Every family seems to have a talent for something or other. I believe that our family has a distinct flair for sitting around the house. I realize that most families do that, but it just seems to me that we have this knack for creating really nice spots to sit.
Creating these spaces is a communal effort, with days and sometimes weeks of doing nothing at all, followed by several more weeks of people saying "oh, it doesn't matter to me" when they really mean something else.
But it all sorts itself out in the end, and the final product represents the ideas of all the family members.
Alex and Sand provide the landscaping and placement of furnishings. I provide most of the sitting around. Lil provides the dirt for the mud pies, and John provides political commentary.
It is hard to find an ensemble of talent like that. Bill Hearst had a team like that when he built his place down in San Simeon, but I think they're mostly dead now.
Fortunately, now that I'm retired, I can contribute a little more time to my part on the projects.
Somebody has to.
With that hammock (under the lemon tree?), it would appear that you are not limiting yourselves to sitting.
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