Tag: dogs

• Desperately Seeking Beautiful

  I looked for loveliness yesterday and found it everywhere. BooBoo doing his best to be lovely! Big Dog is always lovely. I find peacock feathers in the strangest places. Only the short ones now, all Kupa’s long feathers are in a vase catching the morning sun through the windows. Charlotte is trying her best to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  appples, celi, dog photography, dogs, hereford sow, life on a farm, peacock feathers, The kitchen’s garden

• Long Shots, giggly piglets and bottles of beer.

  This is the lane from the house to the gravel road. We are looking East. On the right which is the South side is the sweetcorn with the Maize up behind it. You can see how tall the maize (field corn) is when you see my tractor in front of it. Also look at how…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 7, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  celi, dogs, farm life, photography, raising pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• How to unload Ninety bales of hay before Breakfast

  1. Know when you are at your best. And my best is before breakfast. I don’t  know what it is about me but the moment I eat I want to have a wee lie down, (though I am never able to have that wee lie down) so I never eat breakfast until the heavy work…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cats, dogs, farming, farming by yourself, how to be a winner, how to bring in the hay, how to stack hay, in the barn, roosters

• Frigid Sunshine

  By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C).  I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  chickens, chooks, cold, cow, diatomaceous earth, dogs, farming in the cold, giving blood, hens, sheep

• Herding Pigs. I mean the PIGS were doing the herding!

  As I was admiring the flowers in my garden.  I noticed Mama laying about in the sun, but not looking quite right. On closer inspection she has a lesion above her hoof.  I needed to bring her into the barn for some attention.  So after the milking I led them all in. It is easier…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 10, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  dogs, herding sheep, herding sheep with pigs, pigs, sheep