Tag: life on a farm

• caught red-handed, I mean red lipped – with her hand, I mean head in..

  Sheila got out while I was moving the chicks into their Ark. Ton went into high alert. The first I saw she was munching the dregs of the dropped apples  under the Apple Pie Apple tree.  As laid back and nonchalant as you please. Lumbering about. Then when I returned with a bucket of feed…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 25, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  chicken tractor, chicks in an ark, hay elevator, how does a hay elevator work, life on a farm, pigs on the loose, Sheila escapes

• Desperately Seeking Beautiful

  I looked for loveliness yesterday and found it everywhere. BooBoo doing his best to be lovely! Big Dog is always lovely. I find peacock feathers in the strangest places. Only the short ones now, all Kupa’s long feathers are in a vase catching the morning sun through the windows. Charlotte is trying her best to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  appples, celi, dog photography, dogs, hereford sow, life on a farm, peacock feathers, The kitchen’s garden

• An escape waiting to happen.

  Do you see the little left hoof of the middle piglet? Yes, he is thinking about climbing through. I better fatten him up quick so he cannot fit. They are getting harder to take photos of, as the moment they see me they race over to see what I have got. Every morning I cut…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 22, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  forsythia for animals, life on a farm, permaculture on the farm, piglets, prunings for sheep and cows, sustainable living