Tag: homesteading

• MELTING

  

  The good news is that the ice in the blue insulated water trough that froze solid last week melted enough for us to be able to hook out the faulty water heater and jam a new one in.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2019

  Photography

  animal photography, countrylife, farm photography, farming, featured, homesteading, The kitchen’s garden

• SNOW COMING

  

  As you and I browse through these sunny bucolic farmyard photos from yesterday snow clouds are gathering to the east today. They are forecasting a few inches coming in tonight, but we will see. Snow is moody and prone to changing its mind.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2019

  Photography

  animal photography, Barn, countrylife, farm photography, farming, featured, hereford pigs, homesteading, pigs, snow, weather

• HIDING IN A BUSH

  

  We have windy wet weather today. Still in the Hawkes Bay winter, I come from Hawkes Bay in New Zealand and our Illinois weather is so much like home that I am wondering how they cope with this infernal mud!

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2019

  Photography

  animal photography, Barn, celi, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, hereford pigs, homesteading, weather

• A QUESTION FOR YOU

  So, I am writing a lesson plan this week for my course in teaching English as a Second Language. I have a question for you.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 3, 2019

  Photography

  blogging, countrylife, farm photography, farming, farmlife, featured, homesteading, weather

• POURING UP

  Yesterday was sunny and warm – a good day for shoveling the proverbial and getting things in order. Today I awake to pouring down rain – though it would look pretty silly if it was pouring UP. Below is my work of the day. I am taking a big rubbish bag out and cleaning up…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 31, 2018

  Photography

  celi, countrylife, farm photography, farming, featured, homesteading, weather