Tag: cold

• The bees are alive, and beating the cold back with a stick.

  I know that the cold (we are below freezing for a while now: 3F (-17C) this morning) might try and make us feel bleak.  Pulling at the loose threads of our cardi’s trying to unravel us.  Butting heads with our warm outlooks. But look what we can do in the cold. Pasture-raised chicken on the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  bee hives in winter, beer, bees, cabbage, cold, humour, pasture raised chicken, snow, sunset

• How to make dog biscuits for pigs

  “Well!” I hear you say! “Treats for Pigs?”. But every good pig deserves a treat – Especially Our Sheila who survived the Big Chill with A Plomb and the easiest way to train a pig is with treats. Sad but True. I am the same. Here is the recipe: 2 cups wholemeal flour 1 cup oatmeal…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cold, dog treats, farming in the cold, pig treats, pigs, snow

• The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.

  Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, dogs in snow, farming in freezing temperatures, how to keep a pig warm, ice, pigs in snow, snow

• 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

• Daisy was poorly yesterday

  I heard a meteoroligist on the radio yesterday saying that we have another 15 days of this cold weather. Well, I thought. I am not sure I can wait THAT long. So yesterday I started spring without her.  Opened the barn doors wide even though it was only just above freezing.        …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  chewing the cud, cold, compost, cow not eating, lambs, late spring, sick cow