Hi all dis is SaraFerret from de Rainbow Bwidge. Luckily dere havent been too many crossing de Bwidge for a while. Of course lotsa wild furries and other animals have been crossing. Anyway, a big group of Dews and me was surfing at de lake here--and its kinda funny de way we do it. One or two of my buds, de Great Pyreenes dogs, comes over and a gwoup of us latch on to him and he swims real far out and den we get some biggie ways and hold on for dear life. Of course we all have water wings on in case of upsets. But dis time we all made it thru the waves. Den I heard de Boss' voice over de loudspeaker: SaraFerret you are sposed to be on duty at de bwidge to meet Big Guy-- so why are you and his Dew friends messing around. Get yourselves to de bwidge NOW. Oh oh--dont even bother toweling off I told de Dews-- we gotta be dere quick like a bunny Oh-oh I is really in trouble now, Big Guy who is a very big Dew is at de bwidge looking kinda stunned. He says where is I. I tells him he is at de Rainbow Bridge and den he sees his buds from long ago. Hey guys how is it and why are we here. I apologizes to Big Guy and tells him I was sposed to be here before he got here and have all of us ready to greet him. He says well ok, you have greeted me, now I am ready to go back home. Uh Big Guy I say, dis is home now--dere is no going back. Your humans will one day in de future cross de bwidge to meet you but until den, all de furries here will be one big family. He looks at me and says: OH. I always hate dese times when dey first find out dere is not any goings back. But den he just accepts it, no screamin or nothing. He starts chattering wit his friends and den dey tell him dat he is not quite thru yet. I speaks up and says, well first, we has to get you wings anda halo. I forgots we all still had our water wings and I admits dey did look a bit goofy outa of de water. Dose wings? He asks. No, No I said-we just uses dose for swimmings. So we all trots over to Kit and Kaboodle and I shows him de big wing display--okay pick one of de boy wings, I says to him. Okay he picks the brightest almost blinding set of wings I has seen. Orange with blue streaks. Wowsie, we will really see him comming. Dats what you want for sure, I asks. But his buds admire his good taste in colors (dere's no way to figure out guys). We try on his wings and sure enough dey were made for him and he gots his halo and an orange hammie to match--one of dose supersizes ones. He says ok, I am hungry, when do we eats. His buds laugh remembering his famous appetite. We are having a party for you Norman says. A party, he says, a real party--what is a party? Come wit us dey says and you too Ms SaraFerret, (its nice to be invited). We decided on de ways dere dat de would give him a tour in a day or so as dey knew dere way around. Makes my job easier. Den we arrives at his new digs -- Welcome Big Guy -- read de sign. And dose guys mustve really bribed de mousey angels as dey had food galore, some of which I has never seen before. I stayed for a while, but I could tell dey were gonna be running around all night and I has to gets my beauty sleep so I can be ready for tomorrow. Oh by de way, Big Guy, sends his love to all de humans he left behind plus a sweet kiss was sent by comet to reach you tonite. Hugs and dooks from de Bwidge SaraFerret [Posted in FML issue 5345]