Tag: lettuce

• Lady Astor’s Bosom

  

  I love that word BOSOM. Don’t you?. It sounds so soft and pillowy. It even sounds good said out loud. “Lady Astors Bosom”. So matronly.  Comfy.  Though if you were to lay your head upon Lady Astors bosom you are liable to get a kick in said head.  Sometimes I rest my head against her…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 14, 2016

  Photography

  cows, girls, lettuce, meat chickens, pigs, udder health

• Put on your jacket, Mum is cold.

  Do you remember that saying? Something like ‘jackets are things for kids to wear when their mothers are cold’. Well when The Matriarch came out to the farm yesterday (and it was awfully cold yesterday – snow flurries even), she saw that The Big Dog’s coat had been removed last week  when we all thought…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Vegetable Gardens

  garlic, jackets for dogs, lettuce, planting tomatoes, spring rains, still cold, tomato covers

• BLT with Country Cheese

  In the summer, once the tomatoes begin to ripen, we eat bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on freshly made bread every Friday, for as long as the tomatoes last. Now, you think one would get tired of them wouldn’t you. But we don’t.  Every Friday they are a little different. Yesterday I cooked the bacon…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 30, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  and tomato, bacon, lettuce, sandwich, storms

• Lilacs for the Loo

  In all the best partnerships a person settles into the niche that they excell at and develops his or her skills in there. John’s niche is the walled vegetable garden. It was not always like this. I used to do all the vegetables but then came the animals and the manure and the compost! Well…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 30, 2012

  Vegetable Gardens

  chives, gardening, leeks, lettuce, lilacs, out house, radishes