I admit it, I’m an Amazon junkie. I get a lot of what I need off the web, and Amazon is one of the best ecommerce sites out there. I was skeptical when I heard about Amazon Prime and their free trial. Two day shipping free- one day shipping for $3.99. Nope, that’s not a typo, for four bucks you can ship millions of eligible items (items Amazon stocks, as opposed to it’s partners) to your house. Free for a whole month. After that they bill you an ANNUAL fee of $79.
Here’s what Amazon has to say:

Amazon Prime members enjoy the following benefits:
Fast Delivery
• Unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items
• Upgrades to One-Day (Overnight) Shipping for just $3.99 per item

Simple Shopping
• No minimum purchase required
• Members-only 1-Click buttons on product pages
• No need to think about shipping charges

Convenient Sharing
• Members can share benefits with up to four family members living in the same household

Free Trial
• Amazon Prime new subscribers are invited to try Amazon Prime free, for one month.
After the Free Trial period, customers will be automatically charged the $79 annual fee unless they choose not to upgrade to regular annual memberships at or before the end of the trial period.

So I signed up for the free month, figured I’d order a few things and then cancel. Well the membership paid for itself when I ordered a big piece of exercise equipment. I paid an additional $4 for next day service, figuring I’d get an email explaining I couldn’t do that. Nope, next day it showed up on my doorstep. Suddenly I was able to expect 2 day delivery for free. I find myself upgrading to next day service quite a bit, it’s just nice to have what I need exactly when I want it. A month goes by, I did some math and my shipping last year was already over what a prime membership costs- so I took the plunge. I’ve been happily ordering for months- if you regularly order from Amazon it’s worth your time to take a close look at Amazon Prime.

Here’s a cute sable ferret wallpaper I came across, thought you might like it.

Thank you to Tracey who was kind enough to send some pictures of her rescue ferrets. You can see Shadow and the in the new ferret pictures gallery for Tracey.

So Caroline Smith and Judy Bever wanted to show the Weasel War Dance, but didn’t have much luck. The carpetsharks pretty much ran off to explore the stage, more interesting things to do than play in a new place. Click the picture to watch.

When I was ten years old I was running around playing with toy cars. Andrew Licht was 9 years old when he went on a ferret capture with his father. Then he wrote a book about it. He was 10 when he drew the illustrations and had the book published. A published author at ten years old. Makes you feel lazy, huh? Here’s the story one one smart boy and his trip on a ferret capture with his biologist father.

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