Not long after we got the house, I bought a hammock and stand. I loved lying out in that thing on cool summer evenings, or reading a book in the middle of the day… man. Good stuff. We were lying out on the hammock the night I proposed to Ei-Nyung. There’s just something calming about sitting there, hanging just above the ground, gently swaying in the breeze.

About a week after we got engaged, that hammock broke. I hadn’t taken it in in bad weather, and the rope can only take so much before it snaps. I replaced in a little bit later with a cheapo hammock from IKEA, but it broke quite quickly (someone else broke it – sort of irritated me that they never even offered to replace it).

Anyway, the hammock stand stood there, hammock-less for the better part of two years. The blackberry vines had grown over part of it, and I’d just never had the time to deal with it. Today, we went to Target to get a bathroom organizer for the downstairs (damned tension rod thing had rusted, and fell over on me the other day, so I threw it out). While we were there, they had a cheapo hammock for $20. For $20, I couldn’t pass it up. Brought it home, got some chain to run to the stand (the hammock was too short), and spent the afternoon lounging.

There are really few things that are better than lying on a hammock, your dog lying at your side on the ground, on a beautiful warm summer evening.