"Lawn Chair Larry, " who in 1982 famously took flight in a homemade contraption made of a patio chair and 45 helium-filled balloons.

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Lie flat on your back on a blanket, lawn chair or sleeping bag and look up, taking in as much of the sky as possible.

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Picture the following: You're reclining on a lawn chair, relaxed, while one robot mows your lawn, another cleans your pool and a third fetches you a beer.

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He was the first to cross the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia in an ultralight aircraft, basically a lawn chair attached to a kite and propeller.

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So my advice this Memorial Day is slap on some sunscreen, pull up a lawn chair, and have a little fruit salad or broccoli with your burger.

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With the winter blast, Morawski expected the return of an old city tradition in which residents clear a parking space and keep it reserved with a lawn chair.

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The topics included how good Hillary looked considering all she had been through (as if she were a widow at a funeral) and whether the Clintons, who vacationed on a ranch in Wyoming because a pollster told them to, would be happy forgoing the Hamptons in favor of the politically correct Adirondacks, a place so sleepy there's a lawn chair named after it.

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After ambling over to the Main House, I found myself unwilling to rise from a lawn rocking chair for a good 90 minutes.

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From my rocking chair, the back lawn extended far down a steep grade ending at a trout pond and smelled new-mown.

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