Hello, this is Mrs. Phyllis (The Fair) Babyface Ferret. My husband, Mr. Buckaroo Babyface Ferret and I are the next-cage neighbors of the Mr. and Mrs. MacDuff Ferrets here at the Ferret And Dove Sanctuary, Inc. My Buckie-Cuddles doesn't have his lower two front teeth (it makes him lisp, you understand) so he was shyer than I was about announcing these thanks. The neighbors, Maggie Mae and Duff MacDuff Ferrets have had a big sloshy bowl of their home-made duck soup and are loudly snoring. Especially Mrs. Maggie, but I hope you don't tell her that when she wakes, for she's a gum-toothed terror about nipping other ferrets over every little thing, even happily married ferrets such as we are! What happened was there was a very bothersome hurricane named Dennis which blew down the power substations all near our area and we were without power for a week, after it. I only remember being in half a faint much of the time, awakened by our humans taking us to bathe in cooling water several times every day so we didn't cook to death. One of us died from pneumonia complications, anyway, and they were broken hearted as they always are when any of us Crosses Over. They swore a Great Vow (I think by the old Ferret-Goddess, MafDet . Well, she was the mongoose-es Goddess, but them mongoose-es are so much like us, that my great granddam-Ferret said she's ours, too! So there.) that this shall not happen to any of us again, and began a Generator Fund drive for this shelter. Thanks to donators of every amount from a single dollar to several hundred, they're getting this project moving. A licensed electrician recommended a load test be done first, so we have some sort of appointment to have this done. Plus, yesterday we were visited by a fireman from our local firehouse on his own off-duty time who said he and his shift-buddies would help lay in the concrete for the generator to be set up on, besides helping with the half-destroyed fence and helping haul off the heavy logs from the trees still down since that time. Firemen and women are Really Wonderful folks! Here is the latest list of yet more really wonderful folks, some of them are YOU!, who have also donated to our Sanctary's Generator Fund. If I mis-say or repeat any already-been-thanked persons, please forgive an aged old grand-lady Ferret. These are the latest Generator Fund contributors worthy of many and sincere thanks fm every ferret-body who lives here... Angela Hamberg, Dawna Kraus, Sydney Chadwyke, Karen Ludwig, Cindy Jaro, Debbie McPherson, Mary Hogan, Brian Swords, Sean Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wright. If anyone might still like to make a donation to us, please make your donations out to The Ferret And Dove Sanctuary, Inc. 3815 Tom Lane Drive, Pensacola, Florida, 32504 ...or, if you prefer to use a PayPal route, there are several PayPal "make a donation" buttons here... http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html Thank you for reading this, too. Even your thoughts and prayers help all of us, here. [Posted in FML issue 4967]