Floating

[larryhammer]

I am sitting in the living room before the rest of the house is up. Across the room, a mylar balloon, a lingering remnant of a birthday celebration, is drifting at neutral buoyancy around the corner. The currents take it in a circuit up to the ceiling, down the short hallway, down to a few feet above the floor (to the disconcertion of the cats), back out into the room to the dining table, then up again -- a cycle of about five minutes.

*glee*

---L.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

See, what you need is a whole herd of those things. Then the cats could stalk them, and cull out the weak.

[larryhammer]

I thought cats are for culling the weak origami animals?

---L.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Really, anything that presents a challenge.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Last night I went to my son and daughter in law's house for dinner. My granddaughter was in from New York and a friend of hers was there as well. The cats (14 of them) were trying to recover from the shock of 20 to 30 people in the house over Thanksgiving day, decided that there wern't too many of us to cope with and came out to be petted. It was funny. There would be a little head peeking around the corner, then another and another. Normally they are very shy and no one knows they are around.

[azang.livejournal.com]

It is the simple things that make life worth living.

[marith.livejournal.com]

*grins* Enjoy it! It seems like floating balloons won't be around for too much longer. :/ At least not until they figure out how to synthesize helium.

[harvestar.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh a few years back. It was a reproduction of an earlier work of his called "Clouds".

A white room filled with large silver Mylar rectangular balloons and a fan. You were allowed to walk among them and touch them (not too hard). With the gentle movement and the shiny surfaces, It was the most striking thing in the whole place. And I could just imagine what the kids did who came there. :)

[janni.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds lovely!

[larryhammer]

Hee!

[harvestar.livejournal.com]

Not being a big Andy Warhol fan, it was the most beautiful thing in the museum. :)