Hand-Me-Downs

Many of you know Jesse enjoys plants and gardening. His co-workers know this as well and this year they have given us some trees and bushes they don't want any more! For any of you who love plants you know these are quite wonderful hand-me-downs. It makes us feel quite rich!!!

First, Patrick gave us 2 butterfly bushes (to attract butterflies, obviously!) and a burning bush (that turns a beautiful red in the Fall). Then Rob didn't want 2 tall, rather narrow pine trees. We'll take them, we said!

What is fun about these hand-me-downs is that Jesse and I have talked about how nice it would be to have these specific plants, the bushes especially. And recently I have been noticing how pine trees accent the sides of homes so attractively. It's fun to see how God provides little gifts like these. If we had bought these ourselves, for sure we wouldn't have bought them as big as they are now (they're pricier that way!). So we've been given beautiful trees and bushes already good size. We'll just pray they take to our soil well and grow, grow, grow here at the Bowman Homestead. :-)