I was grouse hunting a draw with my father in law and noticed a shiny object lodged in a bush. As I reached down to pick up what I believed to be trash, two grouse flew out of the bush and exited stage left. The object was a silver balloon released by a second grade elementary school class in eastern Tennessee. I calculated from the address that the balloon had traveled 300 miles over the Appalachian Mountains to land in our bush Western North Carolina. At the time, my daughter was in the second grade, and she composed a Polite response letter To which we received no reply.
