>>I have a large garden and lots of firewood.
I love it! Don’t you think it would have made them happy to know that they had an impact on a descendant? That they weren’t forgotten. I think that’s a gift you give them.
I wonder about that. I think it would.
I wonder if they would be surprised how much of an impact they have had. I have visited some of the old homesteads of the g.g.grandparents and actually "liberated" some samples from their old gnarled apple trees. I've had them grafted and now have 4' apple trees that were from the trees that grew near their kitchen.
I have touched the 200 lb. stones in the stone walls and wondered how they ever figured out how to lift them and move them. And I have scattered seeds around there, hollyhocks and wildflowers. I feel very connected.