Still Waiting

Every day I wake up thinking "This will be the day!"

Really, one of these days it WILL happen, and when it does, we're ready. The room is tidy and clean. The cage is all set up with fresh bedding and linens. The dishes are in place.  Big cats are wandering in and out looking for kittens and kitten food.

All we need is some kittens.

I know you've met these kittens before, our precious Hollis Girls,  but maybe you've forgotten about this video.  It's nice and long and filled with plenty of bouncing and pouncing.  It made me giggle, and I'm guessing it will do the same for you.  Enjoy!




And should we get the call today, I'm sure you'll hear my giant SQUEE.  I'll also let you know on social media, too!

It's gotta happen. It just has to happen today.

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UPDATE:
9:44 AM

BREAKING NEWS! Kittens WILL be arriving this afternoon!  We'll post a pic when they are here!!!

The Most Popular Posts Part Four!

Good morning, friends. We're continuing today with our big countdown of the fifty most popular IBKC posts!  Today, we're cracking the top twenty!

#20  Two Thumbs Up! 
I think this is the earliest post to make the top fifty list, and probably the IBKC image that has been shared more than any other.  It was featured on Cute Overload, which really put us on the map.  Prior to the CO feature,  we got got maybe a hundred visitors a day, but on the day this was posted, we had 13,000 visitors.  It's the reason why many of you found our way to us.



#19 My Apologies Charlene
I'm sure she hates this post as much as I love it, but dang, Charlene, you know I had to share it. And now, I'm sharing it again, because so many of you loved this, too.  Sorry, Bean.



#18 Kitten Clown Car
Those Von Tussles just keep on coming!





#17 Four Years! Really?

When we celebrated our 4th blogiversary, we took a look back.



#16 Such a Tolerant Bean
Poor Bean! This one has been shared a squillion times. It landed on Love Meow, Cute Overload, and I Can Has Cheezburger, too.




#15 I'm Their Mother, She's My Sister, He's My Brother
It was a very exciting day when we broke this news!



#14 Better
This one one of the most challenging times in our fostering history. Wylla and Audrey's brother had passed from a virus, and we were so worried about the well-being of the girls. Fortunately, things began looking up for the girls, and we all breathed a sigh of relief.

 

#13 Pantalones De Loco x Four
They look so innocent here, but click on the link and watch the video. CRAZY PANTS!



#12 Stepping Out With Wylla Stout - Sweater Shopping!
When Wylla was wee, the poor girl got cold so easy, she wore sweaters when she stepped out. Here she is on a sweater shopping excursion.



 #11 The Saddest Day

We've been very fortunate that in these 9 years of fostering, we've only lost a few kittens.  These sad posts always come with many sweet, thoughtful, comforting words from all of you.  

 

Tomorrow will visit our top ten posts. What do you think will be number one?  Share your guesses, won't you?

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.   : )