Yesterday I had my two youngest grandsons for the day and will again today.  They are on Spring Break.  We got our leather gloves on, grabbed the pruning tools, got the garden cart and proceeded to go to work trimming a row of plants called Russian Sage.  The boys are 5 and 7.  They were a great deal of help mainly putting what I was cutting into the cart so I could haul it to the burn pile.  While we were working I told them I’d pay them $5 each for their help.  They said, “Grandpa, you don’t need to pay us–this is FUN!”

In the midst of the pruning I was asked by the older one what pruning meant?  He hadn’t heard that word before and he is a lover of learning.  I told him we were cutting away the dead part of these plants and that was pruning.  I asked him if he had any habits that he needed to do away with?  He said he spent too much time on his ipad and he wanted to reduce the time.  I told him that would be pruning a habit.  I told him I was pruning a habit too.  We should always look at our lives and see what isn’t good so we can prune it.  That made perfect sense to him.

Today we are going to start gardening.  We will rototil a part of the garden and plant what can be planted this early in the spring.  I’m sure we will have just as much fun as yesterday.  God is Good!