Tag: snow

• Struggling to Farm in the deep cold and driving snow

  Yesterday the snow and the wind fought it out all day and into the night.  The umpire fled, the cheerleaders bolted. The game deteriorated into a brawl. It was all about hard faced driving snow.  Snow piling up just where you want to walk, then blowing itself up into, around and ahead of the next…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 6, 2014

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Artic Vortex, farming in extreme cold, high winds, snow, Storms in the midwest

• The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.

  Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  cold, dogs in snow, farming in freezing temperatures, how to keep a pig warm, ice, pigs in snow, snow

• The first Snow of the Winter

  I was most definitely not ready for having an entire day below freezing in November.   Though I just checked the blog post for this date exactly a year ago and it was only marginally warmer.  So why am I surprised. Though no snow then. This is Boos first time seeing snow and as predicted…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 13, 2013

  homesteading, nanowrimo, Photography, Vines and Wine, Writing

  animals in the snow, autumn in the snow, farming, Nanowrimo, snow, writing

• The receding snow line

  Sorry had to say it – because the snow is receding as slowly as an old man’s hair to reveal a bald man’s pate. A moonscape. Beige with a hint of sepia is still the colour of the day.     John is in Missouri, where they have green grass under their snow by the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  animal photography, farm photography, hereford heifer, lambs in the snow, snow

• Can pigs get morning sickness?

  Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering.  Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn cat, old barn, pigs, pregnant pig, snow, snow pictures