Tag: celi

• 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

• Sundogs – like bookends for a frozen day.

  Yesterday was officially freezing.  Real freezing cold. Not that fake cold when your dressing gown is in the dryer and you have to run to the toilet in your nightie and the toilet seat is cold and you shiver and say God that is cold. No, this was real cold. Razer cold that shaves at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, celi, chickens, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, sun dogs, sundogs, sunrise, sunset, The kitchen’s garden

• Writing and farming below freezing

  Yesterday was colder than ever and the wind was blowing fiercely scoring the skin off my face and the water out of my own eyes. So cold that if you are doing the dishes and your hands are a little wet, and you pop outside for a piece of wood for the stove and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, celi, cow, farm photography, farming, homesteading, writing, Yesterdays Temperatures

• Corn is down.. I can see for miles and miles!

  With a sunrise like this we had to have a good day. And we did. Because the men in their green machines, came and took the corn away. Later we went out to play in the stripped field. After pausing in the long grass for ‘short legs’ to rest. And watching Egoli – his new hunting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 29, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cats and dogs, celi, harvesting the corn, kitten in the field, life, miss c, The kitchen’s garden

• Vegetable garden gone. Frost. Blink. Frost. Gone.

  Daily sweetness.  Marmalade Cat (to be – still Marmalade Kitten really) and Boo-Nanny.  Not enough yet? Let’s have a double wammy. The Marmalade kitten creeping up on Boo Nanny. The most obvious ambush in the world. Wee kittys .. um..toilet is becoming more normal so we are going outside three or four times a day…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  cats dogs, celi, cow, farm animals, frosted vegetable gardens, hoop house, kittens and dogs, life, living the life, sheep, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden