Hi, this is Katie here, Mom says we is finally catched up a bit so I can tell you all about our wild, adventuresome weekend. I will start with the kinda bad part 'cause it's the part that was first. On Saturday mornin' Mom & my Gramma person went to the next town to visit my Grampa where he is workin' with those great big horse things. When they came home in the middle of the day, there was Policeman guys all over the end of our road who said Mom and Gramma couldn't come home 'cause some dumb Park Worker guy had started a forest fire with a cuttin' torch (whatever that means). The Policemans said they was evacuumaten the area and nobody could go back in. They even told Mom & Gramma that they couldn't even come and rescue Me, BrandyDog, MarblesKitty (who thinks she is a dog), or all of Grama's Birdies. (30 or so) Gramma even started crying and said please, but the policemans said he had deaf ears and didn't care about us. ( can you believe that?) So, My brave Mom (or is it stupid) jumped out of the pickup and runned real fast right by that policeman and all the way home to Me! ( she loves Me SO much!) Then Gramma got a ride with the irrigation man and came home too. Then another Policeman came and said GET OUT NOW!! (even though the forest fire thing wasn't even close to our house) Well, My Mom said NO WAY! not unless you get us our pickup so we can take all our pets too! He said *he* didn't have time for that, and Mom said We ain't goin' without the Pets! (Silly how she calls us *pets* to other people) So that Policeman took Gramma down the road to get her pickup. So, all the Birds got put in Grammas truck (it was a squeeze!) and Me and Brandy & Marbles got in Mom's truck (in our goin'-in-the-car-cages of course) and then they made us drive away to Mom & Gramma's friends house. It was 103 degrees outside, and very hot too. I had to stay in my cage inside the truck with the cold-air-thingy on. We finally got to go home at almost 11:00 at night, and I didn't get to get out and play at all the whole time. Mom said it was "Midnight" when we went to bed, and the nice Firemans had the forest fire under control ( I know where under the couch is but not where under the control is?) The next morning very early Mom got me up and put me back in the goin'-in-the-car cage, and I thought that forest fire thing was back out from under the control or something. But We drove a LONG way and when we got there, there was FERRETS EVERYWHERE!! (Mom said it was the Oregon Ferret Association Fun Match) Boy did I have FUN!! I did my trick of puttin' my toys away and a nice man gave me a very pretty blue ribbon. Mom says I got 3rd place for havin' the blackest nose, and I got another pretty blue ribbon for gettin' dressed up like that "Statue of Liberty" lady. Lots of people took my picture with all those camera thingys. I didn't like bein' all dressed up, but I still gave Mom lots of Kisses cause it made her happy. We even won some raffle prizes, I liked the brown paper bag that everything else was in the best. I took a nice long nap in that bag! Well, then we went back home again, and I was so tired I slept all the way. the end... Katie Well, as you can see We had a VERY busy weekend, but it ended well, so it's OK! Sorry this is so long, BIG. See ya all later. PS: I think Tater & Odie's Paw Paw should try some Ferretone to make him feel better, it works for Me! Katie Amy & Katie "Here's Dookin' at you Kit!" [Posted in FML issue 1661]