FOREVER! Okay so it slipped out that I AM having a birthday again. The ferrets here have agreed not to bake a cake so I won't need to enlarge my wardrobe! LOL I will officially be celebrating my "day" with human family members on Friday the 13 th -- what else for an old lady huh? I fear most the black balloons my grandson would love to bestow upon me! On the 14th- I will be with 100 other artists at a local gallery reception... hoping to meet the one special person that would like to purchase my most recent landscape painting.. and then it will be over- just another day for one of many ferret shelter folks. Thank you all for the kind thoughts - e cards & mailed sentiments. I know life marches on and have now learned I should celebrate these days while I can. Fondly in ferrets, Alicia Drakiotes [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 5120]