Merry Christmas everybody! ::waving and grinning:: Oh my gosh, all the ferrets up here are just in a chatter. So many reunions and new friends. Add that to all of the Christmas excitement and you have little souls pinging off one cloud to another! Today cracked me up though. A little brown girl came strolling across the bridge. It took her a bit because she was busy ooo'ing and awe'ing over the lights. We did a really good job! So anyway ... oh gosh, they are breaking out in Christmas carols again! I have to talk really loud now okay? Okay. Anyway, Dancing Dani and Twiggy were hiding in the rice beds near the bridge. They popped out from underneath, rice went everywhere, and they yelled, "Surprise!" You'd think she'd jump out of her skin, but instead it made her jump and twist and spin in circles dooking. Then they told her to join them. And she took a hop and a run and did a swan dive right into the rice. I was left standing there, thinking what about me? How funny is that? So while she was finding endless balls in there, I walked over to the edge of the bed and introduced myself. She was not impressed. Hmmm. I thought it must have been those balls in the rice, so I listened to her mom. Her mom said that she loved bags, boxes, and especially bags in boxes. So I rustled up a bag and shook it all over the place. She popped that head up so quick it wasn't funny (okay well, maybe it was funny). Shake shake shake went the bag. She hopped and ran right over to me. I whipped it behind my back and said, "nope, not so quick". Then she listened to me. I introduced myself again, told her about Saraferret and Muldoone. And then I started explaining where she was. Then her nose started twitching and she started looking around, and she tearfully asked where Girly was. Apparently Girly and her mom were really important to her. I didn't know why she took things so hard, until she explained that she was one of the Utah ferrets. No wonder the poor little thing was sensitive. That's when I explained that Girly would be here someday, and that her mom would greet her, and that she'd make lots of nice friends. She wasn't so sad then. And I pointed around and told her about all of the heavenly things that were here for her. She was still unsure of things. Until I said one thing, "Your mom says, ' I'll miss you little one. You are in your last new home, sweetie' ". She stopped and looked at me with soulful little eyes and asked, "forever?" I replied, "forever". Then I smiled and tossed the bag in a box and threw it down in front of us. We both grinned with fangs glistening, and dove right into that sucker! Merry Christmas, Sandee [Posted in FML issue 4730]