a childhood activity

If we keep digging where will we end up?  That is the ageless question of children peering into a hole in the ground and who are drawn to keep digging until they find the wonderful mystery that may be waiting in there.  If you keep digging will you end up in China??

On the other hand, when you find an already dug hole so deep-  what is there to do but fill it up again.     

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   Bianca took up the job under the watchful interest of little Ruby and the somewhat skeptical appearing observer on a excavator.  The boy never did relinquish his perch there even with the nudging,  cajoling pressure from another parent who wanted him to share.  "  I'm not moving" he said.    Real stick to it-ness which makes me think he may have had the tenacity to be the  hole digger. 

I love watching the play of children.   Left to their own devices in the great outdoors, children are the same as ever and some things like the joys of hole digging and refilling never changes.   Somehow that is reassuring.  Thank heavens for little girls (and boys) who allow us to re-live all the fun. 

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And about digging to China...   The origins of that saying is linked to Thoreau who is said to have come up with the phrase when he saw his neighbors digging a hole in their yard.   But from North America you would actually end up in the Indian Ocean

Here is a link to show you:  this shows where you end up