Garden Hose Tightrope

Stomped right up to a thick green garden hose coiled lazily across the flowerbed border. Perfect challenge! I climbed onto a flat paving brick, popped off both my arms, and wedged my white plastic hands straight into the sides of my blue boots like balancing outriggers. Clack, clack! I shuffled one foot forward onto the rubber curve. Wobble, sway... whoa! The hose squished softly under my weight. I locked my eyes on a bright yellow buttercup ahead, gave a dramatic sideways tilt to counter the wobble, and held my breath. Two steady steps across the rubber bridge without tumbling off into the damp mulch! Pure high-wire acrobatics.