A tight fit 🐎, and a Chick Flick! 🐥
“Good morning, everyone! Francis asked Stormy, me, and Rosie to squeeze together and pose, just for YOU!” ❤️
Good job, RC! I don’t want our friends to forget that you three love them as much as I do!
Ann, Sophie, Anya and Mary love you, too!
They made a chick video for you! 🐥
It’s a little over 3 minutes long, but there are a lot of cute, closeup chick antics!
Wing feathers are growing by the hour! 😺
Never eat anything unless you know exactly what it is (and a trailcam video)!
“Good morning! Before you come in, I want to warn you NOT to kiss Francis!”
I’m deeply hurt, RC! Who on the farm is more kissable than ME?
“Don’t worry, Francis. You are indeed the ‘fairest of them all,’ but you’re nuzzling poison ivy. It shouldn’t hurt your skin, like it does the cat-cops, but it could irritate your tummy.” 
Say no more, RC. I’ll hee-haw until management cuts it down!
Anyway, you know we told you on May 15 and May 16 that we think we’ve got a beaver trying to dam up our creek:
So, we put up a trail camera to see what happens when we’re all asleep. Did we see any beavers?
Nope! Just a pair of swimming raccoons (who we’re pretty sure don’t build dams). The first raccoon is at the very beginning, and the second one is at the 12 second mark. 🦝
Oh my! The new chicks aren’t the only babies around here! 🐴
Good morning! Happy Friday!
The chicks have the run of the coop and are fluttering up on everything:
Finally, Eva, the one cat the cat-cops can’t catch, has blessed us again:
This isn’t the best picture, because it was taken from a video, but you get the point:
Two baby kitties (at least. . .we’ll let you know if we see more)! 😺😺
Kitty capers 😺!
“Good morning! Tux and I are just waking up.”
Good job, Marbles. I’m getting a brushing before I head out:
Dad (we’ve decided to call him Dad because he looks like Tux) is still playing “scaredy-cat:”
“Don’t go away without letting us say ‘Good morning,’ too!”
Nice to hear from you, Greg, Tiger and Tyrus—or should I call you the “Bathoom brigade?” 🙀
It’s chilly on the chicks 🐥
Good morning! I have a blue sky, just for you!
Now guys, you can tell very well that bag is empty:
“We know, we just like the smell.”
If you say so. . .
Anyway, it’s only if the 50’s right now, so the chicks are huddled under the heat lamp. At close to two weeks old, they need to be kept at a cozy 85-90℉:
However, fresh food and water brings them over to eat, drink and socialize:
Then it’s right back to the “tropic zone:”
It will be 90 degrees everywhere in a couple of months, chicks—I can wait! 🐴
The cats had an enormous guest for breakfast (video) 🙀
Good morning! More rain, more mud; but the sun is shining, you’re here, and the grass is green:
“All the brushing I’ve been getting is bringing out my palimino color.”
“That’s nice, RC. I’ve been getting brushed, too, and my red roan ‘freckles’ are popping.”
“You and RC are both looking extra fancy, Rose. . .”
“But I want to watch the video of this supposedly enormous breakfast guest.” 🐎
I’m with you, Stormy. 🐴
Wow, mamma (we think) raccoon is twice as big as Tux! 🐴
Mini checks out the “buffet” (video) 😺
Good morning! It poured all night:
“Good morning, Francis and everyone. Patches and I are watching the swallows.”
“Don’t try to catch one, Tux. You’ll fall off the pole.”
Anyway, kitties, I have some pretty chick pictures the cat-cops have told me to show our friends, and a video, too. 🐴
Apparently, the chicks like clover and clover blossoms along with their store-bought food:
Above we have a buff orpington and a silver-laced wyandotte—and below we have a Rhode Island red:
And here’s one of the Barred rocks:
Finally. . .
Here’s a video of Mini checking them out:
Keep those paws outside the bars, Mini. 😺
A bird’s eye view of birds (🐣 video)
Good morning! Oh, great!—more “buzzards.” I hear Ann bought 15 chicks, Onslow. How do they look?
“Delicious!—I mean, ‘cute.’”
“Anyway, Francis, we apparently are now the proud owners of the following breeds:” 
“*Silver-laced wyandotte, *Rhode Island red, *Buff orpington, and *Barred rock.”
“Let’s watch the little ‘chicken nuggets’ in action:”
“They’ll be running around the yard as soon as they’re too big to eat!” 😾
Break out the spray 🐴 (and a creek and raccoon video)!
Good morning! It’s that time of the year again. . .
Time to get fly-sprayed:
I see Betty’s doing what cats do best:
Here’s a video of the creek “blockage” that we talked about yesterday. I’ll get the cat-cops to see if they can set up the trail cam. If we’re lucky, it might catch who’s responsible:
Finally, it looks like the cats are having company for breakfast:
🦝
Raccoons may not be the only critters around here 🙀
Good morning!
On a sad note, that poor raccoon we’ve been telling you about went peacefully to Raccoon Heaven 😿😿😿:
So sad, but at least it had one of our cat boxes for a bed. 😿
Speaking of raccoons, we have a very healthy one helping itself to cat food:
The cat food in question was what Buttons was eating:
“I’m glad the weather’s a little warmer today, Francis. On some mornings this haircut leaves me a little chilly.” 😾
And we’re not sure if these sticks are natural debris. . .
Or maybe the work of a beaver or a muskrat?
If we find out, you’ll be the first to know! 🐴
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