Reply #231: Hi, CC ...

[WhirlyGirl]

. . . Your decision about the motorcycle course was probably the best one, since your attention was divided. Summer will be more fun on a bike, anyway.

Glad to hear that Giz is still hanging in, and that the others are babying him. I didn't know ferrets were so responsive to other ferrets' distress.

Friday night, an elderly relative of my husband's called. I thought she was calling with condolences about Ashley but it turned she knew nothing of that -- she was calling to let him know that one of his cousins had died of a sudden heart attack.

The funeral for Ashley was very tiring. His daughter was still having a rough time. The memorial service at the church was awfully long, and the wind was blowing quite stiffly at the cemetary; I was thankful to have had a thermal cami on under my blouse, as well as the blazer over it.

I teared up a bit when the soldiers came forward to pay their respects at the graveside while taps was played, and then removed the flag from the casket and folded it with great precision and presented it to my sister-in-law, softly praising Ash's service to his country to her. That ritual gets me every time, it's so darn pretty the way they do it.

Hope you can be with us for the early show tomorrow, but if not I'll be here as always for the re-air, and I'll catch you then. Nite nite, CC. Sweet ferret or KO dreams, which ever one makes you happiest!