Very smart and very sweet

It’s been like Christmas around here recently.  Sydney got a couple of woodworking tools because when I oohed and aahed over wooden bowls at the artists’ market he told me he could make something like that . . . with a couple of new tools 🙂  Well, then, of course!  I also got the rest of the Harry Potter books.  It’s so fun to see their colorful covers sharing shelf space with our academic books!  Speaking of which, Sydney and I both met with our advisors recently and received hefty reading lists to start us in dissertation directions.  That necessitated more book acquisition!

But then I got something I didn’t expect.  My birthday isn’t until the end of the month, but Sydney got me a present early so that I could use it while the weather’s nice.  It was a hammock!  And, very smart on Sydney’s part, it’s a two-person hammock, so we can read (okay, okay, nap) outside in the hammock together and enjoy what remains of our free time.  When I asked where we were going to put the hammock Sydney told me he was going to build me a stand, and he did–the very next day.  What an amazing, extravagant, and, might I add, gigantic present!

It’s wonderful to feel the breeze coming from all directions.  And it didn’t take the birds long to get used to us.  After an entire day of Sydney hammering 2×4’s together, the chickadees came whizzing by just moments after we tried it out the finished product.  This afternoon Sydney had a rabbit munch on clover just under the hammock while he was reading in it today.  Always nice to have nature come to you, rather than go to the effort of seeking it out.

Erin