for less than the gilts but are…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barrows, breeding hereford heifers, farming, G, gilts, piglets, raising pigs, wet hay

• Happy Talk Farmy Days

  Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do, You gotta have a dream,  if you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true? Do you remember South Pacific?  When we were very young my Mum and Dad took us to see the musical. I never forgot…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 18, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  Dreams, dreams come true, hereford piglets for sale, piglets, vegetable garden