April Showers (& snow)...Bring May Flowers!

It's too bad that today is Thursday, cause we sure would have liked a day of this...

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Warm sunshine, blue skies, green grass...and minimal bugs (esp considering the biters are not out yet)

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It's heaven.
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When I took this pic, I had disturbed the pup from his restful nap in the sun during my lunch break from work. I actually said to him 'look up and smile.' Instead I got this annoyed look...isn't he so darn cute!
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Last June my grandfather, who is truly Grandpa GreenThumb when it comings to gardening, gave me several shoots from his raspberry bush. We dug the short stalks up, wrapped wet newspaper around the roots and I headed North to plant them in our yard.
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Never having been very good at caring for plants, I did not have great expectations...well it turns out, I was wrong!!
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Grandpa's amazing strain of raspberries survived and flourished through the summer, offering us a decent amount of late season raspberries. Already the stalks are tall and full...knock on wood, this might just be a great year for them!!
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We also have a touch of these along the fence, where we have stacked our freshly cut cherry logs.
Hubs calls them weeds and each year runs them over with the lawn mower...me, I think their just great and so will let them be for now.
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And of course we have many, many of these...
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which make for many, many, many, MANY of these.
It must be a good year for dandelions, cause we have plenty.
In fact there are so many it's enough to keep me busy trying to pull them all for an entire weekend!
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It's an absolutely beautiful Spring day here in VT!

Feeling inspired to grill tonight!!