We finally got to meet the infamous... er... famous Bob Church, or "Mr. Lucky" as he has come to be known in our household, this past Saturday. The day started off when we met at the "For Ferrets Only" store where Bob had the opportunity to check a few baculas and browse the various ferret products in the store. We had a "guess the ferret's age by the size of his bacula" contest and I gotta say, Bob did pretty good. It's a good thing human males aren't aged the same way! :-) From there I led him to our shelter to meet Angela, our shelter operator, and 116 fuzzbutts. A few more baculas were checked, ferret stories shared and plenty of ferrets ooooh'd and ahh'd over. From the shelter we headed to our place to show off our crew and try to get a little food into Bob. As soon as we walked in the door I dragged Bob off to our ferret room where Beasley, Spaz and Penny were sleeping. Of course I asked Bob to do his age guessing trick on Beasley and Spaz, and they were not the least impressed by the technique. He hit Beasley's age right on the head, so to speak, but there was some questions as to whether or not he was even close on Spaz. Spaz is just under two, from what I know, and Bob says he's more like 3.5 to 4. I guess we'll never really know since Spaz ain't sayin'. Bob was taken with a small tent that Angela sells in her store but which was temporarily out of stock, and he noticed that I had one in our ferret room. Strange, but that tent is now missing in action. I did a head count and there's still three ferrets here, but they ain't talkin', so I guess well never know where that tent went. The kids weren't interested in socializing much, so we left them to their wanderings around the house while we fired up the grill and threw on some chicken and burgers and my wife, Wanda, laid out all sorts of human treats. We spent the rest of the evening talking about Bob's various adventures and mishaps (hence the "Mr. Lucky" tag), ferrets and ferret people and all in all, had a great time visiting. Lookout Knoxville, he's heading your way! For the ferrets, Mike * Michael F. Janke, [log in to unmask] * Secretary, South Florida Ferret Club and Rescue, Inc. * * Visit our web site: http://www.miamiferret.org [Posted in FML issue 2404]