As any happy suburbanite will tell you, nothing beats eating a meal outdoors. It's a warm summer's day, the succulent smell of grilled meat wafts off the barbecue, the early evening sun glows down on you, and your Uncle Walter is three sheets to the wind and keeps calling your recently-out cousin Gary his "niece."
Aren't family dinners fun?
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Theoretically, you can also use your patio table in your dining room, but that would make you an anarchist.
As you start planning your patio's look, don't forget hammocks. Pretty soon you'll have a cozy backyard area perfect for old people to reminisce and young people to get to second base.
Fast forward a little bit. You have your outdoor patio table set up, the food is cooked, Gary and Uncle Walter have made the same sort of fragile peace that German and British forces made on Christmas Eve during the 1914 Battle of Ypres, and your family sits down to eat. You savor your food, enjoying the warm weather, and feel the simple bliss of a meal shared on a beautiful day with people you love.
