June 24, 2002

Elizabeth and friend chilling on a hammock.

Hammocks. In the midst of running errands today, we stopped by Green Eggs and Hammocks, a store run by one of Elizabeth's high school friends. The store specializes in - you guessed it - hammocks. Big and small hammocks, toy hammocks, hammock accessories. One hammock two hammock red hammock blue hammock. They've managed to find a gaping nitch for themselves in the hammock market and have made a great little business out of it. They get their hammocks mostly from the Yucatan in Mexico, where they've gone to visit the families which make them--in a system like a family guild system. These people sit and sleep on hammocks, so they know what they're doing. Cotton is sent from West Texas down to Yucatan, spun, dyed, and crafted into hammocks, and sent back to West Texas. A NAFTA industry. The Green Eggs and Hammocks folks are interested in soon moving into more hemp hammocks and even organic cotton hammocks. We know what we're getting for chairs when we move back...