Active and Peaceful

Tonight I reached my son’s family home in northern Wisconsin at sunset. My grandchildren, Graf Kids, had just come home from a soccer practice and were jumping on their trampoline in the yard.

After a busy day at home getting ready for this time up north with my grandchildren this was a welcome sight. Although they were active, jumping up and down, the scene was peaceful.

I arrived with two big boxes of worms for our efforts to turn cow dung into ‘black gold’ or castings. There did not seem to be a smell in the car transporting the worms but as soon as I opened the door there was a strong smell of cow manure in the air. My guess is today they were draining the manure pit and spreading the manure on the field by knifing it into the ground. I do not think our delivery of cow manure for the project has been made yet but we are ready with wood shavings and worms to make the beds for the worms to do their thing.

My main reason for being here is help my daughter-in-law as my son travels to Washington D.C. for a memorial service for police men and woman who have died on duty. Fortunately my grandchildren like my cooking of ethnic dishes. I brought my Indian spices with me and also can make a Lebanese dish of meat and rice that they enjoy. However, my main duty is not cooking dinner but driving my grandchildren to school, 4-H meeting, and soccer and baseball practices. Since they live in the country this means a lot of driving around.

Except for Thursday morning when I get to cut up vegetables at my granddaughter’s school for a fundraiser, and Friday when I travel with my daughter-in-law to present pictures of our Pilgrimage of Peace to India at her social studies classes, I have some ‘free time’ when the children are in school.

If this seems like an active schedule for the week it is. But it is an active peaceful schedule and that is good.

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