Tag: The kitchen’s garden

• Periscope Pig

  Sheila lives in the Corridor Paddock and sleeps in the Sun Room of the barn. But when she lays down she makes sure that her snout is poking through the gate that leads  to the corridor in the barn.  Like a short stout periscope. Her nose is always sure to get a wee scratch as…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 30, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  hens on grass, life, photography, pigs in mud, pigs snout, raising chickens in a chicken tractor, raising meat chickens, The kitchen’s garden

• A Mystery object – Can you Guess?

  Here are some clues! It is heavy. And a little rusty but not where it matters. It was for sale and now it’s not! Getting warmer? Now are you getting warmer? Yes. A hay elevator. I have never seen one before either. It is old but beautiful. And even better it has a motor that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 24, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour

  celi, farm machinery, farm photography, farming, hay elevator, old hay elevator, rusty metal, The kitchen’s garden

• Boys and Chicks

  I love having children on the farm. Just having fun. After the mandatory swim, this fellow gathers eggs, feeds the cats, (Egoli was found at his house so he always brings him and Tiba a little pot of food each).  He picks tomatoes in the gardens then settles down with a little jar of dried…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 13, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Preserving

  Apple Butter, boy swimming, celi, chicks, photography, The kitchen’s garden, tomatoes

• Desperately Seeking Beautiful

  I looked for loveliness yesterday and found it everywhere. BooBoo doing his best to be lovely! Big Dog is always lovely. I find peacock feathers in the strangest places. Only the short ones now, all Kupa’s long feathers are in a vase catching the morning sun through the windows. Charlotte is trying her best to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  appples, celi, dog photography, dogs, hereford sow, life on a farm, peacock feathers, The kitchen’s garden

• The Man at the Gate

  The man was well dressed and nervous. He was standing on my lawn blocked by barking dogs as I stepped out onto the verandah. “Alright if I give treats to your dogs?” He called out with his back to the shiny late model city slick car. ‘Down’  I signalled and both dogs dropped like stones…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Stories, Vines and Wine

  excalibur dehydrator, farming for health, health insurance, muddy pigs, The kitchen’s garden, tomato basil jam, wine, writing