Alia
Fishaholic
Trish, all your balloon arrangements are fabulous -- you must be a very talented and creative person!
I also agree that the balloon releases are fun and marvelous to watch, but I have been indoctrinated by groups like the Wildlife Federation against such releases, due to the danger those balloons will eventually pose to our fellow earthlings when they pop and the pieces fall into streams and woodlands, or even the side of the road.
Sorry, I don't mean to be a wet blanket. I just cringe when I see all those zillions of balloons go up at the political conventions every four years, thinking about all those poor unsuspecting fish or animals suffering needlessly on our account. [sniff]
I know only too well what havoc a small, seemingly innocent bit of stuff can wreak. Some months ago my beloved cat, Dickens, ingested a fair length of thread from a misplaced spool he was playing with, and the poor little guy nearly didn't make it.
Six incisions he had to have in his various inner parts to remove it all. 
He is back to himself now, thank goodness, but for a couple of weeks it was touch and go.
I'll put a pic of the little mug at the bottom of this so you all can have a look if you want to.
Set me back a pretty penny, too, though you don't think about that when your babies are in the grip of death, but I can tell you, I could have filled this house with fish and fish tanks for what I paid to get that thread out of my cat!
And by the way, I like that song, too. Isn't it German or Scandinavian? I seem to recall hearing it in a foreign language.
Bye everyone.
I also agree that the balloon releases are fun and marvelous to watch, but I have been indoctrinated by groups like the Wildlife Federation against such releases, due to the danger those balloons will eventually pose to our fellow earthlings when they pop and the pieces fall into streams and woodlands, or even the side of the road.
Sorry, I don't mean to be a wet blanket. I just cringe when I see all those zillions of balloons go up at the political conventions every four years, thinking about all those poor unsuspecting fish or animals suffering needlessly on our account. [sniff]
I know only too well what havoc a small, seemingly innocent bit of stuff can wreak. Some months ago my beloved cat, Dickens, ingested a fair length of thread from a misplaced spool he was playing with, and the poor little guy nearly didn't make it.
Six incisions he had to have in his various inner parts to remove it all. He is back to himself now, thank goodness, but for a couple of weeks it was touch and go. I'll put a pic of the little mug at the bottom of this so you all can have a look if you want to.
Set me back a pretty penny, too, though you don't think about that when your babies are in the grip of death, but I can tell you, I could have filled this house with fish and fish tanks for what I paid to get that thread out of my cat!
And by the way, I like that song, too. Isn't it German or Scandinavian? I seem to recall hearing it in a foreign language.
Bye everyone.
....It actually bruised me. 
8)
. Most people would not have given it a second thought. It is good to know that they are biodegradable - unlike the stupid grocery bags you see fluttering off of trees all the time like flags 
but they do eventually get mulched, and that's more than you can say for a disposable diaper (the way people leave those things laying around -- outrageous!!) 
