Tag: cows

• Hiding out from the Rain and the Story of Daisy’s name

  And then it poured!  Isn’t this grand, I said to the animals as they stood at their doors watching the rain come down.  Sometimes on rainy days we tell each other stories.  Daisy wanted to know why she had been called Daisy.  It all started with a rainy day I said to Daisy. With the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dying, grief, naming, rain

• A few Farmy Highlights (in pictures) from Jan-Dec 2012

  January 2012 begins with a sunset.  and so mild I was drinking a beer on the verandah.  February 2012 – got a little bit chilly though the winter of 2012 was comparatively mild.  Queenie Wineti the Hereford heifer and our darling Mary’s Cat did not mind the cold.  Mary’s Cat was everyones fearless friend.  March…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 1, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  2012, 2013, calf, cows, farming, farmy, lambs, new years day, The Duke of Kupa

• A few Farmy Highlights (in pictures) from Jan-Dec 2012

  January 2012 begins with a sunset.  and so mild I was drinking a beer on the verandah.  February 2012 – got a little bit chilly though the winter of 2012 was comparatively mild.  Queenie Wineti the Hereford heifer and our darling Mary’s Cat did not mind the cold.  Mary’s Cat was everyones fearless friend.  March…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 1, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  2012, 2013, calf, cows, farming, farmy, lambs, new years day, The Duke of Kupa

• Cold wind blowing

  .A cold day is fine. Or should I say a fine cold day is fine. But a cold day,  though not too cold with a high of 29F (-1C),  but with low slate gray clouds and a relentless wind becomes uncomfortable. Yesterday it  snowed on and off and blew without enthusiasm.  So we worked in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 30, 2012

  Farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows, hereford heifer, mastitis, milking cows, sheep

• Shuffling the cards of cows.

  On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow.  Just a little.  Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well.  When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths  associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 29, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, chickens, cows, eggs, feed, hay