Yes Ms. Sinsull, I am indeed. I'm a threww hole ocarina type of possum. I was born about a year and a half ago.

You see, one day Catspaw was poking fun at Mr. Fielding for having a rosewood kazoo and he said that he was personally holding out for an ocarina in the shape of an animal. And then, because he could think of nothing more ridiculous, Catspaw said he had always wanted to blow up a possum's ass. Please excuse my language, but that's what he said. Its in the threads.

Anyway, my "birthmom"--Barbara Blessings told Catspaw she thought she could make one and here I am! While I was being finished Catspaw became quite ill and spent a month in the hospital where he almost died. But he says that he couldn't do that before I arrived and luckily by the time I arrived, he had just gotten out of the hospital and was going to be OK.

I have lots of pictures of me with other Mudcatters and also a lot from travelling with Catspaw and Karen to various places and even one of me signing into a motel and hot tubbing with Catspaw. One day Ms. Sinsull, maybe I'll get to meet you and you can have a little poof up my bum. I'd certainly be honored.

BTW, as a Mudcat Icon, it was only right that I should be named by a Muddie and my name was a joint effort on the part of Mr. Seed and Mr. El Swanno. When Mr. El Swanno was here in Ohio, he let me sit on the hood and the wheel of the bright red new ambulance he was taking back to California. It was very exciting.

Cleigh O'Possum