Hiya all, dis is SaraFerret. Wowsie this has been a busy week esp since poor Mully is laid up from the quills. Everytime he tinks he is getting ok the quills return to torment him. And de poor Porcu dat did it is beyond hisself. He covers hisself wit a cloth and is constantly crying about what he did. I hushed him and told him it wasnt on purpose, but no mind, he continues to bring pepsis and other gifts to Mully. Finally de Boss took over and led the poor Porcupine back home among his own and cautioned him to be careful about leaving his area as tings happen. Okay de other day, I got a note dat said dat a ferret named Tifa was crossing de bridge. What a pretty name I thinks. And dere I saw her starting to cross, hmm what seems matter. She is having trouble wit de winds and all and its no easy ting to cross. She kept looking back and making little-bitty steps forward and finally just stopped and sat down and cried. Oh-oh what to do. Hey Tifa whats de matter. No sound except sobs. Oh wowsie!!!! Okay I start across and it sure is windy. I is even having trouble. I finally reached her and I held on to her and said Hey Tifa its okay, you just hold onto me. But I wanna go back to my mommy--she was so nice and helds me all de time and I wanna go home. Sigh!! I hate these times. I know honey, I know. But dis is your new home now and one day you will see your mommy again. Besides some of your group is here already. Dat didnt do much good. Okay, she wasnt heavy at all, just a wisp. I told her just to hold on and she kept crying for her mommy. So I just picks her up and together we made it to her new home. By now she quit crying and just laid dere in my arms. I squeezed her tight and then set her down. She looked around and den looked at me and said are you Muldoone--mommy said Muldoone was sposed to meet me. Well honey, Mully is really busy now, so he sent me. I is SaraFerret and I am a bridge greeter here also. Oh really!!!! she said--you mean us girls can be bridge greeters too. Of course I said. I tell you what, you see my wings and halo, well why dont we go over to Kit and Kaboodle and pick up a pair of wings for you to wear. We wear wings?? Of course we do, we are now ferret angels. She just glowed den. And off we went. Dere was bunches of new wings laid out for her to see, and even Auntie Mary Ferret was dere. She showed Tifa a new pair of wings--dese were pink with silver treads in dem and dey were pretty. Oh wowsie Tifa said I want dose. Okay and together Auntie and I fixed de new wings on her and sure enough she looked like an angel. Den the halo to wear and de new hammie to sleep in. Together we went to de big book dat de Boss keeps on arrivals as de note says dat Puji, Tifa's cagemate had arrived just a short time before. Together we read and found where Puji was staying. Well we left de Kit and Kaboodle and ran right into Puji--de ferret grapevine (what peoples call a phone) had told Puji that another of the group had arrived. All tree of us took off for de short tour as I tink Mully was planning to do de grand tour for both when he gets betters. Well, we first went to de mudslide and Puji was chittering wit Tifa about de fun times we would have on de slide--we has to take off our wings and halo cuz we donts want to get dem all muddy. And of course we spent much time sliding--didnt seem like many others were dere today. We were all big messes when it was over so we jumped into de cleaning pond and got all clean and nicey smells. Bubbles too. I asks Puji how he had been and he says well he had a great looking den and was looking forward to his sister being dere. And den we ran to de reflecting pool for de big surprise. Tifa was all excited about de different tings dat happens here and de food and all de parties dat de party animals (wild ones) give and dey invites all of de ferrets dere. Her eyes gots bigger and bigger as de stories went on. (Puji was doing a good job and at least Tifa was no longer crying.) I pulled Tifa close to me and as we looked into de reflecting pool we could see Tifa's mommy crying. Awww poor mommy dey both says. And dey started waving and yelling hey mommy its us, dont cry. All of a sudden it gots real quiet. And we could see dere Mommy look around like she could hear and see something but doesnt know what and den she looks up and starts waving to us and smiling. Well we spent a time dere just looking at Mommy and den de picture faded from us. So we just picks up and heads over to Puji's den where Puji had a welcome party for Tifa. Party! said de sign in front and of course where dere is a Party! dere is loads of Ferrets!!!! waiting to dance and sing and all dat plus de mousie angels always had to come. De mousies are treasures and dey are good buddies to have. We partied and danced all nite and den I had to leave as I had a kit at home who needed to be checked on and I left dem to chitter chat away and catch up on news. I tought to myself what a nice place to live wit no fears any more. No more meaness or evil, just love and kisses. And so ended another greeting at de bridge Dooks of loves and huggies SaraFerret [Posted in FML issue 5157]