Poppy and the swing

Dear friends, you may remember the post I did a while back about the swing...oh, how I wanted a swing. The rope kind. Hanging from a high limb. In fact, I had chosen the perfect limb. Then there was a post with a picture of the rope that we ordered. On and on I went about this swing. Poppy came home one evening with a brand new board to build the seat. The swing was finished. You may also remember my post telling you how I fell out of my new swing, landing flat on my back, and how I lay there thinking I was all broken up, but as it turned out I was fine.

This is me last fall, trying out the new swing...

Well a few weeks ago I sat down in the swing, gave myself a little shove off with my feet and as the swing swung forward, something told me to hold tight, seems I felt the tiniest slip of some kind. No sooner had the thought entered my mind than the rope on the right side untied itself from that high tree limb, dropping me down on my right side and the tumbling rope hitting me right on top of the head. Has this swing been jinxed?

Once again, we brought out the tall ladder. It was no easy task getting the end of the rope over that high limb! Poppy's very words, It is tight this time.

So yesterday, after mowing and weed-eating...hot and tired, Poppy sits down in the swing. A hand on each rope, he backs up as far as the swing would go, lifts his feet and sails forward. As the words, "you might want to hold on tight" were coming out of my mouth, that same rope, same right side, came tumbling down. Poppy hit the ground and the rope hit him on the head. As I was saying, you might want to hold tight in case that rope comes loose again!  

You know it's hard not to laugh. No one was watching when I fell twice. I marched straight down to the shed and hauled that tall ladder back. Poppy says the knot is right this time, for sure. It won't come loose again. Would anyone like to give it a try?

The roses are beginning to bloom...

Thanks for visiting. Sorry about all the pictures. It's just so good to see color again! :)

Love,
Henny Penny  "The sky is falling, the sky is 
                                falling"!