Guess what I just found? Our original permit for Haleakala from 1983. She was preceded by two temporary residents (Smash and Breshnev (sp?)) and by family member Tandy, and we have a feeling for how long they were before Hale' joined us, plus we know that we did not have ferrets in the place where we lived up to the Spring of '82, so it must have been in 1982 -- likely in Summer from recollection of the weather -- that we got our first ferret. For a while now we haven't recalled how long ferrets have been in the family. Now we know again! 19 years with ferrets in the family sometime in a few months! [Posted in FML issue 3360]