It was a lovely day at de Bridge. SaraFerret decided to take a walk with de kits, Serena and Isabel to de beautiful falls. Oh you haven't heard about de Falls? Oh these are more beautiful than all de falls thrown together on earth and trust me, we has seen pictures of them. Serena, de curious one, was running along ahead of me picking up blue flowers for a bouquet. Isabel, on de other hand, was a teensy bit quieter, but not by much, was just chattering to me. All of a sudden, up flew Dexter, with a note in his paw. He said, "SawaFewwet, I has dis note from de Boss, But I don't understand it. It says dis lady wants you to find her fewwets who passed awhile back. How will you ever find them? Do you want me to help you?" I took de note and read it and knew our walk was over for awhile, so I sent Serena and Isabel back to de cottage. Den I told Dexter to be careful about reading de notes as he could get easily confused. Just to wait till I had read them and then I would help him understand them. Then I asked Dexter, "How would you like to go with me to find these fuzzies? You must be very quiet though and not chatter. Do you promise?" Dexter looked at me with amazement because I had NEVER taken him anywhere like dis. He said, "SawaFewwet, I will be the best fewwet ever. You will be so pwoud of me and so will the Boss." So we went to check in de Boss's Big Book of Ferrets. There in the Book under Cynde's name I found, Clyde, greeted by Forsythe and then there was Patches, greeted by Maxwell, and Bonnie, greeted by Jennifer. And where did they all go? Let me see--wing color, etc. oh yes, now I knew where to find dem. I asked Dexter, "Now do you see how we do this?" He was very quiet and said not a word and nodded his head as if to say "yes." I closed de Big Book and then... We went down de road, across de strawberry patch, through de everlasting gold flowers and we reached Stonebeary Mound. Wowsie, nice big cottage. Had to be for all de fuzzies dat were dere, looking through my note. I knocked on de door, and a handsome fuzzy answered. I asked, "Are Bonnie, Clyde, and Patches here?" He replied, "Oh, I am Clyde, and that is Bonnie over there cooking, and I am sure that Patches is around here somewhere. Why don't you two come in?" I told them dat I was SaraFerret and dat I was one of de bridgegreeters and dat I had a note from dere Mommy Cynde. Well dat woke dem all up. Bonnie finished cooking (whatever it was sure smelled good), and she ran over to see what was going on. You could see dat she was de head of de house. A lovely sable fuzzy with wings of hot pink. She called for Patches who came out from de other room, cute little fellow with wings of bright green. And of course Clyde, a handsome young fuzzy with wings of blue. De other fuzzies were quckly introduced; Misty, Silver Bear, Coco Bear, Spott, Scooter, and Stinky. So many and I was getting confused with all of de names. I told dem dat dere Mommy wanted to know how dey were doing. Dat she still missed dem and thought of dem all of de time. I could see how much dey still thought of her. But then I remembered Dexter and nudged him to introduce himself (not a word had he said). So I had to do it. "Everyone, dis is Dexter, and he is one of de couriers. You seldom see dem unless dey are out playing. But dey are so important." Clyde spoke up, "Gee, he sure is a quiet sort, isn't he?" (Oh, I thought to myself, if they only knew). I knew we had to get this show on de road so I said, "we really must get going; is everyone ready? Just follow me to a place where you have never been before." So we went down another path through a field of sweet williams, past a weeping willow and arrived at de Misting Pond. We sat down beside de cool clear water and with one swish we saw a vision of Mommy Cynde appear. Dey got so excited dey started waving and dooking with all of dere might. "We love you Mommy. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for rescuing us from the pet store. Thank you for taking care of us. We hope we took care of you. We have beautiful wings and can fly now. We have lotsa friends and run and play and most of all we don't hurt any more. Wait a minute, Mommy, we have something else to say." Then Bonnie got de rest of de group and gathered dem all together and ... "All right guys, lets do this right for Mommy. WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR." Then dey began to throw hugs and kisses and de song and wrapped it with all of dere love and laid dem on a nearby shooting star which was headed to your house and by de time you should read dis it should have landed dere. And with another swish de vision was gone. We visited awhile by de Misting Pond. I joked with dem about a group dat included Frank and Jesse James and asked if dey had met dem. Bonnie replied, "Oh yes, we have met dem, we have a lot of laughs about our names. Would you two like to come back to our cottage? We have a lot to eat there?" I said, "Thank you so much for asking us, but Dexter and I has so much to do right now. I know your cooking smells so good. Could we come another time?" So Bonnie gave me an open invitation to just stop by and I knew I would first chance. I gave each a hug and Bonnie gave a very quiet Dexter a great BIG HUG as we parted ways. As we headed home, Dexter asked me, "SawaFewwet, I was good, wasn't I? I was quiet just like you asked." I replied with a laugh, "Yes, Dexter, you were too quiet, but you were a sweetheart." (Bless his little courier heart, at least he was trying). Lovey and hugs, SaraFerret, bridgegreeter [Posted in FML 6550]