Tag: hens

• Frigid Sunshine

  By the time we had finished milking yesterday morning and brought everything back inside it was minus 3F (-20C).  I do not deal in windchills as I don’t understand the equation so I won’t tell you what the windchill was. There was hardly any wind anyway. But it was so cold that my face felt…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 23, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  chickens, chooks, cold, cow, diatomaceous earth, dogs, farming in the cold, giving blood, hens, sheep

• It rained and it was a good rain

  Shortly after the camera and I and a new friend took a tour of the grounds, the skies opened and it poured. Though the term the ‘skies opened’ is questionable. As we walked around the skies closed above us. Then lowered down.  There may have even been a string.  It became darker, cosier. Like a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 24, 2012

  Bees, Farming

  bees, blossoms, chickens, chooks, hens, magnolia, rain, rainclouds

• Life in the Fast, oops I mean SLOW, lane!

  Early spring is a period of waiting. I make my little seed pots from the seed catalogues. We sow the seeds and wait for the seeds to sprout.  We watch the weather each day and wait for it to be warm enough for all the seedlings to go outside into the sun.  (Also waiting for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 5, 2012

  Farming, Photography, The Farmy

  hens, paper pots, seedlings, sheep, sky with clouds, sleeping chicken, waiting

• sex on the farmy

  So let’s have a wander through the developing sustainable, self sufficient, old fashioned farm then. I will take you with me while I do my early morning chores. I jabbed Daisy on Monday with her hormone injection, the first of three. (We are trying for a baby.. cannot make cheese without milk, cannot make milk…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 18, 2011

  Farm Animals, Life, Living the life, Photography

  calves, chickens, cows, hens, kitty, lambs, self sufficient, small farms, sustainable