Tag: Ayrshire cow

• Awake

  

  Awake to Dawn Light. Awake. Really Awake. Barely Awake. Sometimes Awake. Oh, there you are. Awake. Yesterday we were simply awake. Drifting through our day and tired at the end of it. Daisy’s udder is showing considerable fullness. And she stood quietly for almost half an hour while I brushed her and talked to her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  awake, Ayrshire cow, celi, farm life, farm photography, hereford cow, peahens, pig on snow, Pregnant cow, The Fellowship, thekitchensgarden, udder fullness

• Ice, Ice everywhere and not a block for my drink

  Thank you for all yesterdays excellent comments re: printing Sheila’s calender. I have some wonderful avenues to explore now, in my search for ways for Sheila to make some pin money to buy extra feed and maybe outfit a new summer area for her in the Rat House.  Mama and the girls are living in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 27, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  Ayrshire cow, dog and lamb, frozen Illinois, hereford cow, ice on fields, smiles

• If Daisy had a Stick and a Thumb

  She would bash me for this shot! Not long Daisy Girl. My two big fat pregnant cows. March is breathing down my neck and since it does not look like Sheila is going to respond to the hormone treatment. She has been keeping herself busy cleaning out the pens. One of her jobs is to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• Guess who has come home!

  I got up before dawn yesterday morning, after a night fretting about Sheila and decided to bring her home. That is that, I thought. Bad weather was coming again. She was not well. I told the nice young fella that I was worried about the limping and her wound and I might come and take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2014

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, Beautiful cows, bringing home Sheila, cows, farm photography, hereford pig, homesteading, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• Frostbite on Barn Chickens

  Still cold. Do you see Daisy’s breath? First  something pretty: The Old Codger has given me his snow shoes .. aren’t they wonderful. When I walk the dogs across the snow in the morning I shall be wearing these .  I look forward to our morning walk. And now for something not so pretty. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire cow, Barn, celi, chickens with frostbite, cows, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, frostbite on chickens, The kitchen’s garden, winter farming