Tag: cows

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

  And here we are back on the farmy. After an uneventful and long, long  couple of flights to Chicago from Auckland, I was whisked away from the madding crowds of  airport people, with all its suspicion and controlled chaos and driven back to the howling prairies. The wind has been blowing out of the North…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography, Travel

  Barn, cows, farm life, Illinois, pigs, sheep

• Multi tasking would be better as a monotask

  This is the result of multi tasking. Do not mix trying not to repack, simmering a redwine reduction for tonight’s pasta, making a homemade pizza for lunch, cleaning out the fridge, stamping cards and making the Final List, plus cleaning the basement laundry when I really should have been tidying the bedroom.  A beautiful crust,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 2, 2012

  Farming, Travel

  cows, food, homemade pizza, peacock, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• The Three Rooskerteers

  Sorry.. had to say it. Titles!  Actually I did  a double (or is it triple) take when i saw this shot. I actually thought I only had two roosters who looked exactly the same – Son of Neanderthal Man, and the Son of The Son of Neanderthal Man.  Neanderthal Man had the feathers on his…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 27, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  carhart jacket, cows, milking time, pig talk, roosters

• We usually have break outs…

  …not break INS. I know this is hard to see but at the end of the pig sty is .. well WAS a fence..  The Shush sisters have been loitering in their summer fields, and hanging out in the sun-room on the South side of the barn, which meant that I had moved the Bobby…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 14, 2012

  Farming, Life

  cow breaking fences, cows, farming, fencing, hay, kittens in bricks, pigs

• Daisy’s Naughty Face

  Daisy is not always nice. But she is slowly increasing her milk production again.  Ever so slowly. She was smelling sweeter yesterday too.  I personally think she has been a little off colour. She has had other symptoms indicating a heath struggle. But she is improving. It may be that because they are eating the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 11, 2012

  Farming, Humour, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine

  cows, Nanowrimo, sheep, The Daily View, Yesterdays Temperatures