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Let's SPRING into Action!!!!

22 years ago

Happy Spring Everyone!!!!

Yep, it's official. It's flower time, mother nature wake up time! May not seem like much to folk in much warmer climates but to those of us who live in the colder regions - yippeeeeeeeee!!!!! I'm a bouncing today!

It's also Mother's Day in the UK. So Happy Mother's day too!

Today is a good day to pick yourself up. Dust off the old dust - pop by Kathy's thread and get sprinkled with her magic dust - and get that foot forward towards your goals. Even the smallest of changes will make a difference in the long run.

Pat yourself on the back today for just being here reading posts and thinking good thoughts about yourself.

We all have life's ups and downs to face but lets try to make something positive out of the first day of spring. Get moving. Get out. Clean your windows and let that sun in!

It's time to Spring into Action!

McPeg

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Comments (4)

kathy_
22 years ago
Good morning!
I hope you are enjoying that dust because it is backfiring for me - I gained a pound! Now where in the heck did that come from?? If this keeps up I am going to strip nekked in the hallway of the doctors office before I hit the scale. I am racking my brain about what I ate and nothing is showing up. I want new genes!!!! Well I guess my plateau is over anyway :-Hubby wanted to go out to eat for lunch but that won't happen.
I have ageratums, coleus, zinnias and brocolli sprouting in bread pans on the windowsill. I love seeing those little green plants!
Today looks nothing like spring - cloudy and a passing snow shower went by.
I am loving my new camera. Oh geez I sound like that annoying McDonald's commercial.
We were supposed to have sunny and warm weather today but now that has been cancelled - darn. Wanted to go to Gettysburg and take pictures.
The dogs are snoozing but we all need to get out and get some exercise so I better go. They found the field the road has fresh manure spread and went there the other day - bad dogs!! Sage is still a little "gamey" even though I washed her.
Have a great spring!
Kathy
maryanntx
22 years ago
Hi!!! I needed this thread, McPeg!
I've been so lazy during my Spring Break (and loved every minute of it!) I've eaten more than I should and I know I will pay for it when I weigh on Wednesday!
Our weather has been perfect here all week. I mowed the front yard a couple of days ago and plan to mow the back today. My yard is so big and has so many tall weeds that have popped up with all the moisture and warm weather that we've been having!
Everything is green, the trees already have green leaves on them and my purple martins are flying all around their house. I didn't even get it cleaned out this year! My pear tree is covered in white blooms! I heard a hummingbird yesterday and know if I will put nectar in their feeder that I will have visitors right away. Everything looks like it should in the Springtime. Yesterday I drove to a near-by town to hit the garage sales and the wildflowers are popping up everywhere! I even saw lots of bluebonnets! I love this time of the year. Now, if I didn't have to work I would be even happier!
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Megalaster is one of those hot & humid Hoyas and has pretty big leaves, so I always avoided it. But I was feeling irresponsible this year, so now I own it (like an idiot.) That's neat your tenuipes is preparing such a big show. I can't ever remember whether this is the australis that has a bad reputation for blooming or a good reputation for blooming, but mine sure hasn't shown any signs of cooperation, other than outgrowing the others. I have a cousin (once removed) living in outback farm territory in WA and after chewing her ear off about Hoyas native to Australia on her last visit, I guess she's finally discovered she was growing a Hoya all along. But I think it's a carnosa b/c she says the flowers are "kinda pink." Which she gets no credit for at all (!!), because as far as I'm concerned, all Australians should grow rupicola, my favorite australis!! And pick it by hand in the wild. Is that too much to ask, Australians? I, in turn, promise to go find and grow aÃ¢ÂÂ¦ umÃ¢ÂÂ¦ Swamp Milkweed. Same cousin has decided she's going to visit Dec-Feb this year b/c she wants to see snow. I'm not trying to start a my-winter-is-harder-than-your-winter competition b/c I live in Omaha which has super easy winters. But I have to say that the geographical location in Iowa where my parents, in their infinite wisdom, decided to establish their farm, has got to be the least fun winter spot in the U.S. It's not the shimmery sunny ice castle ice-fishing snow-shoeing winter wonderland Minnesota becomes. It's like that scene in Little House in the Prairie where they tied a rope between the house and the barn to be able to find their cow and not die lost in a field. You literally spend the whole winter trying to get out of one snow pile, only to become stuck in a different snowpile down the road. So, that's a round-about way of saying she'll be stuck listening to my rupicola sales pitch with no means of escape.
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BeverlyAL
22 years ago
Spring is "busting" out all over here too and it is sooooo beautiful. There are a lot of pink and white blooming trees. Some are Bradford Pears but others are some types of ornamental fruit trees. Other trees are getting their new spring green haze on them and some of them even have little leaves. The new green on the weeping willows is so pretty. The forsythia, tulips and daffodils are in bloom and I just love Spring so much.
quiltingbunny
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22 years ago
This is just what we needed for our spirits and to get us all outdoors more! Let's get moving and shake our booties!
Great stuff!
McPeg

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