FRANCIS'S BLOG 06/07/2026 


Privacy, please 🐴

Good morning!  We had heavy rain overnight.  So I’m sure the weed growth will shift into hyper-drive: “Good, more places to hide in!”If you say so, little baby kitty—just don’t hide from the cat-cops and worry them. 😿

I’m sorry it’s such a slow news day.  But I can show you the chicks enjoying their backyard:It’s only 9AM, but they’re already looking for shade. 🐥

Anyway, if you know something about horse or donkey standing positions, you know what I need to do:So please, turn your head. 🐴

Kittens are growing up (2 videos) 😺

Good morning!  I’m about to get “gunned down” with fly spray:Apparently some of us don’t like waiting to be fed:

The kittens have discovered grown-up cat food:

But they still get their “baby food” (Goo-Tubes):

Isn’t it nice to see Eva joining her kittens for breakfast! 😺

Here’s a video lesson in the language of Chicken! 🐔

Good morning!  I’ll forgive the cat-cops for setting the food scoop on me today, because they’re cleaning and refilling my water tank:Hey Luna!  Wake up for breakfast!Here’s a baby, finishing up a drop of Goo-Tube.  For breakfast and dinner they get 3-4 of them squeezed into a dish (Mamma Eva is still nursing them as well ❤️):Here’s our Dukie checking out the chicks:Marbles is intrigued, too. . .You’re still a cat in the dog house, Marbles, for running away from home! 😾

Finally, here’s an Easter-egger telling an olive-egger to hurry up and lay her egg:

“This egg will hatch before I can lay it!” 🐔

Where on earth did you go, you bad cat! 😾

Good morning!  I’m feeling good and looking better!I picked this flower just for YOU!Yesterday I told you Eva moved her kittens from under the pallet beside the hay barn, to under the hay barn by all the weeds.  Well, today, she’s moved them right back.  It’s just as well, because up here they’re easier to feed:Anyway, here is a picture of a very bad Marbles, who has been missing for 5 whole days!  When the cat-cops worry, everybody worries!Oh well, Marbles—get something to eat and don’t disappear again:I don’t know where you were, but nobody can have better food than Ann’s Horse Farm! 🐴

Chicks 🐥 and kittens 😺 on the move (video)!

Oh, I didn’t see you come in!  Good morning!Oh, good, I’m getting breakfast first today!Buttons has caught a sparrow:The chicks’ outside pen got moved around to the back door of the coop.  It’s secure enough where they’ll soon be able to spend the day outside unattended:And yesterday Eva moved the kittens under the hay barn.  Here’s one (being very hard to see):

They also now have a jungle of weeds to explore. . .

But they’re making it harder for the cat-cops to give them food and water. 😾


Betty on duty! 😺

Good morning!  Rose and I are on our way to the gate for peppermint hearts 💕:And the chicks are getting some sun while Ann is cleaning out their coop (one of the olive eggers is “supervising”):Why are you all clumped together now, chicks?Oh, I see. . !Don’t worry, Assistant Security Chief Betty is just there to guard you (or so she says)! 😺

Bowl Biter (2 videos) 🙀

Good morning!  We’re getting a little rain:And the clouds are keeping us cooler:Eva has moved the kittens under the little pallet by the hay barn:The cat-cops haven’t tried to pick them up yet, but they aren’t shy, and bowls can be placed right in front of them. . .

Baby starts out ok, but then starts biting the bowl.  Believe it or not, we’ve seen other kittens do this:

Don’t worry, he gets the hang of it:

Now-now, Patches, you’ve had your breakfast already! 😾

Wrestling kitties! 😺

Good morning!  Let’s hope for a little rain tomorrow:“I say ‘Good morning!’ too!”Good for you, little kitten, you already know to show love to our friends! ❤️

Here’s a video of you and your “twin” siblings ‘rough-housing:’

What fun! 😺

Pretty little puffs 😺

Good morning!  Here we are, hanging around RC’s stall—just gabbing and eating his spillage.  I think it’s the cat-cop equivalent of “hanging around the water cooler:”Well, guess who’s playing peek-a-boo! What pretty, baby-blue eyes!“I hope Mommy leaves a little of that creamy stuff for me.”A little Goo-Tube squeezed in a dish makes the perfect “kitten’s first food.” 😺

Bat check! 🦇

Let’s start with a video of me coming out of my stall. . .

. . .to say Good morning to YOU! 🐴

And these 2 bats are glad to see you, too!Did you know bats take offense to the expression “blind as a bat?”  Bats can see quite well—don’t let anybody tell you different! 🦇

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