Tag: dogs

• Every Pig Needs a Fan

  

  Two Hundred and Eleven Bales of Hay.  Not a bad days work at all! Above is the toppings bales from Daisy’s paddock and below the alfalfa mix from the haymakers field. The good hay. Lovely green hay just like my darling hay mentor Linda, has been telling me I should strive for. This lady and her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 6, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cows, dogs, hay making, how many bales per cow, kune kune

• Sabotage

  

  There is a little devil in me that hates for me to succeed. I have lived with this little devil all my life.  This devil in my brain is a saboteur. Time and time again I get so close to wonder, so close to real creation then I change tacks and wander off to something else.  Sabotaging myself.  Yesterday…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  dogs, farm animals, farms, not finishing things, personal sabotage, pigs, sheep, writing

• The Cuteness Factory

  

  Not too many words today. Words seem to tax my brain and my back more than images and hay bales do when I am tired. We are building up to Busy here and every step I take I have to take with care making sure my feet go into metaphorically firm ground. My mind must…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  calves, dogs, farming, house pigs, kunekune, pigs

• As the snow turns to a dogs delight: slush and mud

  The day stayed well above freezing yesterday. The snow began to melt and all the animals  heads came back up. Incredibly the sparrows indulged in a bird bath. Splashing about in the melting ice. Not quite that warm I thought. But there you are,  I am  not that kind of bird. I opened all the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 20, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, cats, dogs, farm photography, no waste, peacock, pigs, The Duke of Kupa

• Are peacocks noisy?

  Tui the peahen very kindly clambered up on top of one of the Car Carcasses so I could get a better shot of her for you. (Crouching down is still out of the question for me). I was asked the other day whether the pea fowl are noisy. Not really. In fact from late summer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life

  are peacocks noisy, are peafowl noisy?, dogs, humour, pea hens, pig