Tag: barns

• Chook Tricks

  

  I was half way through Daisy’s lunchtime milking when Allison called out from above my head. “There’s a dead chicken up here.” Allison had decided to take a bucket up into the loft of the barn to collect all the old eggs that had been languishing up there lost in the hay for more than a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 17, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  barns, chickens, Farm Stays, Laughter, old chooks, red door coop

• from above

  

  I was up in the loft of the barn counting bales, and just happened to have my camera.  I was hoping to get a shot of  Godot and Carlos Garcia, which was difficult as they are still keeping to the darkest corners. I love watching the animals from up there. The animals forget I am up…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 9, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  barns, calf, cats on hay, cows, farm animals, hay loft, old barns, sheep

• Still in the deep cold… just a mite chilly!

  Deep cold.  Last night it went down to- 2F (-18C) or if  you want to add windchill which I find a dubious equation at best,   it was -10 (-23C), pretty cold then I’d say. Many people have frozen pipes, no water in their houses and are just waiting it out.  I know many of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 12, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  barns, cold, freezing temperatures, raising animals in the cold

• There was a car hiding in my barn – off with its head!

  The peacocks have done a good job of camouflaging this car. It is a parts car, for a project that is on hold, and was using up an entire bay in the barn. So out it goes into the cold. To make room for animals in the winter.  Now you see it. Now you don’t.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 28, 2012

  Farming, Writing

  barns, car in barn, corn harvest, kittens playing, The Daily View, tree house, white russian, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Working alone on the farmy

  Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers.  Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today.  And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barns, cell phone, farm photography, ladders, life, safety on the farm