Dear Ferret Folks- Switch and Lily don't get a lot of mail. True, we do get Ferrets Magazine, but it comes addressed to me. The ladies don't read the entire issue, they just scan it for pictures of hob hotties. Sometimes they check out the ads, and sigh over the way cool accessories for sale, but they don't have a credit card. Thank god. I don't know where I'd store two metric tons of raisins. I hold onto my Visa Platinum card very tightly, ever since my ferret "Don't", sister of "No", snitched it years ago and stashed it inside of the sofa. (It was loads of fun calling up Citibank and explaining that well, I hadn't actually lost the card...but I wasn't up to the challenge of dismantling my sofa. Plus weasels had probably chewed up the magnetic strip, anyway. Evidently Citibank doesn't have a computer code for that.) Anyway, they NEVER got a package before. NEVER EVER. But they did the other day, a small white cardboard box. There was a marvelous thing inside. Foamy fries? Nope. Some new, exotic kibble? Nope. A polar fleece sleepy sack? Nope. An intact hob? Nope. Bob Church folded small? Nope. Not even close. You'll never guess, so I'll tell you. It is a small, stuffed green and yellow John Deere tractor with a squeaky inside. How convenient! An apartment sized tractor! The ladies can use it to demolish the rest of my collection of african violets. They have learned a new trick, you see. Now instead of beating the plants to a pulp, they simply REMOVE them from their little plastic pots, and stash the *&^&+! pots beneath the big upholstered chair in the living room. I keep finding naked, shivering african violets, bare roots to the wind, on their sides on the windowsill. No doubt the tractor will be of tremendous assistance to them in this endeavor. Switch the Kit and Hurricane Lily would like to take this opportunity to thank fellow FLO members Zoe and Stewart Coddington for this marvelous gift! Zoe and Stewart should keep an eye on their OWN mailbox. Alexandra in Massachusetts P.S. Um, Julie, have you checked your wallet, lately? Is YOUR card still in there? Does it have bite marks? Zoe and Stewart, is there something you want to tell Mommy? [Posted in FML issue 4116]