Tag: spring

• 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

• 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

• Cleopatra is enthroned

  She had a rather low key arrival on the passenger seat of a rusty white courier van. Rather weirdly (and this happens to me so often I don’t often think about it anymore) I decided to walk the dogs to the end of the drive, which is something I almost never do and the rust…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 1, 2013

  Bees, homesteading, Life

  ayrshire cow on grass, beehives, bees, building a tiny house, installing a queen, spring, sun

• The Whisper of Spring’s Wing.

  Yesterday I was working in the barn for a while then came back out into the air and there it was. Warmth. There was no sun, and I was surrounded in snow, yet somehow there was a warm cast to the air. Of course it made no sense to the senses but it was there.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming, hope, peacocks, rooflines, sheila the hereford pig, sowing seeds, spring, sustainable farming