Whew! We is slap worn out!. Friday night we marched in the Opening Cerymoanies of the Olympics. Just as we camed down that big ol' ramp, the TV people putted somethin' on the TV about some frogs ridin' a swamp lizard into a beer joint. Then a bunch of other folks talked about stuff that they had did. Paw Paw said that we ain't never gonna buy nothin' from them folks on account of because they kept the world from seein' us marchin' in with all the other athletes. We still had a heck of a good ol' time. We was especially impressed when that Muhammed Ali guy gotted to light the big ol' flame. Paw Paw just leaned real hard on his cane and blubbered like a baby. He does that a lot when something really touches his ol' heartbone. We was blubberin' too. It was a very special moment for us. Anyaway, the next morning we gotted to take our physicals and Pee Pee test. The people doctor looked kinda confused when we presented ourselves for examination. Then he felted our noses, checked our ears and admired our bushy tails. We managed to steal most of his doctor stuff before he was done with us. We still ain't sure why he made us pee in a corner. Cookie and Tater finger he must have been readin' the FML and knowed all about Odie's carrot problem. Anywho, we passed all the tests and and gotted approved for competition. We did make one interesting discovery during all the doctor stuff. Turns out that Cookie is a girl-type ferret! Ruh roh! Guess Rosie and Maxie is gonna get all jealous now! We hopes that they believes us when we says that our only interest in Cookie is as a member of the Carrotball Team. She's the best nose bumper we gots. Well, she is kinda cute.... Well, next day Mee Maw tooked the three of us down to watch some of the Olympic events. Paw Paw stayed home because his laig has done disappered and he's tryin' to act pitiful. He's real good at that - even better than he is at cookin' BBQ. We gotted to watch a bunch of human-type peoples takin' baths in a big ol' bath tub. We ain't never seen nobody in such a hurry to get out of the tub! We found out that Mee Maw can blubber pretty good too. This really nice young human lady, who gotted out of the tub first or second, did a really special thing. She and some other ladies got to stand on some steps while pretty music played and some other folks putted some pretty ribbons, with shiny round things on them, around their necks. Then this nice lady gaved the whole ribbon, shiny thing and all, to a friend of hers who couldn't take a bath with her because she was too sick to do so. Mee Maw was the first to start cryin' like Paw Paw does sometimes. It wasn't long before everybody started to leak tears because of what the nice lady had done for her friend. That gotted us to thinkin'. We only gotted into this Olympic thang because we wanted to prove how much we loves Rosie and Maxie. Cookie came down to help us out and didn't even tell us she was a girl, at first - so we knows that she only wants to help. We thinks that we has a pretty good chance of beating that British Carrotball Team. We also thinks that we can beat those really big ferts on the Canadian Moose Stash Team. So, when we gets them pretty ribbons and shiny things putted around our necks, we is gonna give them to Gizzie, Troy Lynn's sick baby. It just seems like the right thing to do. You hang in there, Gizzie. You gots three Olympic-type ferrets who is lovin' you and thinking 'bout you. Give Mama Troy Lynn a special kiss for us. We gotta go do some more training for our event now. Now that Paw Paw is carryin' that big stick around with him, we finger that we'd really better get down to some serimous training. Many much loves, dooks and hopes for Olympic Neat Stuff, Tater, Odie and Cookie - America's Team [Posted in FML issue 1639]