She’s FINALLy gotten to where she will sit still. Sometimes she’ll doze off and be quiet for about 15 minutes on end. She has a mouth like you wouldn’t believe. Tanner has fallen silent in awe.

Tanner hissed at first. But we made a breakthrough the morning we let the Basement Cats out and Tanner, at the top of the stairs, stopped and went back down a few steps, waiting for Finity.

A day on, she returned the favor.

She’s a very elegant, long-limbed monkey. And into absolutely everything.

Seishi still hisses at her. But he’s weakening. Last evening he voluntarily came up on my lap, only about two feet from her in Jane’s lap, and was relaxed about it.

Shu, well, Shu is Shu, and very hissy. But he’s not attacking. He doesn’t like Tanner howling, and he seems to be calmer now that Tanner isn’t howling. Finity can pass within about a foot of him, and he won’t attack. That’s progress. But Shu also is real close with Seishi, and if Seishi starts to accept the kitten, that may make a difference. Both of them were reacting to both Tanner’s and Finity’s scent up here on the main floor, but now seem to have no objection to it. This also is progress.

Sorry to have been silent a bit: we had a computer disaster, lost a file on which Jane had spent a lot of work, and is now having to rework it. Word of wisdom: a solid state drive is a lot like a flash drive: very small chance to read them if they go bad. And one did, on a new Lenovo superthin notebook, and she’s trying to reconsitute it all from memory.