Tag: homesteading

• Guess who has come home!

  I got up before dawn yesterday morning, after a night fretting about Sheila and decided to bring her home. That is that, I thought. Bad weather was coming again. She was not well. I told the nice young fella that I was worried about the limping and her wound and I might come and take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2014

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, Beautiful cows, bringing home Sheila, cows, farm photography, hereford pig, homesteading, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• Sheila says, No Thank You

  I thought I wanted to go for a walk, Sheila said, but now I don’t. The puddles are too deep and I can’t swim, she said.  And my feet are cold.  Let’s go back home, she said and have our peanut butter treats inside and so we did. Snow is not always white either, we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animal photography, celi, hereford pigs, homesteading, photography, pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• Your voice echoes when there is snow in the clouds

  Yesterday it snowed again. But it was a gentle sweet silent snow that did not last too long. But the clouds sat heavy. Heavy clouds breathing light snow. Like kind gods. A benevolent uncle kind of snow. I set about trapping and catching the frostbitten chickens who had run off to the barn before the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat playing with dog, chickens roosters, cows, dog playing with cat, farming in the deep cold, frostbite on chickens combs, homesteading, old barn, rooster, snow in the country, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• A one legged rooster is not really one legged

  The chooks, roosters and the guineas swap feet when they are standing in the cold, one foot up, then that foot down and  then another foot up,  like a wee boy in his thin pajamas showing too much ankle on the cold bathroom floor desperately waiting for the toilet. Hurry UUUUP! His feet taking turns…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, cows, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• Frozen rain falls like sharp stones

  Do you know that sharp gravel that you  can buy by the truck load? For the drive. The lane. The track.  Men buy it because the bashed up rock wants to snap back together and form a pointy barbed stony mat. Women would rather buy the soft rounded stones that are gentle on bare summer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 22, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photography, farming, farming by yourself, homesteading, life, The kitchen’s garden