Tag: dealing with failure

• Pneumonia takes Piglet.

  One of the piglets has died. The little one. He had pneumonia. Pigs show no signs of pneumonia until they are far advanced. No coughing or runny nose. Not even a hot nose actually. Just a creeping lethargy I suppose. Lack of appetite and then eventually no appetite at all. I noticed the night before…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life

  dealing with failure, failure, farming, pneumonia in piglets, swine parasites

• Mia – Not good I am afraid

  Mia has miscarried all her lambs. This is sad for everyone. When I was a young Mum raising a family alone in New Zealand (we were thin but happy), before I started teaching, I used to pick up odds and sods of jobs here and there. One of them was picking apples while the kids…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 2, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Writing

  dealing with failure, dealing with grief, ewe miscarrying, miscarried lambs

• Human Error Kills Bees

  Yesterday afternoon I spent some time researching the bees problem. Trying to work out how my two hives died over this winter. I checked all the links you sent me (thank you) and these links took me to other links, I made notes and collated information and a miserable picture has appeared. After playing colour…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, bees dying in the winter weather, dead hives, dealing with failure, failure

• The day it all fell apart

  I went out yesterday morning to milk and discovered that things were not going to be as easy as I had imagined.  Daisy was in a fury because I was sharing her baby.  She roared into the barn,  heaving herself about. Rolling her eyes at me and startling as the chickens woke and fell-flew from…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 9, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows, dealing with failure, milking, pigs, sheep, teenager workers