Yesterday’s snowstorm is but a memory. The snow is mostly melted and spring is back, at least for now.
This weekend is our town’s Spring Cleanup. Along with most of our neighbors, we have a large pile of no-longer-wanted items in front of our house, that trash companies won’t pick up. First, the ‘pickers’ come around, salvaging things that can be reused, such as furniture, or metal that can be recycled. When the city trucks come ‘round, they sort out other recyclable materials such as wood or metal, before hauling away the rest. A charitable organization comes around, too, picking up boxes of donated usable items. Each year, we think we won’t have ‘much,’ but things do accumulate and it’s a great way to kickoff spring cleaning.
I’m going to visit the garden center this week to see what is there and most likely I’ll bring some flats home. I’ll be cleaning out flower beds and bird feeders, and setting out our lawn furniture.
There is spring cleaning to do on my blog as well. Every so often, I sort through my posts and create a book of my favorites. While I do, I’m going to take a break from writing new posts.
And it’s my birthday week, next week, so it won’t be all work! Time to celebrate another trip around the sun. I’m blessed to have wonderful people in my life, so I’ve a lunch date, and a breakfast with friends planned. Already, a card arrived in the mail yesterday.
Happy Spring to you all. 🌷
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful week celebrating. Such a sweet photo of your granddaughter working in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI love the clean up idea. I wish they did that around here although to be fair there are places in easy reach of us where we can take most things to either be recycled or trashed. Happy birthday! Enjoy your celebrations.
ReplyDeleteHi Karen! Happy birthday to you! I wish our community did a clean-up like yours does. What a great idea and way to recycle and pass along unneeded items to others. I hope you have a great week! See you again soon!
ReplyDeleteHappy spring and happy birthday! Everything is popping into bloom now here. Beautiful time of year. As for flowers, all I have are a couple of hanging baskets. Will wait a few more weeks for planting flowers in pots or the ground. We could still have a freeze at night.
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