Our Hammock

Sam and I have had quite the Hammock saga lately! In Sam's old house (in his bachelor days in Palo Alto) he had this great hammock out on the back porch. It was such a perfect place to lie out on a spring night and look at the stars! We had a lot of fun with it. So when it came time for him to move into our last apartment he wasn't ready to just leave it at the house, so he brought it with him and put it into storage. It sat in storage for a few months, when Sam finally decided it was time to get rid of it, since we had no place to put it. So he sold it on craigslist.

Well about a month later we got the call to move into our new apartment, which has a FABULOUS good sized fenced in porch! Sam immediately thought about the hammock. So onto craigslist again to find a new one. We kept looking trying to find the perfect one. Finally we just decided to get the stand from someone, that had an older rope hammock attached to it. And buy a nice fabric/padded one from Ikea. We were so excited about it! We painted the hammock stand bright red to match the red and white ikea hammock. After the stand dried, we were so excited to hook on the new hammock and test it out. Hooked it on, and it was the WIDEST hammock I have ever seen! It was as big as a full-sized bed! We both fit on there easily without touching and 2 other people could have joined us without it being awkward! It took up basically the whole width of our porch...we decided that definitely wasn't going to work.

So Sam thought maybe we should just use the rope hammock it came with. Sam hooked it all up again and went to lay in it. As soon as he put is weight on it, it all came apart and Sam ended up on the floor!
So we finally found a solution! LONG story short. We are now using our camping hammock (Sam used it to camp on the beach in Hawaii when he was visiting me). And we couldn't be happier with it! SO nice to lay out in the hammock on a summer night!