Tag: farm life

• Daisy begins her dry period

  Today I will not be milking Daisy. The milking has finished. Oh, how I will miss the milk. And I will miss milking but after a while. It will be nice to have the time off.  It will be a shock to the system, not milking. We have been milking Daisy for over a year…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 30, 2013

  Vines and Wine

  celi, drying up a dairy cow, farm life, how to dry up a milking cow, milking a cow, The kitchen’s garden

• Kupa shows his bad side.

  All my city clothes were peeled off, stepped out of, abandoned and dropped in snail heaps on the bedroom floor as I morphed back into miss c. I will pick them all up later I promise but I was late for chores and everyone was calling. They knew they could use my guilt about being…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 17, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  farm life, homesteading, kittens, peacock, sunset

• Part two of the farmy walkabout but have I missed somebody?

  This is what the very few people who drive down our country road are seeing. Daily changes. Not much changing with Daisy though. She stands exactly here for most of the day. Watching the kitchen door for movement.  Daisy is an Ayrshire. A very old breed of dairy cow.  She is almost four. She is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 18, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Duke of Kupa, farm life, guinea fowl, homesteading, milk cow, peacocks, sheep, sustainable farming

• 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

• Oh dear

  We had a good old fashioned farming day yesterday. Mama and Mia were shifted into the rat house paddock, separated from the lambs now for a good while. Mia has gone for company and Mama because that naughty Meadow is still stealing a drink every now and then and Mama needs to be in tip…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 17, 2012

  Humour, Sustainable farming

  dog, farm life, heifer, life, pig, small farm life, steer cat