spryng | Kona & Darjeeling

Thank you for all your comments on Friday; making sure we knew what we were getting into was a big priority for me. Not that we had decided by then. It was definitely an all day how-could-this-go-horribly-wrong fest of ideas. And Lady and I came to the conclusion that even if it did go horribly wrong, we would be able to manage it. So.

A little more about the kitties:

the_verb has a friend who lived/worked at a barn. The barn has a number of barn cats, all of which were supposed to have been spayed but one of which was apparently not. That has since been fixed. But there were still two kitties to be taken care of and the onus of finding the kitties a home was placed on said friend. She couldn't keep them because she would no longer be living at the barn and her family is allergic and many people laid claim on the kitties only to back out at the last second. Her next step was to take the kitties to a shelter.

Anyway. So Lady and I decided late on Friday that we could afford and handle kitties and then Saturday we went and picked them up. We debated names the entire drive, having originally settled on Amalsuentha and Goisuentha, Visigothic queens. But we tripped upon Darjeeling and Kona on the drive and once we met them, the names kind of stuck. The grey and white tabby is a lot calmer than her sister and a lot more cautious, so Darjeeling fit her well. And the black kitty is hyper and a bit on the crazy, mischievous side, so of course she fits Kona. I like to think they're Darjeeling and Kona Suentha, but in practice that probably won't pan out. :)

They're absolute darlings. They're already attacking the curtains, as I'd been warned, but thankfully they're litter trained so we haven't had to worry about that. They're about four months old, curious as hell, but each of them purr as loud as a lawnmower. I still can't get past the feeling that we're only holding on to them for a few days, though. I imagine in a week or so it'll be like we've never not had kittens.

Darjeeling, our skittish little tabby.