Tag: cow

• 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

• the mantle of fog settles on the farmy

  “Fog is made up of condensed water droplets which are the result of the air being cooled to the point (actually, the dewpoint) where it can no longer hold all of the water vapor it contains.”  Well, that is the scientific reason. The real reason is that we all need to rest our minds and have a wee…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 4, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  cow, farm photography, farming, fog, fog on the farm, how to make hot chocolate, 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

• The Corn Thief

  Boo has  begun stealing ripe dry maize out of the field. They call it field corn here. Oh yes! He eats it! He is one BAD Boy. Bad Boo. Sheila is on a diet and deeply unimpressed.  Did I tell you that I have decided to breed her myself in January. I don’t want to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 14, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading, Humour

  audio books, cow, farming, pigs

• Is there a song that goes: Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun?

  I think there is. I was humming it all day long yesterday. It was bendy tree windy but we had piles of sun. Sun-Sun Sun-Sun. I could not find my phone for a while – apparently someone had been going through my jacket pockets! Puppys nowadays will only settle for the very latest technology. Everyone…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 15, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  australian cattle dog, Blue Heeler pup, cow, farming, hereford pig sleeping, homesteading, milking cow, peacocks and hens, puppy with iphone, sheep on grass, The kitchen’s garden