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Today is Green Up Day here in Vermont. It’s the day when people all over the state volunteer to go out and pick up trash along the roadsides to keep our state beautiful. We did our part this morning and cleaned up both sides of the short dead end road we live on. It’s sad, the amount of trash that had collected there over the winter. Take care of your own trash, People!!! Put it where it belongs and don’t just throw it out your car window!!!

Okay, rant over.

Celebrations for this week:

My wild forsythia

We finally have flowers!!
Spring is here in earnest! The grass is growing, and the trees are budding. I love spring. It’s my favorite time of the year.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there in Blogland and everywhere! We’ll be celebrating with my Mom and Dad tomorrow.

What other celebrations are going on out there?

This week, I’m celebrating the wonderful warm weather! (Finally!) It has been sunny and 70s-80s all week. I’ve been raking like mad to get all the leaves off my lawn before the grass gets too tall. I can’t believe how fast it’s growing. The trees are leafing out, and two of my flowering shrubs are in full bloom. It’s so nice!

My overgrown forsythia bush.

My I-think-it’s-some-kind-of-rhododendron shrub.

I’m also still celebrating surviving the A to Z Challenge! This was my second year with it, and it definitely was more of a challenge this time around (sorry, no pun intended), because I didn’t get many posts written in advance and ended up writing most of them on the day they were to be posted, which didn’t leave me much time for visiting other blogs. The general crazy busyness of life didn’t help, either.

In spite of that, I enjoyed the Challenge and look forward to catching up with all the amazing A to Zs that I missed. So many interesting themes! Not only am I entertained, but I learn a lot, too. Thank you to all the co-hosts and their teams for monitoring and visiting everyone during this huge undertaking! What an awesome job!

What other celebrations are going on out there?