Tag: farming

• How to tell when your ewe is due.

  Yesterday I received this wonderful tip from one of the wonderful Fellowship of the Farmy. r says: January 25, 2014 at 5:03 am (Edit) I am throwing my two cents worth of lambing prediction for your consideration. I go by the udder size to predict the number of weeks or days until lambing. My sheep hate my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 26, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, cow, cows, farming, how to tell if your ewe is ready to lamb, seed catalogues, snow, The kitchen’s garden

• Rocking the Barn

  Not as in rock ‘n roll either. Just a’rockin’. The frozen winds were so strong yesterday that the barn was heaving in and out, like a giant loudly asthmatic bellows. Often I anchor the camera by leaning it on the barn wall or a post but that was hopeless yesterday as the whole barn was…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 25, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, farming, farming in the cold, old barn, snow, winds

• A Cold Beauty is it’s own Consolation

  When I wake up in the cold mornings, with the howling skies and the winds so sharp and clear they cut your teeth.  The ground is hard as pure hate. The ice lurking dark and deep under the snow. I cannot believe that there will ever again be a morning when I sit getly on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 20, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  farming, sheep, snow sunrise, sunset

• Photo-less friday and Sheila has a date.

  I know people have posts called Wordless Wednesday, and really it is Saturday though we are commenting on Friday, and I am never short of words but sometimes short of photos so it is Photo-less Friday on a Saturday.  It all gets so confusing.  Poor us living in the past with our pleasantly addled brains.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 18, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  berkshire hereford cross, farm photography, farming, hogs, pigs, the, The kitchen’s garden

• As it gets colder again (but not too cold we hope)

  The heat lamps come back on.  The dogs creep back into the house. Last weeks snow beings to look saggy and loose, disheveled. No longer pristine and attractive. Snow is a great leveller until it starts to sink and  go sallow. And the Daily View reaches a pinnacle of sublime sameness. But back comes the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 17, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cat and dog, farming, how to farm in the cold, pigs in the cold, the farm in the cold