Tag: farmlife

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  The Australorps are in the big brooder with random branches, learning to roost. They are still very sweet birds. The electric fences are up so Tia and Aunty can go to graze in the Dairy Mistress field. Though the paused for a long time in Daisy’s paddock hoping could stay. But there there is no…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 8, 2019

  Photography

  celi, chickens, countrylife, cows, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, The kitchen’s garden, weather

• NERVE

  

  Yesterday cleared into a beautiful calm sunny day. And we got everything done from that days list. The asparagus is all mulched, the duck house has two new windows covered in strong screen, I collected all the feeds and we stowed them in the shed out of the coming rain.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2019

  Photography

  Barn, countrylife, farming, farmlife, featured, hereford pigs, peacock, piglets, pigs, The kitchen’s garden, weather

• APRIL FIRST

  

  At last!! Time moves slowly in an Illinois March and this March was extra slow.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2019

  Photography

  Barn, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• DUCK CAKE

  

  Still no sign of another mink. But nature abhors a vacuum ( which is why I won’t let anyone bother my good band of coyotes). I have never had any trouble with the pack of coyotes whose territory includes my farm. If they were shot we might have a killer coyote move in. And now…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2019

  Photography

  countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, pigs, The kitchen’s garden, weather

• TRACKS

  

  Yesterday John picked up the snow plough on the way home from the airport and ploughed his way up the lane. A dramatic return. And now I can get my car out again!

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2019

  Photography

  animal photography, chickens, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, pigs, The kitchen’s garden