Today, Joshua surrendered the trowel and potting soil for his toolbox and a mound of dried out dirt. While I occupied Maggie on the swingset, my youngest son measured, hammered, and sawed the brittle earth with his plastic tools. He poked holes in the ground with screw drivers, demolished dirt clods with wrenches and studied the soil with a flashlight. He hauled buckets of water to his work spot, jumped up and down in the puddles he'd created and screamed for assistance when he accidently uncovered a worm. Over lunch, I asked Josh what he'd been doing in the dirt all morning.
"Oh?" I inquired. "What did you plant?"
"Matoes, corn, beans, and mittens," he replied with pride.
Perhaps we'll get a crop of something after all... last I checked, the deer in our neighborhood don't munch on mittens!
Today's Treasure : "Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you." -Hosea 10:12
