Hammock failures

 A couple of night ago The Perseid meteor shower was supposed to be in the night sky along with northern lights reaching far enough down into my area of Michigan. So I went to a friends place, a tiny cabin at the edge of a 80 acre corn field in the middle of nowhere to check them out.  Didn't see either one while I was awake. I got the hammock with stretcher bars like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only problem being that it was quite low to the ground, easy for getting into. But getting out was nigh impossible, my butt was lower than my knees and with nothing solid to use my right arm to push off, I was unable to get standing that way. So I had to put my right knee on the ground and get my left leg close to it. And use the excellent power in my left leg to rise to standing. As I get older I can see needing to do lots of left leg presses to keep that strength up.