Tag: pigs

• Cojones

  

  (Is that a bad word? But it is the word I need). Slowly I settled back into the farm yesterday. I took a mental health day and decided not to talk to any humans. It was lovely. The sun was out and so was I. Look at our sleeping kune kune. The most entertaining pigs.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 31, 2015

  blogging, Farming, homesteading, Sustainable farming

  balls, cojones, kunekune, pigs, pigs feet, sleeping pigs, spring

• Cats in Hiding

  

  The kittens have heard that next week they are off to have their ‘operations.’  So they are exploring hiding places. I can still see you, you know.  Hide again. I can still see you this time too. Egoli quite likes riding in the car and wonders if he can take his perfectly healthy paw for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, barn cats, cats at play, celi, dutch belted cows, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• Spring Sounds

  

  As Gracie and I worked, yesterday morning, hauling out fork-fulls of winter bedding and spreading it across the corridor field,  flock after flock of geese flew overhead, crying out with their distinctive melancholic call. But they were flying North.  No need for melancholy.  They have decided that the warm-up is on its way.  I am…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, celi, farm photography, farming, glasshouse, heat, hereford pigs, pigs, pigs i heat, spring, standing heat, tane, The kitchen’s garden, Tima

• Garybuie

  

  Good morning my darling Fellowship, today we are off to Scotland to see Christine and wander about her wee farm.  She and her husband have  created a most amazing property plus a Bed and Breakfast if you are inclined to visit.  Most especially you may remember she painted a beautiful picture of Big Dog that hangs on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 17, 2015

  homesteading, Photography

  Bed and Breakfast, ducks, garybuie, pigs, skye

• Can you do without a weather report?

  

  I have been considering doing without a weather report as my next personal challenge.  But maybe not. At least not in the Mid Western Winter. There is some kind of storm in the offing for tonight but we will see.  And the sun shone all day yesterday. Every single animal on the farm was basking in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  dutch belted cows, godot, home again, kittens, kune kune, pigs, sun on the farm, tima and tane, white peacocks