Just took the title above from the post I just made which included a painted rock.

Going away for a week up nort’ with kids and grandkids. Lots of fishing and fetching the dogs and going to town for double scoop ice cream cones. A wonderful time to be had, no matter what the weather. 

One thing I intend on bringing are rocks I picked up in Tennessee when I went camping there in the Spring. I intend to sit around the kitchen table one day or evening with my Gkids (and anyone else who wants to join) and paint me some rocks.

I did this with the family a couple of years ago with the same group. I had a wonderful time coloring and writing messages on little rocks which we then spread joyously around the campground before we left. Messages like Peace. Make My Day. You Are Special.

Finding a painted rock is such a great feeling. We’ve found a few in our travels, mostly at campsites. I mean, how cool is it to hang around the slide at the park and at the bottom leg find something that someone has taken time to decorate and place there?

To me it’s spreading cheer and smiles to those you will never meet.

Your little picture or word might just be what someone needed that day. Light in the dark tunnel. All of that. It’s giving without having to get anything back. I don’t need the reward — the reward is in the making. 

And making them with daughter-in-laws and grandkids and other grandmas is the biggest reward anyway.

Find yourself some smooth rocks. Maybe 2″ x 3″ or in that range. Wash them off. Buy yourself an inexpensive set of permanent markers. Make a design or write a word that makes you smile. Then leave it someplace where people wander and will one day find it.

You won’t believe how good it will make you feel.

Peace. 

P.S. None of the above painted rocks are mine. But am I getting ideas…..