Tag: straw

• THE BARN

  

  Did I tell you that our insurance company has taken the barn off their list and will not insure it anymore?  Is it insure or ensure? I must look that up. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 13, 2017

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography

  cold, farm animals, farming, kunekune, old barn, pig houses, pigs, straw, weather

• BROKE IT

  

  Broke the barn door.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 31, 2017

  Farm Animals, Farming, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  calf, countrylife, cows, farming, farmlife, featured, hay, straw

• The positives …

  

  … about being below freezing for so long. And there are positives, it cannot possibly be all bad. Not in Our World anyway.  There are lots of good things. The pigs get a warm breakfast of soaked alfalfa cubes, garlic, kitchen scraps  and molasses.  It actually looks pretty tasty.. if you are a pig. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 19, 2014

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  alliteration, Christmas Calendars, good morning, living in the cold, peacocks, sheeplife, straw

• The last of the summer work

  Kupa resumes his role at the top of the totem pole. Speaking of poles the cats are using the resting clatter box as a pathway to the loft. No more climbing the ladder for them! The chook house was cleaned out. John took over once he saw what I was about and he spread the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 5, 2013

  homesteading, Life

  cats in the barn, chickens, cleaning out the chook house, hay, peacock, straw, The Duke of Kupa

• Getting Re-Antiquated

  I know that  heading (above) makes no sense but I have a challenge that once I have written my title  I must keep it. Sometimes the weirdest phrases and re-spellings get  stuck in  my head.  I am very grateful that you are all the kind of kind people who bear with the slight eccentricities that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 28, 2012

  Farming, Life, Photography

  compost, farming, hay, hereford pigs, house cow, milking, mucking out, peacock nests, peacocks, straw, sustainable farming, wine