Tag: pigs

• Good morning

  I am having a quiet blog day today. I went down to the local pub last night,when I got home a great weariness descended upon me and this morning my brain hurts.  I hope you all have a lovely day. Marcel is very active, putting on weight making lots of noise but he still is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 23, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  blogging, lamb not pooping, peahens, pigs, tired

• Do you really want to live sustainably – self sufficiently?

  Sustainable is not only about food. It is also about lifestyle. Our house is heated by a wood stove. (We only use trees that have fallen in storms or been culled by farmers.)  This means that only one area of the house is heated, the rest is just .. well .. cold. I lay in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cats and cows, cows, farming, pigs, sustainable farming

• How do you open a door?

  I have always wondered this.  How do you open a door? Do you step up turn the doorknob, push the door in a little,  just wide enough to slip through, then shut it behind you.  This is what I do in the winter. In the summer the doors are open wide all day and all…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  chickens in a barn, heifers, peahen in a bin, pigs, pregnant cows

• Meet Al: The Berkshire Boar

  When the time came for Sheila to break out the lippie and hop the limo  to visit the Boar, she very quietly followed me onto the trailer, was driven 15 minutes down the road and very quietly unloaded herself. No fuss. Not interested in her treats at all. But very interested in all these little…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 19, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photgraphy, berkshire boar, berkshire hereford cross, boar, drifts, gilt, hereford gily, hogs, photography, pigs, snow, snow storm

• Photo-less friday and Sheila has a date.

  I know people have posts called Wordless Wednesday, and really it is Saturday though we are commenting on Friday, and I am never short of words but sometimes short of photos so it is Photo-less Friday on a Saturday.  It all gets so confusing.  Poor us living in the past with our pleasantly addled brains.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 18, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  berkshire hereford cross, farm photography, farming, hogs, pigs, the, The kitchen’s garden