Howdy, I went to the ferret show this weekend in Seattle. It was my first ferret show ever. And I learned the shows themselves are really boring. It's just some people looking and at bunch of ferrets. I'm sure it was quite exciting for the people that were actually showing ferrets and it probably would've been more interesting to me if I was showing some of my ferrets. But when you own four unruly ferrets who are completely lacking in the social graces necessary for a public outing, you have to go to ferret shows sans ferrets. This is not to say I didn't have a good time. In fact I had a great time. I got to meet many ferret people. I got to meet Jeanne Carley of Ferret Calendar and California Legalization fame, who came up from CaCa Land for the show. It was quite exciting to talk to someone from the FML from further away than the local people. (Not to say that it is not exciting to talk to the local people). Especially since I wasn't able to go the FML 10th. She had the usual Ferret Calendar-related stuff and also the cover for next years Ferret Calendar which will have a ferrets around the world theme. She was eager to talk about ferts and the legalization effort in CA. We also talked about the making of the calendars. I never realized the amount of work that goes into one of those. The WarmFuzzy people were also there all the way from Pennsylvania with many excellent ferret products. There were also other booths with a myriad other ferret supplies. I was lucky to get out of there only buying one T-shirt. That is another reason I didn't bring my ferrets with me, they would've coerced my into buying them more stuff. Sorry, Ed, I didn't take a video, pictures or any other form of documentation, so I can't help you there. All in all, I had a real good time and enjoyed meeting all the ferret people(who are probably wondering which one I was). Gesundheit, Volkswagen (Ed's not the only one who can sign off in German), Limejello & The Weezils of Doom "If vegetable oil is made of vegetables, what is baby oil made of?" [Posted in FML issue 2263]