Life, More Abundantly

By Beth - March 16, 2010

Some months (i don't remember how long) i became a member of the arbor day foundation, paid my $10 dues, and subsequently expected to receive 10 free "trees" in the mail. Yesterday, my trees arrived. I'm very excited.

Here's the package i received in the mail. Or, more correctly, this is what the trees looked like when i pulled them out of the package.

Here they are all separated. Four dogwoods, 3 goldenraintrees, 3 redbuds, and one crapemyrtle.

Some of the dogwood trees are fairly small. Hehe!

I promised one of the dogwood trees to a lady at my church. The others, i planted today. I might have taken pictures of where i planted them. But, one, it was raining, and my camera doesn't like water. Two, when i walked my husband directly up to one of the trees and pointed to it, he said, "where?" and he was serious. So i don't think a picture would've helped.

So. I made this fairly inaccurate drawing on paint to show you what my place sort of kind of looks like and roughly where i planted my trees. It may or may not be enlightening, but i enjoyed drawing it. You'll probably have to click on it and enlarge it in order to gain any new knowledge from it. I hope you enjoy looking at it.

I'm going to have to find something very brightly colored that the rain won't wash away to mark my little trees with. That way i will be able to find them - and avoid mowing them down when lawnmowing season arrives.

But i have big dreams. I'm envisioning them in all their beautiful potential, making my yard glow with color, attracting bees and butterflies to taste their nectar. Sigh.

I hope you enjoy my drawing.

In other news, i'm babysitting this week. Today, i had off, so i was able to plant trees. Tomorrow, i start in again. It's kind of like a competition, seeing if i can keep my house in some level of not-completely-filthy while watching 3 small children, who have to help me take care of 33 chickens, 9 dogs, and a cat. It's kind of fun. On Monday, when they were here, i kept hearing the phrase in my head, "life more abundantly." Yeah. Life is sometimes a mess, but abundant life, no matter how messy, is way improved over non-life, no matter how clean.