Fuzzy Wuzzy - My Hennessy Hammock

This weekend I experienced a whole new way of camping - Hammock Camping.  I can honestly say that I am full on in love.  


Being forty now and a wee bit overweight and out of shape, I thought that this may be something that I would not be able to do.  Boy was I wrong.  It went very well from the ease to set it up by myself to the ease of taking it back down. It was so easy to climb into and out of.  I can also use it as a set easily.

The first night, I unzipped it and slid into my sleeping bag and zip the hammock back up.  There I laid with my headlamp on while hanging from the inside line that has a very handy small cargo pocket.  My tennis shoes were in the bag that holds the hammock while not in use dangling at the opposite end of the hammock from my head.  Keeping them inside keeps them dry and critter free.


I do recommend that you keep shoes that can quickly be put on for those middle of the night potty breaks.  Within the first hour, I did have to go potty but after that I was so comfy that I slept till morning.


The next night I returned to my sweet hammock.  It was bug free inside, dry and calling to me to sleep.  The other campers with me stayed in cabins and fought spiders and other creatures all night.  You ask what I had to deal with?  GREAT SLEEP.  I slept so well that I didn't even dream.  I always dream every night at home.  My dreams are usually all night long and very intense.  Can I say this again?  I didn't dream at all either night.  What a great way to be able to sleep.


The netting is only 12 or so inches from my face but you can see so well outside it is like it isn't even there.  Cool breezes would occasionally come in the hammock.  I did not rock at all except after I first got it in.  Maybe if strong winds came through, I would have rocked some.  This was a good thing for me.


Each morning I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed.  Other than forcing me to leave my wonderful cocoon, I was ready to take on the day.


My 18 month old even laid down with me in it.  Plenty of room to share it with your younger child.


As I waited on the porch of the cabin Sunday morning waiting for my girl scouts to get up, it came to me that this hammock must have a name.  He is worthy of it.  His name immediately came to me - FUZZY WUZZY.  


I can not tell you enough wonderful things about  FUZZY WUZZY .  He is my new love.  Sorry to my husband.... :-)

Go get yours.  Mine came from REI.com so that I have guarantees and such as an REI member (which is free to join).  When I want a different model I can just take this old one in and switch it out.  

 The manufacturer's website is http://hennessyhammock.com/catalog/specs/expedition_asym_zip/

Know When To Hold Them and Know When To Fold Them.

There was a good old Kenny Rogers song called "Know When To Hold Them and Know When To Fold Them."  I always loved this song growing up even though I was not a country music fan until the last ten years of my life.  It could of been my mother's influence.  She would play such songs when my Daddy was traveling and they were at odds with one another.

My question is when to you know.  When do you stand your ground and fight for what you believe in?  Also, when do you step back, fold in and give in to what someone else wants.  Whether you understand what they are saying or not isn't it.  It is the fact that you know that it just isn't right for you.

The worse is when you want to make that person happy.  You may already feel that you don't have the closeness that you want with that person already.  By standing your ground, you may just push that person into another galaxy.  Yes, that is a bit extreme but to you it may just feel that far apart.

When do you stop giving up things that you want to be a part of or believe in?  What will that cost be to you and those that you love?  

Do you make a list?  The Pros verses the Cons.  The benefits verses the issues.  To bend or not.  To give in or fight.  To hold them or fold them.

I want to keep the peace.  I do not care for confrontation.  I try to avoid that route at all cost.  Yes, I am capable of it but in my "golden years" have decided that life is too short to argue my way through life.  "Make love not war" is so much more my preference.  

Type A personality is not me.  I just don't fly that way.  I am a great leader but don't mind handing over the reins to someone  I trust.  However, there are times those people need to let me have them back.  As humans, God did not make us perfect.  We each have our own attributes that we are gifted at and we are unique for them.  I do not excel at everything but appreciate when someone else does.  That is why we are paired with people from our spouses, to friends, to siblings, and so on.  Example would be that I am a pretty good cook.  My husband doesn't mind dishes.  That is a good team.  Another Example, my mother is great at shopping for the kids' clothes, I am have the money to give her.  That is a great team effort.

All this rambling is great but I am still stuck with whether to fold or hold them.  Are my dreams important enough to upset another's aspirations  over?  When and how do I make that choice???

Fiddle. Fiddle. Fiddle.

Funny Forty Quotes

It is coming very fast.  No need to hide.  It will find me anywhere.  Without a doubt, I will wake on April 5, 2012 to be FORTY.  So, let's have some fun!

“At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.”

“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”

“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, beverage of choice in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ “WOO HOO, what a ride!” (Robin told me this a long time ago)

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ~The Dalai Lama