Our dishwasher broke for good about a month ago and we bought a new one and then the day it was going to get installed there was a work emergency and mom had to go in to the office so we had to reschedule the dishwasher delivery and this whole time mom has been washing dishes by hand and OMG was she tired of washing cat bowls. With so many kittens in the house we probably go through 50 cat bowls every day. Anyway the new DishWasher got installed last week and it is Wonderful!  Here I am with Bill and Bryce who did the install and took the old one away.  Also, OMG! when the new one arrived it was bashed up and there were no more of that model in stock!  So we had to go to the appliance store to pick out a different model that they had in stock and Bill and Bryce picked it up around 5 pm and then finally got it installed about 7:30 that night!  They were super awesome to come back that late to do the work.  They were so nice and handsome but not quite as handsome as me.

This weekend was kitten Spa Day for Big Fluffy. She had food (and worse things) stuck in her long fluffy fur so she had a bath and looks so much better now!

We’ve had so much Wilfdfire smoke it is coming all the way from California and Oregon! For two weeks this has been what it looks like from our deck. Sometimes the smoke is different colors like orangey-yellow. And it is very poor visibility. And smells smokey.

Then we had two nights of rain YAY! and the smoke has started to clear.

We have been Very Busy taking care of kittens! Two kitten families is a lot of feeding and cleaning and socializing and cleaning and appointments for shots and spay\neuter and removing food from messy faces. This is the sink after breakfast feeding.

The youngest ones are starting to gain weight more quickly and are more playful. At first they wanted lots of cuddle time and reassurance now they are more confident. They are all girls except Fluffy Mittens so now we can pick permanent names!

Also mom has been Very Busy at work because they got Hacked! So we had to take the network offline and kick the hackers out and check everything and make everything super-duper safe and change everyone’s passwords and bring it all back online. We were like “we don’t negotiate with hackers talk to the HAMMER!”. Mom even helped identify the threat when she noticed that a server had restarted for no reason and alerted her boss who did not like what was in the server log and passed it on to the corporate security team who jumped into high gear to stop the hackers. It’s all about teamwork!

The animal shelter has so many kittens again!  They really needed fosters to take some younger ones at least over the holiday weekend so we picked up a group. They are four orphaned siblings and are super cute. They are still settling in but are doing great! They are getting braver and are eating on their own although mom has done some syringe feeding just to get them started; then they start gobbling up the food themselves.

Three of them are probably going to be long-haired kitties. We don’t know if they are boys or girls yet (mom is not good at figuring that out when they are little, she says they all look like boys to her) so we have temporary gender neutral names so far. There is Fluffy, Big Fluffy, Mittens, and Fluffy Mittens. They are probably 4 – 5 weeks old but are small for their age so our main job is to help them grow big and strong.

Here is Mittens! Look at that sweet little face and those big whiskers!

The other kitten family looks enormous now!  Here is Tristan and Scout.