2021 in Review

I’ve been looking back through my planners and notebooks to see what I’ve accomplished this year. I finished 12 knitting projects, which was exactly my goal! They are: Lotus Ring Mackenzie Less is More Cozumel Legolas Socks Pirra Necklaces Whitman Hat Charade Socks Hermione Socks Sybil’s Christmas Stocking I also finished one other top secret…

Caturday: Biscuit

Remember the British Bakes? Well, we adopted Biscuit, the mama cat. I know, I know that means we have EIGHT cats now, but honestly, is eight so much harder than seven? My reasoning was this: Biscuit was just sitting at the shelter not getting adopted because they had to put a “no small children” warning…

Caturday: Tilly

Meet Tilly (full name Matilda). She is one of our youngest cats at 6 years old. She was the one who basically started us on our foster journey. We found her as a kitten in our neighbor’s yard. It’s kind of a funny story how that happened. Our fence was old and had some missing…

Caturday: Vikings

The last litter of the year have all been adopted, so I can finally write about them! We picked up a litter of four 10 day old kittens and a mom on October 9. The kittens were chonks already! Remember Matt, the gray kitten with all the health problems? They were the same size at…

Caturday: Ivan

Meet Ivan. He came to us as a stray about five years ago. We had been trapping some of the feral cats who lived behind our fence for about a year and came across this guy who looked nothing like the brown tabby Maine Coon mixes that comprised the rest of the colony. We asked…

Caturday: Finn Edition

Happy Caturday! Today’s post is featuring Finnegan who has been to the vet this week. He wasn’t feeling himself – getting into fights, walking gingerly up the stairs, hesitating to jump, not purring on contact, and he took a giant poop in the middle of the hall. We took him to the vet and they…