FRANCIS'S BLOG 04/18/2026
Breezy Monday 🐴
Pumpkin holes up in the nesting box to keep out of the wind:
If anyone wants to lay an egg, they’ll have to wait. 🐔
Ice is not nice! 🐴
The young ducks don’t know what to think of the “chunks” in their water this morning.
Pooter, Paschal and L’Orange have seen it all before. 🐴
Only 37℉ this morning 🙀
There’s only two things to do when it’s cold:
(1) Find a warm car hood.
(2) Make a lot of paw prints! 😺
Winter’s coming 🐴
The blackbirds are having a meeting:
I guess they’re deciding when to start flying South. 🐦
Sunny afternoon Wednesday and sunny morning today! ☀️
Yesterday morning was cold and gloomy, but it was warm and sunny by afternoon:
As you can see, I’m having a quiet drink by myself while everyone else is still in the field.
What a nice day! 🐴
It’s a cold, cloudy Wednesday 🐴
There’s not much going on this morning, except that it’s dreary and only 41℉. So here are some cats-and-boxes pictures, just for the heck of it:
😺
Rainy, windy Tuesday! 🐴
Patsy has an ecological crisis!
An old McDonald’s coffee creamer is stuck on her bill! 🙀
Edina and Patrick chase her around, trying to help her get it off. 🙀
Don’t worry, she eventually shook it off (although she did miss breakfast). 😺
Cats love boxes 😺
Security Chief Schrödinger discovers some suspicious, unattended boxes:
He investigates:
Finn is in for a surprise!
😺
Sorry there was no post yesterday. I was having software issues. 🐴
It’s a nasty, rainy Sunday. But we can’t complain: we’ve had so many lovely days in the far pasture this week. 🐎
We’ll appreciate these days while they last! 🐴
Breakfast time! 😺
Major Tom is halfway through his breakfast:
But poor Schrödinger is still waiting for someone to open his can:
You’ll get help soon, Schroeder! 🐴
Very autumnal Thursday 🐴
We haven’t been in the front pasture for three days, so there should be some new grass to eat (in addition to our hay, of course). 🐎
Stormy gets a ride 🐎
Mary visited this morning, and Stormy got an unexpected ride:
From the look on Stormy’s face, he’d rather be out in the far pasture with the rest of us. 🐎
The sun is shining! ☀️
It’s chilly this morning, only 41℉, but the sun is finally shining! ☀️
The cats are happy! 😺
The horses are happy! 🐎
I’m happy! 🐴
Nasty rain and scary lightning all last night, and windy today 🐴
Kanna is posted on roof lookout this morning:
Don’t get blown off, Kanna! 🙀
It’s so windy! 😺
It’s pouring this morning 🐴
It’s pouring right now. . .
But luckily it held off long enough for us to finish breakfast. 🐎
Mouse matters 🐭
I don’t know what to think of our cats anymore. 🐴
Once they catch a mouse, nobody seems to know what to do with it. 🐴
Pumpkin says, “I know what to do with it!” 😺
”Munch it down!” 😺
I’m glad the older cats are around to teach the younger cats basic survival skills. 🐴
It rained yesterday and all last night 🐴
Yesterday it was so rainy we had our dinner hay in the stable:
But luckily this morning is just cloudy, so we get to go out to the far pasture. 🐴
Everybody works 😺
Evil Cat takes his turn watching the ducks:
He has to make sure no single duck hogs all the mealworms. 😺
Sunny autumn afternoon 🐎
This past Sunday afternoon, Mary, Mara and our new friend, Elizabeth, took Stormy, Iris and Chezzie on a trail ride all over Farmer Rich’s fields. 🐎
Patrick gets some sympathy 🦆
Patrick tells Ann how the other ducks have been chasing him around and messing up his pretty back feathers:
Ann tells Patrick that they’re just jealous because he’s the most colorful:
(Notice how Patrick is keeping an eye on that big bag of mealworms!)
Lucky Iris 🐎
Iris is getting ridden this morning, so she’s munching down in the riding circle:
Save some for us, Iris. 🐎
Anybody need a ride? 🐴
Finn is back from the vet, but she has to stay in the tac room for a day or so. Here I am, a couple days ago, giving her a ride:
When you’re all better, Finn, you can ride me again. 🐴
Sick kitty! 🙀
Poor Finn has an abscess under her tail. So, she’s off to the vet:
Brother Noodle is keeping her company until it’s time to go:
Get well, Finn! 🐴
A little rain this morning 🐴
Stormy welcomes Nimbus back to the farm:
Yesterday we coaxed her out of the stable:
She even ate dinner by the tac room:
But she didn’t stay long. 😾
Cloudy Tuesday 🐎
Misty takes a drink and checks out the gold fish.
You’ll need your fly mask today, Misty. 🐴
Warm Monday morning 🐎
After a weekend of grazing in the far pasture, we’re spending today out front:
Apparently Chavez and RC didn’t get the memo:
They’ll figure it out. 🐴
Doing time 🐴
Here I am waiting to get released for the morning (check here to see why my parole was revoked):
At least I’ll get new bedding for tonight, after Mara and Mary cleaned out my stall. 🐴