I brought Kinikini home on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, so we were away from home on the the second anniversary of his adoption.

He was the second cat we adopted from a cat colony at the top of Aiea Heights. Kali, a beautiful little calico, was the first. Kinikini was the second. There were hints that perhaps Kali was Kinikini’s mother, but there was no immediate flash of recognition.

We put Kinikini by himself in our small spare bedroom. so that he could become accustomed to being in the house, and to get used to us. It took Kali a week before she allowed herself to come out from under the futon to greet me.

However, after just 24 hours–maybe even 20 hours–Kinikini joined me for a bit of petting. He barely hesitated.

To set the stage, the folks who tended the cat colony had called him “Mr Marbles.” We later changed that to Kinikini.

Fast forward not quite two years.

This was the scene when we arrived home last night, two years and two days after Kinikini’s initial arrival in our house.