Tag: farming

• 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

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig

  Back to the farm, the animals and ordinary old gardening and housework. Why is it that a drill always appears on the table when I am gone.  Boo  will not let me out of his sight now that I am home. He has picked up a few bad habits while you and I were not…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, celi, cows, farming, growing food to eat, hereford pigs, home again, piglets, The kitchen’s garden

• Tracking is Hell

  Yesterday morning at 9 am I was standing outside the FedEx depot door when it opened, (it is a hundred mile round trip.) I did all that was necessary to have it shipped, including paying with an arm and a leg. I handed my precious  envelope to a surly lady behind the computer. Explained that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 2, 2013

  Farming, Life

  celi, farming, teaching piglets to drink from spigot, The kitchen’s garden, tracking fedEx package, waiting

• Do you believe in miracles and magic and angels?

  ‘This is weird.’ John said, as he trudged back from the house to the hay field. He had checked the weather again when he went inside to take his cherry pie out of the oven (the cherries are ripe!) . “It looks like every storm that is coming our way today hits something and kind…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  bring in the hay, farm, farm photographs, farming, hope, images, magic, piglets playing

• Gilts and Barrows – Goods and Bads

  A little girl pig is a gilt until she has babies then she is a sow, a little boy pig starts out as a boar and becomes a barrow after his wee operation. The Kitchens Garden Farmy officially has six barrows and 2 gilts. The barrows will sell for less than the gilts but are…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 23, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barrows, breeding hereford heifers, farming, G, gilts, piglets, raising pigs, wet hay