Tag: cow

• “You’ve strangled me?” I said to the nice man, moving Moaning Mia out of the way with my hip.

  “Throttled. Yes Ma’am.”  “So.. TonTon I cannot play with your ball from in here! Think about what you are doing! Mia stop that, stop jumping! Wait.” I said to the little man.  “Mia,  Get OUT of the chook house. I have got to fix this door. Stop that, this is a phone not a toy.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 8, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  bees, cow, farm animals, internet, sheep, winter

• Shocking Attempt at a Christmas Eve Break Out!

  Psst. Marys Cat stop fooling around and come over here.  You got to help me get out of here.  You gotta help me. Come here, make yourself useful you daft cat. Lean down and open that hook. See that hook. Pull it up. No, more to the left.  More to the right! I mean your…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 25, 2011

  Farming, Humour, Photography

  barnyard, cat, cow, Mama Sheep, Mary’s Cat, sheep, Shocking

• How do I ruin a perfectly good pair of Sheer Black Stockings?

  Make beeswax!  Didn’t expect that did you? I have these beeswax cappings left over from this fall’s honey making process. They have been sitting and waiting patiently for me to render the honey out of them and collect the wax. I have a special pot that I keep just for this job. It is impossible…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 6, 2011

  Bees, Sustainable farming

  beeswax, cow, honey, lip balm, silk stockings

• Farm Days from Dawn to Dusk

  Did you ever see that movie Dusk ’til Dawn. Well, a day on the sustainable, self sufficient, old fashioned farm is Nothing LIKE that!!! It starts at dawn. John leaves for work in the dark at 5am.  I talk to you guys and catch up with my messages until the sun comes up. I make…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 2, 2011

  Farming, Life, Organic farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Barn, cow, dawn, dusk, images, sheep, sunrise, sunset

• Daisy lost in the cornfield and grandma’s rissole recipe,

  So the pasture is beginning to wane a bit. Not as much grass. At this time of year we put a harness on Daisy, the milk cow to be, and take her on a dog leash into the wild long grass.  I am not kidding, I wander along (she will not be hurried)  leading this…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2011

  Farm Animals, Farming, Life, Living the life, Meals, Photography, Recipes

  Ayrshire cow, cold meat, cornfield, cow, egg, onion, potato, recipe, rissoles