Tag: snow

• A drop. A Promise.

  We are surrounded in white on white, cold on cold, the hunch and squeak of boots on packed snow beginning to sound like fingernails on a black-board made for chalk.   The night before last was -11 (-23C), last night was -21( -30C).  As I write just before dawn the temperature  continues  on its toboggan…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 11, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cats in snow, farming in the deep cold, melting ice, pig in snow, sheep, snow, winter

• you did not believe me?

  Here, in my unheated bedroom. ICE on the inside of the double glazed windows. Makes me feel right at home. I have never lived in a house with heated bedrooms anyway.  Now whenever you see those silly christmas decorations with the sprayed-on ice around the glass, you can say. I don’t think you really want…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 8, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  ice on windows, pig, snow

• No shortage of Wild Things on the Farmy

  “Oh please don’t go.  We’ll eat you up … We love you so.” And Max said “NO.” from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak one of my favourite children’s books of all time. I never saw the movie, I loved the book that much.  I have read it to children so many times…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 6, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, bobble headed owl, cats and dogs playing, celi, dogs in snow, farming, homesteading, snow, The kitchen’s garden, where the wild things are

• Ploughed out – again

  I still love the snow. But I am always grateful when I see the snow-plough rushing down our little gravel road clearing a path for me. Sunday yesterday. A quiet day. Look at this naughty big fat pig following me around bossing everybody about. Her wound from the boar bite is not looking too good,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 3, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  facebook, pig and cows, snow, Sunday, thekitchens garden

• The snow stood still in the air.. thinking its little think

  The wind died  down yesterday. I don’t care how it died frankly, as long as it was gone. We all crept up out from behind our shelters, sniffing the air. The snow gently falling, in no hurry to go anywhere. Did you see Mama, she seldom comes out into the field nowadays. Preferring to stick…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 1, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  celi, farming in the cold, good morning, hereford pig, ice storm, sheep in snow, snow, the kitchens garden farm