Tag: The kitchen’s garden

• Sheila says, No Thank You

  I thought I wanted to go for a walk, Sheila said, but now I don’t. The puddles are too deep and I can’t swim, she said.  And my feet are cold.  Let’s go back home, she said and have our peanut butter treats inside and so we did. Snow is not always white either, we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2014

  Farm Animals, Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animal photography, celi, hereford pigs, homesteading, photography, pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• Your voice echoes when there is snow in the clouds

  Yesterday it snowed again. But it was a gentle sweet silent snow that did not last too long. But the clouds sat heavy. Heavy clouds breathing light snow. Like kind gods. A benevolent uncle kind of snow. I set about trapping and catching the frostbitten chickens who had run off to the barn before the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cat playing with dog, chickens roosters, cows, dog playing with cat, farming in the deep cold, frostbite on chickens combs, homesteading, old barn, rooster, snow in the country, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Frostbite on Barn Chickens

  Still cold. Do you see Daisy’s breath? First  something pretty: The Old Codger has given me his snow shoes .. aren’t they wonderful. When I walk the dogs across the snow in the morning I shall be wearing these .  I look forward to our morning walk. And now for something not so pretty. The…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 9, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  Ayrshire cow, Barn, celi, chickens with frostbite, cows, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, frostbite on chickens, The kitchen’s garden, winter farming

• Sundogs – like bookends for a frozen day.

  Yesterday was officially freezing.  Real freezing cold. Not that fake cold when your dressing gown is in the dryer and you have to run to the toilet in your nightie and the toilet seat is cold and you shiver and say God that is cold. No, this was real cold. Razer cold that shaves at…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 7, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  Barn, celi, chickens, farm photography, farming, farming in the cold, sun dogs, sundogs, sunrise, sunset, The kitchen’s garden

• A one legged rooster is not really one legged

  The chooks, roosters and the guineas swap feet when they are standing in the cold, one foot up, then that foot down and  then another foot up,  like a wee boy in his thin pajamas showing too much ankle on the cold bathroom floor desperately waiting for the toilet. Hurry UUUUP! His feet taking turns…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, cows, farm photography, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, sheep, The kitchen’s garden