Hammocks

[jmc_bks]

I love lazy Sundays. It was overcast today but cleared up in the afternoon. I assembled the hammock that Mom gave me for Christmas. It takes up a huge chunk of my backyard. The frame was easy to assemble and hooking the hammock up was fine . . . until I sat down in it and sank all the way to the concrete. So I adjusted, then readjusted and readjusted again. The chain could be a link or two shorter, but I couldn't get the hammock to stretch any farther. Maybe after it has been used a little more, it'll stretch the last little bit I needed.

Lounged in it in the sunshine, drinking a diet coke and eating a slice of Cinnamon Raisin Chip bread. The only thing better would've been drinking a margarita, but I didn't have the ingredients for that. It's a good thing that I have a privacy fence out back -- there is no graceful way to get in or out of a hammock. I'm lucky that I didn't flip myself out of it.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*snicker* You must take a photo of the hammock. Or better yet, a photo of that precise moment you climb in/out of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, that would be from me: Maili.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Maili, I'd be happy to post a photo of the hammock :) But a photo of me climbing in or out would require an audience or witness to the ungainliness that is me -- not going to happen!

[(Anonymous)]

oh please?! Pretty please?

~Jay

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

No, absolutely not! Under the best of circumstances, I hide when a camera comes out. [It's a family thing, my mom complains that she has no photos of her kids after high school other than college graduation and wedding photos, because we all avoid cameras whenever possible.] There will be no flash bulbs or film permitted anywhere near The Hammock of Ungracefulness.

I think Maili put a hex or something on that hammock. Went outside this afternoon and nearly killed myself getting into it -- it didn't want to level out, it kept tilting to one side.