Tag: dutch belted cows

• Turns

  

  Yesterday the snow fell on and off for the whole day. But it did not have any  kind of real resolve, It was just there.  A half hearted affair.  Showers, flurries nothing much. So I cycled through my list. Getting the collars on the Dutchies so they could learn Phase Two of the milking routine:…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 27, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  chores, dutch belted cows, farming, farming in the cold, hereford pigs, old barns, snow, white owl

• The D –

  

  I am up very early. I awoke at 2.30 anD lay in beD for a while thinking all those awful thoughts one thinks when you cannot sleep. AnD I am a granD sleeper, just sometimes after a trip away my sleeping pattern interrupts. It is snowing steaDily outsiDe. Huge fluffy flakes. I knew it was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  barns, cows, dutch belted cows, keyboards, long pigs, peacock

• Can you do without a weather report?

  

  I have been considering doing without a weather report as my next personal challenge.  But maybe not. At least not in the Mid Western Winter. There is some kind of storm in the offing for tonight but we will see.  And the sun shone all day yesterday. Every single animal on the farm was basking in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  dutch belted cows, godot, home again, kittens, kune kune, pigs, sun on the farm, tima and tane, white peacocks

• Home

  

  This post is at an odd time of the day but I am just popping in to let you know that I am home. Boo is home.  All the animals are present and correct.  I have been around everyone and they are ll glowing with good health. I am yawning. I was fine until last…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 29, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  dutch belted cows, farming, kittens, life, tired, travel