I was watching the Today show the other day, and they talked about decorating your tree inexpensivly, and to decorate it to what interest you. They showed one tree that was decorated with the owners interest of gardening, they ran a old garden hose up and around the tree as garland, and hung life size (small) bird houses, with fake birds of course, gardening tools etc. truly beautiful and unique, since I am a gardener. But Linda's idea even sounded more interesting, and I think this is what I plan to do, make my tree a totally ferret tree, now I will start planning my decorations of things my ferrets like to steal and hide, and ferret toys and yes, the dryer hose is pretty cool, let them have this season to enjoy the tree, with caution, the tree, obviously will need to be hooked up so they cannot tip it over. Marti [Posted in FML issue 1778]