Other than opening the windows and doors? The most natural air freshener in the world is 179 bales of freshly cut hay stacked into the barn. Hay has this newly mowed grass crossed with bright notes of sunshine kind of scent. If we could… Continue Reading “The most natural air freshener ever”
I am updating The Cast page. Check it out and make sure I have all the present residents. There are not as many now but with the new website imminent it is time for an update. (Make sure I have your email so I… Continue Reading “The Cast. Who have I missed?”
Yesterday a man who I will not name because he is a local mowed the ditches ghen set fire to them then left the area. Of course it roared up in the wind and shot out in all directions burning up dry, dry grass… Continue Reading “HEAT and FIRE”
The other day I opened Poppy’s electric fence gate so she could come out and visit with Sheila but she refuses to cross where the electric fence WAS. I bring her food over and she paces back and forth in front of the memory… Continue Reading “THE WHITE LINE”
Posted on February 5, 2018
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
39 Comments
Don’t eat yellow snow. Just sayin’.
Category: Farm Animals, farmphotography, PhotographyTags: blizzard, blood shortage, cold, cows, farmanimals, giving blood, redcross, snow, weather, winter
Posted on January 25, 2018
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
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gain By yesterday morning the sick pig was given an A- and by yesterday evening she was given an A+ and was back to shoving the others out of the way to get to her food. Her breathing is still a little laboured but… Continue Reading “PUSHY COW”
Category: Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: blogging, cows, farmanimals, farming, fences, pig, prairie, weather, wildness, winter
Back at the Farm.
Category: PhotographyTags: animals, calves, cats, cold, countrylife, cows, dogs, farmanimals, farming, midwest, pigs, snow, travel, weather, womenfarmers
Posted on December 15, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
33 Comments
Yesterday was calm and though cold with little sun the animals and I chalked it up as a good day. We have had so much wind lately that when it is still it feels both ominous and charmed all at once.
Category: Farm Animals, FarmingTags: barncats, cats, country, countrylife, cows, farm cats, farmanimals, farming, milking cows, packing, pigs, travelling
Posted on November 8, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
33 Comments
And that is all. Just Speed.
Category: Farming, farmphotography, hereford pigs, Life, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: cows, farmanimals, field corn, hogs, pigs, white rock chickens
Posted on September 24, 2017
by Cecilia Mary Gunther
30 Comments
THE HEAT, RETURNS
Category: cows, Farming, Photography, Sustainable farmingTags: animals in heat, bloat, farmanimals, farming, featured, heat, milkcow, Molly