Kyle-of-The-Future

So what would you do with a four foot hole in your backyard?

Here's what we're doing. My eight-year-old son and I will write a letter (maybe even send a drawing, as well) to the Kyle-of-The-Future. We'll write about the present, what we think might happen, and hope might happen. Everything will be sealed in a (mostly) airtight and (hopefully) moisture-proof box, and buried. We might even send a toy into the future — though I've warned him that I'll be in no great hurry to dig this hole again anytime soon, and anything that goes into the future, stays in the future.

I have no idea when that will be. Five years? Ten years? These are the days I'm not entirely sure we'll still be in this house next year. But my hope is to put this off 'till he's old enough to take an active part in the digging.