Beautiful Weekend

What a beautiful weekend here, it got up into the 60s on Sunday. We grilled some burgers for lunch and had a picnic, then I sat out on the recliner reading for a while (Ringworld by Larry Niven, so far it’s great). After I had enough lazing about I built the kids a swing out of odd deck parts left over from the last house. I also saved the end ropes from an old hammock that were exactly the right length. I try not to be too much of a pack-rat, but it’s great when I can build something like this out of stuff I’ve already got lying around.
The hard part was finding a limb low enough to hang the swing from; most of our trees are tall and straight, with no limbs below twenty feet. We have a few Beech trees up front nearer to the street, one with a nice sturdy branch about nine feet up. I’ll try to get some pictures of it up sometime…