Surprise Sally

Do you remember Norman Ashby? Many years ago, we fostered this sweet boy. He was adopted by a very nice family, and he's been living the good life in Gig Harbor, WA.

Haylie, Norman's human big sister, is celebrating her 14th birthday this summer, and her family thought a kitten would be the perfect gift for her.  So, her mom, dad, and brother came over to meet the Hollis Girls and pick out a kitten for Haylie.

 Evelyn and Henrietta had already been claimed, so they had their pick between Sally and Caroline.  They struggled with the decision, both kittens were so charming, but in the end, they decided that Sally would be the one. They thought she would be a good personality match for Norman, and they felt Sally would have been the one that Haylie would have picked.

Sally would be a surprise, so I asked Caden, Haylie's brother, if he could keep this big secret.

He quickly responded "I'm in sixth grade. I've got this".

And did he keep the secret?

No.

But that was fine. When they all came over to pick up Sally,  Haylie was thrilled with her gift.

How could she not be?  She got THIS adorable kitten for her 14th birthday.

 











Enjoy your sweet kitten, Haylie!  And enjoy your new sister, Norman!
Congratulations to the whole family on their new addition!

Puddles and Piles of Cuteness

Henrietta, Sally, Caroline and Evelyn were being extra, extra adorable.  They're pretty endearing any given moment of the day, but while in sleepy states this weekend, they managed  to work themselves into some impossibly cute piles, puddles and pairings.

They must have know that Monday was around the corner and thought some of their adorableness might make easing back into the work week a little easier.

I'm hoping this big batch of cute might be enough to hold you over through the week. You see, I've got a big, important work project that's taking me out of town this week. It's pretty rare that I take time off from blogging - I usually post from the road when traveling, which is always a challenge.   I know the days to come are going to be crazy and long, and it will be really difficult to carve out any time to create blog posts in the middle of all of that.  I've decided it might be best to put things on pause over here while I get through this week.   I'll probably put a photo or video or two up on Instagram, so if you need a little kitten fix, please visit HERE.

Thank you for understanding.  

Now, please sit back and enjoy the extreme cute.  

OH, the cute.

Hollis Girls, you are really something.

Purr, Purr, Purring

These Hollis girls have great motors. If they're sitting still or lightly sleeping, you can usually hear them idling. I've shared short clips of their purring on our Instagram account, but I know not everyone is using Instagram, so I strung together a few bits to share with you today on the blog.

Please enjoy their soothing sounds.


 

Pinned By Kittens

I'm having a hard time preparing this post because I've currently got a kitten draped over each wrist, one my shoulder,  and a wiggly one who keeps walking across my laptop keyboard.  Henrietta is the wiggly one and I just had to delete three lines of umlauts thanks to her.   She also paused long enough on the "delete" key to throw about thirty photos into the trash. Fortunately, I was able to retrieve them before they were lost for good.

Because I'm pinned by kittens, Wylla and Charlene just took advantage of the moment and tiptoed towards the kitten room for some crunchies.  I yelled  when I saw them heading that direction, they're so obvious when they're trying to be sneaky, but they ignored me. They did pause for a moment, Wylla  glanced in my direction, but did not make eye contact with me. She knew she was being naughty. She knew I knew. She knew I wouldn't get up and try to stop her, but I did yell again.

"Don't think I don't know what you two are up to!"

Two swishy tails waved goodbye and disappeared into the hall.  As I type this, I hear crunching.

Come treat time this afternoon, I will remind them of this infraction.


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I've got a set photos to share of our Hollis Girls being awfully adorable and sweet. They love getting cozy on the couch and burrowing into the throw pillows, and they look pretty cute doing it!

Putting on a Show

Those Hollis girls are  pretty good at entraining the passersby and they put on quite a show yesterday afternoon.  There was a fly trapped between the window and the shade and it was out of paw's reach.  They danced and paced on the windowsill,  and stretched and showed their belly spots and belly floof to the world as they tried to capture the fat, buzzing fly.

We have a lot of foot traffic down our street on Tuesday afternoons because we live close to the Farmers Market.  I saw lots of smiles pass our house, and many people pause.

A couple of weeks back, I was at the Farmers Market with Wylla  and started chatting with a stranger about cats, then fostering.  A few minutes into the conversation she said "OH, you live in the house with all the kittens in the window!"

Yep, that's us. The house with all the kittens in the window.   : )