River rats for a day

Every once in a while, we act like what I consider, a normal family.
This means that we all 4 spend time together in the same space for more than 30 minutes, not eating, cleaning, or bickering.
No mama or dad flying out the door to work or to a birth.
No girl child needing to be taken to school.

Just a lovely, long afternoon on the river kayaking.
It was really fun.
And we met the old man who, for the past 32 years, places rocks in the river every day to make a new "composition" or visual art (the rocks are in a huge heart shape) and also audible water music/trickling. He does it as a gift to God and for every person who happens to wander near the river. He starts in the river water sometime in April and stops arranging his compositions sometime in October, when the water is deeper and much colder. He was amazing. He sang his prayer song he sings after each new arrangement. We felt like we just had a sit down with St. Francis after a half hour with him. Very cool man.

Of course, I didn't get a photo of his composition because I was sitting in a kayak and you have to be standing on the bank to really see the large, heart-shaped rock wall in the water.