Tag: sleeping pigs

• Pouring Up

  

    Someone has a milk mustache. I once nursed a very old lady called Maisy.  I was very young – in my teens – dressed all in white, working in an old folks home.  She was very old, round with sparse white comb over hair and wore green nightgowns. I always thought she looked a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 1, 2016

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cow and calf, Dexters, humour, milk cow, sleeping pigs

• The White Truck

  

  Now that it is colder I need the white truck to transport me and the dogs and the pigs food and waters across to the West Barn. Of course I am usually carrying 6 x 5 gallon buckets  of water. But yesterday was warmer and the faucets were working so I did not need to fill…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 22, 2016

  Farm Animals, Farming, Life, Photography

  farm truck, heifer, peahens, skies, sleeping 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

• Sheila Snores

  

  Did you know that? She is a great old snorer. Though you will only hear the snoring if you creep very, very quietly into the barn with ears at the ready. Pigs have incredibly good hearing.  And the moment they hear a sound out of the ordinary they jump sideways then freeze and listen. This is why…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farm animal photography, old barns, pigs snore, roosters in the barn, sheila, sleeping pigs, snow on the farm, thekitchensgarden