cans and plums

So there's this fun game called Cans that is played all the time by the kids in the neighborhood. You put a crushed can on a crack in the sidewalk. You put another one 2 squares away from it. Then 2 people stand opposite each other and try to throw a basketball onto the can. If you hit it from 2 squares away, it's 10 points, 3 squares=20 points, 4 squares=30, and so on. First one to 100 wins. But the person who lost gets lasties. They get to go until they miss 3 times. I like to play.
I also played some football with some kids in a vacant lot across the street the other day. While we were there we noticed a plum tree. So we picked some and ate them. And then the kids went and told their friends. And their families. So we picked almost all the plums that we could reach without a ladder and fed half the block with plums. It's cool seeing God's creation being appreciated in the midst of the city, where it's mostly just concrete. I'm thankful for God placing that plum tree there, for how it provided some good fruit for our neighborhood and joy and laughter for us as we picked and enjoyed it.