Time to start thinking about signing up for the FML St Paddy's Day Card Exchange! You can sign up by going to: http://www.hideyhole.org/exchange.php or by sending me an e-mail telling me you want to join in on the fun! I will take sign-ups until March 7th. The Valentine's Day was a wonderful success with 52 people joining in and raising a total of $363.00. That figure is as of Saturday but there were still 7 people I had not heard from yet so the total may go a little higher! I am sure the weather in parts of the country have prevented some from getting thier cards out. I know it's been downright nasty here! Besides the wonderful amount of money raised for Support Our Shelters, there were also some great items sent! Lots of hearts! Heart stickers and candy, Heart bookmarks and a beautiful silver heart charm, heart shaped toys and CHOCOLATE!! Trish sent a wonderful CD and Tracy sent a small scrapebook. The furkids loved their cheweasel and foamy fries and you all would not believe the beautiful homemade cards! Just truly awesome cards...with many wonderful pictures! I think my favorite part of the exchanges are seeing all the pictures of the furkids! I will also include a special thank-you to Jennifer for the address labels! These are a huge help to me! And I would also like to thank everyone for their very generous donations! Large or small, your donation does make a difference to a ferret in a shelter somewhere! So thank you to: Serena DeCastro, Debbie Fitzgerald, Ray and Julie Pressey, Debbie Zimmerman, Linda Gurule, Suzi Lambert, Holly DiMeglio, Lisa Williams, Carol Owens, Diddy Wheeler, Connie Martin, Robin Jones, Flora Hedrick, Alicia Drakiotes, Jennifer RaselMargarey Joslyn, Mary DeCoff, Wendy Loughlin, Ada Gibbs, Lynn Barker, Kelly White, Judy Gabel, Carol Krause, Sara Munz, Angela Dixon, Gillian Donovan, Linda Zerillo, Ben and Lydia Russell, Vickey Bishop, Stephanie Grant, Deb Carlson, Anna Walker, Jennifer Vaughn, Melissa Rotert, Brenda Zupko, Erica Bruczkowski, and Dawn Bohety. And I have also made a desicion about the gift basket. After many different opinions ranging from people thinking it's a great idea to one person who refused to ever accept another card from me, I have decided that I do really like the gift basket idea....but instead of doing it for every card exchange, I will do one big basket at Christmas. Every exchange you participate in will get you one entry into the drawing for the basket. Since this is a special thank-you from me and not Support Our Shelters, you do not have to donate to get an entry, all you have to do is join in the card exchange and send your cards out!. I have always tried to stress that the exchange is for fun and to share our love of ferrets with each other. A donation to participate has never been required and never will be as long as I am doing the exchanges. The donations are just a wonderful by-product and are appreciated by every shelter mom they have helped! So, if you have never joined in the FML Card Exchange, please join us! To those who have continually supported this, thank you!! Judy Cooke Support Our Shelters [Posted in FML issue 4068]