Hi all this is SaraFerret. De other day I was just hanging out in my den and Serena was playing around--blocks and such and squeakie toys and the mousie angels were watching her like a hawk. Dey adore her. All of a sudden the loudspeaker blares: SaraFerret-get out of your hammie and get to de bridge. You have a ferret who will be crossing de bridge. So I cleans up Serena, pops her into de backpack and off like de wind. Okay de note hanging by de entrance said his name was Tazzy and he apparently had just passed very peacefully. Okay the note didnt say dat Tazzy was somewhat of a character (dictionary again). Yeppers dere he was getting ready to cross and he popped open a big umbrella (well big for a ferret anyway) and hopped on to one of de ropes dat serve as a handrail over de bridge. I yelled--No, No Tazzy thats to hold onto, not to play tightrope walking. Binoculars were out on our side. Many ferrets must have heard about de daredevil dat was crossing de Bridge. Oh I dont think I should look--I know he cant die again, but he could be a bit tossed if he fell off (Dats happened wit some of us when we crossed. So dere he was--Ms SaraFerret, let Mommy know how I came across de bridge. (I could just see myself trying to explain to his Mommy why he was somewhat crumbled up.) He was doing pretty good considering de wind was blowing and de ropes swung back and forth. Datboy could really balance hisself well. La-de-da he was singing at de top of his lungs, look at me de great Tazzy. I was watching I yelled back. And FINALLY he made it--all de ferrets and mousies and musteys were applauding him. Magnificient, courageous and other words of praise (you can really tell when I has been at de dictionary. He hopped off de rope and tells me Hi I am Tazzy de great and you, my lovely young ferret must be SaraFerret and he kissed my paw. (You can really tell dat his mommy had worked hard teaching him how to talk to a ferretgirl). I tells him--yes we all knew it was you--your mommy sent a note saying you were crossing de bridge. Well he says, what do we do now--I can see dat dis guy is gonna go far among de ferrets of de Rainbow Bridge. I know wings and halo time. How did you know dat I says. Oh mommy used to tell us stories of de bridge and how it would be, and hows we would look and what we would wear. Oh! I said, Well dats settled then. We trotted over to Kit and Kaboodle to pick out de type of wings which de great tightrope walker would wear. Maybe a cape also! Sure enough a beautiful set of golden wings with halo and a cape which mysteriously appeared (yeppers like I says always can tell when I has been hanging around dat big book). We got him dressed up. I asks him if he wanted a tour. He says well a short one anyway. All de other ferrets had disappeared to do their tings. All dat was dere was md (Serena in my backpack and Tazzy. His tears started comming down his cheeksand he brushing dem away wit his paw. And den he leaned against me and cryed his little heart out. I miss all de ferrets and I miss Mommy--I wanna go back home. Poor little guy, he had tried so hard to be brave but after all de guys had gone, he couldnt hold back at all. I even had tears in my eyes, remembering how scared I was when I first came here. I gots him a cloth and he wipes his tears away. He says can I go and take de short tour now. I tells him datI have a surprise waiting for him after de short tour. Off to de Kibble Garage where de guy furries hung out chattering and all dat about de latest ting in cloud flight and cloud hopping. He says wowsie dat looks like fun. And den to de famous Otter Mudslide. He kept getting more and more excited. I warns him not to try right now until he had put away his cape--otherwise it would get dirty and de mousie angels who lots of cleaning would have a number of squeaks wit him. He nodded his head, Oh!ok. And now we arrived at de surprise. Okay whats dis? he says. Dis is de reflecting pool. And I told him to lean over de water and swish it around a bit and den he would see someting. He looked at me and asks uh well uh are you gonna toss me in de water. Of course not. Just do what I said-you want your surprise dont you. He leaned over and saw Mommy Marla wit tears in her eyes wit her ferrets around her. Hey Mommy I made it--I know you would love my grand entrance. He waved very hard. I tells him dat she couldnt see him, and he says well if she couldnt see my why did she wave back. I looked dere she was waving her arms and no tears. Oh yes one last ting. He met all de ferrets from his business dat had passed over de bridge before him. And so passed another day at de bridge Dooks of love SaraFerret [Posted in FML issue 5156]