Dear Ferret Folks- Can I please give a big public shout out to one of my favourite Ferret Ladies, the ever quiet and gracious Ardith in Reno who had a REALLY CRAPPY health scare yesterday, and could use our collective love and hugs? (She is ok, just sorely tasked. Don't ask! Don't make her re-live it!) If you do not know Ardith, then you have missed a very special friend to ferrets and hedgehogs...and donkeys...tand tractors, all the good stuff. She doesn't post a lot probably because she is sewing. She makes the most beautiful quilts that you can possibly imagine. I have two of them, including the "Ping is He" memorial quilt that went up for raffle for a fundraiser a few years back. Some mind-bogglingly kind person won it and then donated it to me. I sleep under it *every* night. (Thank you, whoever you are!) Ardith is quiet, but she has the most desperately irreverent wit that she saves for special occasions, all of which I appreciate dearly. I appreciate *Ardith* dearly. She will probably be annoyed that I held her up to public notice like this, but Reno is *very* far away, and my kung-fu is powerful. I can handle her wrath! (I think. Maybe...oops...) I say that Ardith is "the other A" because amongst those with whom I frequently thread off-list I sign myself simply "-A." She often posts as "the other -A." Love and prayers, please, for a very special (and very private, I better sleep with my tinfoil hat on tonight) ferret lady. Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML 6795]