Whatever hammock I'm in is the Peace Pipe. (like Air Force One). The name comes from a "Koombaya" reaction to a Warbonnet.
Whatever hammock I'm in is the Peace Pipe. (like Air Force One). The name comes from a "Koombaya" reaction to a Warbonnet.
"Pips"
Mountains have a dreamy way
Of folding up a noisy day
In quiet covers, cool and gray.
---Leigh Buckner Hanes
Surely, God could have made a better way to sleep.
Surely, God never did.
As with so many things in my life, my wife winds up nicknaming them; cars, bicycles, kayaks, dogs, the TV remote, etc., often they're musical or song references and she loves to make up lyrics and sing goofy songs about them. Well the hammock started out as the "Blackbird", an obvious Beetles reference but I think it might have been a bit too serious as a song for her to have fun with. So she morphed it into another song title "Black Betty", now if you've ever heard the song you'll probably recognize the lyric "bam-a-lam".
So now my hammock is named "bam-a-lam"I guess as long as she's encouraging me to get out and hang she can make fun of my hammock all she wants.
David
Now you have me thinking, and I will have to come up with a name for mine... LOL...
"No whining in the woods"
Anybody seen the movie "Money Pit". Not that my hammock is a POS, but I've sunk more $$$ into this addiction, than should be allowed by law.
"I'd rather be in the mountains thinking about God, than in church thinking about the mountains" - John Muir
Festus
I named my red diy wbbb Angrybird.
"The Longbow," or sometimes "The Green Mile" (she's a forest green 12 footer
Thinking of possible nick-name changes:
"Kid-magnet" (all children within three counties crawl out of the woodwork and try to jump in, or treat its current occupant like a pinata).
"Ol' 'One-two'" (after equipping her with whoopies, I immediately experienced two critical fails within a two minute period (user error, of course)).
"The Sap-sucker" (Sierra National Forest = Pine trees... sappy, sappy pine trees).
"DAGGER" (a manly acronym for Decided Against Going to Ground's Exhausting Rigors).
"Darwin" (after a year and a half, this DIY hammock has been tweaked and modified so often it's nearly impossible to trace it back to its origins)
"The HMMMM" (stands for Hope My Missus Misses Me--This has a dual meaning: I spend a lot of time either in my hammock or tinkering with it, so my presence is missed (I hope). Also, one of these days when I disappear in the garage for hours on end, and she is left to deal with our moderately rambunctious children alone, she'll probably snap, and when she starts flinging cutlery in my direction, I hope my missus misses me).
You're gonna need a bigger hammock
I'm not named my hammock at this time, but I named my black Orbea Ordu time trial bicycle Stealth fighter
Ride fast
Live fun
My son calls mine Hercules, but I can't for the life of me figure out why.....
I seriously LOL'd on the "Bus Driver" comment that was classic.
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -Plato
What do I call my hammock thats simple COMFORTABLE
Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take. ~Author Unknown
Big Joe
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