Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

It's an old adage that we have all heard many times. We may have even used it once or twice. And, in most circumstances, it's true; no matter how many times we all wish it weren't: money doesn't grow on trees.

The other day while Brian and his Uncle Joe were visiting our new house, assisting the radon repair fellow, there was a folded dollar bill in the lawn, just waiting to be discovered. Sure enough, it was. Surely this could only be a sign that we have just invested in an extremely high earning property, and that our decision to purchase this house will be a profitable one. (I suppose this could bode disaster if you interpret the dollar bill on the lawn as 'throwing money away'.) Fortunately, Brian and I are both optimists and choose to believe that this dollar bill laying in our yard is a fortuitous sign.

Our parents were right when they rattled off the old saying to us, and we believed them. Money doesn't grow on trees. Of course it doesn't.

It grows in the grass.