Tag: countrylife

• Weather coming in

  

  My beautiful field almost ready to be baled and now there is weather coming in early this afternoon. So I am going to try and get it baled and into the barn before the storms roll in. There are three fields like this.  I cannot lose another lot.  I think most will be well dry –…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 4, 2017

  Farming, Photography

  clouds, countrylife, farming, farmlife, haymaking, rain

• Aunty Del

  

  Poor Aunty Del cannot quite understand why she is not allowed in the  milking room eve-ery morning.  She leans her head over the door and looks quite perplexed watching her friend Astor loudly munch her GM free treats while being milked. Molly broke through a fence yesterday. Pigs always find the weak spot in fences.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 31, 2017

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  anti flies, Aunty Del, countrylife, cows, farming, farmlife, fighting pigs, milking, pigs, SWAT

• The gangs all here

  

  Aunty Del has come back to the home paddocks.  She very happily leapt up into the stock trailer and I drove her over from the West Farm. I missed her.  She brought Lady Astor’s bobby with her.  She spent quite a bit of time leaning over the fence watching Wai the litte rescue potbelly waddle…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 8, 2017

  Farming, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countrylife, cows, farmlife, fields, John Deere

• So cool

  

  This morning it is 54F (12C). Not cold in wintery terms but downright chilly in the language of a midwest summer.  All the animals are more than happy about it though. Except the wee chicks. It is very good for the meat chickens who are nearing their butchering weight.  The compost is almost completely combined…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 5, 2017

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography

  countrylife, dogs, Ketchup, kunekune, pigs, potbelly, rescue potbelly, small farms, sustainable farming, tomat conserva