Tag: sheep

• The Mists of Writing while Walking the Boundaries.

  Mama the policeman will have something to say about that.  Every photograph, though taken on the same day, has slightly different light and is viewed differently by each reader. This is why every writer has something viable to say.  Some might say: Mama you are looking fat. Others might think she is looking a little…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 3, 2013

  Farming, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  barn in snow, cats, old barns, sheep, writing, writing desk

• Cold wind blowing

  .A cold day is fine. Or should I say a fine cold day is fine. But a cold day,  though not too cold with a high of 29F (-1C),  but with low slate gray clouds and a relentless wind becomes uncomfortable. Yesterday it  snowed on and off and blew without enthusiasm.  So we worked in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 30, 2012

  Farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows, hereford heifer, mastitis, milking cows, sheep

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

  And here we are back on the farmy. After an uneventful and long, long  couple of flights to Chicago from Auckland, I was whisked away from the madding crowds of  airport people, with all its suspicion and controlled chaos and driven back to the howling prairies. The wind has been blowing out of the North…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography, Travel

  Barn, cows, farm life, Illinois, pigs, sheep

• Multi tasking would be better as a monotask

  This is the result of multi tasking. Do not mix trying not to repack, simmering a redwine reduction for tonight’s pasta, making a homemade pizza for lunch, cleaning out the fridge, stamping cards and making the Final List, plus cleaning the basement laundry when I really should have been tidying the bedroom.  A beautiful crust,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 2, 2012

  Farming, Travel

  cows, food, homemade pizza, peacock, sheep, The kitchen’s garden

• Why isn’t the list getting any Shorter?

  Yesterday I reordered the order, and all the animals went in and out of the barn with ease and no escapes. So now the pens are all sorted out for the period that I am away. It is very lucky that pigs do not have digits or at the very least Daisy’s height. They would…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 24, 2012

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  dawn, Made in America, Made in china, old barn, pig face, sheep, Shopping, the old barn