Hi Chris, They would have wanted to burn you at the stake!! I started laughing out loud while reading about your decorating endeavor. Allen Bastrop Co.,Tx Zone 8 SECK138@aol.com wrote: > Allen I thought you might really appreciate this story. I am fortunately not > be allergic to poison ivy which means of course that I didn't even bother to > find out what it looks like. I had to make 60 arrangements for a PTO potluck > dinner in the fall. I scooped out pumpkins as the base. I did not have > enough flowers I decided to comb the neighborhood and use foliage leaves. I > cut and arranged poison ivy in each arrangement. Thankfully my husband came > home and he knows what it looks like. Could you imagine all those people that > I might of exposed. From that much exposure, cutting and arranging it, I did > end up with one small rash that lasted two days. I, of course, took it out of > the arrangements and put in other foliage. I was giving all the arrangements > away that night. It would have been unbelieveable if my husband hadn't known. > Chris from Braintree, MA Zone 5