Top ten reasons to love SPRING......

If you are like me, you are ready for winter to be over and Spring to arrive!  The weather in Maryland like much of the east coast has been nuts! Warm one day and 8"of snow the next. My mother bird best explained it...."It seems like winter and spring are duking it out!"  I keep telling my husband that I'm over it....it just seems that old man winter isn't listening.  If I run into him I'm sooo gonna punch him in the nose!

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To make life a little more bearable around the Nest I decided to focus on the things I love most about Spring, so here goes!

1. Strawberries are in season!  I could add strawberries to just about anything... Think Bubba Gump Shrimp. Strawberry pie, strawberry smoothie, strawberry pancake....you get the idea.

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2. I don't have to wear at least 3 layers to keep warm.  I just end feeling like the Pillsbury dough boy with the sweaters and coats. Yuck!

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3. My spring and summer wardrobe are so much brighter than my winter clothes.  Long gone are the browns and navies. Bring on the pinks, purples and greens!  Just kinda perks you up!

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4. I splurge and myself a fab pair of sandals.  Usually from Anthropologie...they have killer shoes!  A little pricey, but once a year I just gotta go wild and throw caution and my thriftiness to the wind.

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5.  I get to drink Mojitos without looking like a weirdo!  Really....it's a little odd to order a drink with lime juice and mint in the middle of winter.

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6.  It starts my pedicure season.  Being a thrifty gal...I feel guilty getting a pedicure in the winter.  I love when I can officially claim it's sandal season.  Let's be honest...there's nothing better than a great pedi!

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7. I start getting the itch to play in the dirt!  When my kids were younger I gardened like a mad woman!  Huge beds filled with overflowing flowers.  These days....I'm more about compact container gardens.  Small spaces that pack a punch. Eye Candy!!

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8. Asparagus is in season!  Just love it and it's sooo good for you.  One true down side.  Not gonna lie, it makes your pee stink!

9. Flea Market shopping is much better in warm weather.  The vendors drag out all their goodies and fill the dirt fields of flea markets will nothing but old fashioned....yup I said it....TREASURE!!! Love the dirt, grime and scrounging through piles of cr@p!!

10. Most favorite....drumroll....I get to work outside!  Dealing with paint, fumes, chemicals and the like I hate wearing a face mask!  It sucks!!!  I have a huge driveways to I just spread out a couple of drop clothes and go to town.  I spray and brush til my little heart's content.  Gotta love it!

I'd love to hear your favorite things about Spring!! 

Have a good one,

Robin

Needing a little downtime? Try playing in the dirt!

 

Last weekend we had a crazy big event at The Robin's Nest! Ok, it wasn't just me.... Chartreuse & co, the sales collective (crazy group of gals) I am proud to belong to had our twice annual Market Days. It was a mad dash to the finish line to get ready for this sale considering the regular March tag sale was only 3 weeks before.  Yikes! A little downtime was in order, let me tell you.  I was so inspired by all the amazing plant displays at the sale, I decided to take some time to play in the dirt this week to recuperate from the madness.  See...not everything I do turns into disaster! 

 

 

 

I am an avid gardener, or I guess I used to be.  I just don't seem to have much time these days to plant ginormous beds of rows and rows of glorious flowers.  What's a girl to do??? CONTAINERS!  You can use anything, I mean anything.  Just drill a hole in the bottom and voila....a planter.  If you can drill a hole in it, then just add some rocks in the bottom before you plop in the dirt.  I am lucky to have a gravel driveway, so I always have rocks at the ready.  (Side note...I also have 2 doggies so I have to be careful not to grab some dried doggie poo with the rocks.  This "could" be the voice of experience talking here...just sayin')  I'm really diggin' (get it, he he) succulents these days.  The vibrant colors are dynamite!  And, I've been told they aren't "needy" like bloomers (flowers, had to say it, I crack myself up!)  I'll let you know how it goes. 

Here are some of my latest containers.....it's what I had laying around the house.  (Side note...I so wanna call it a "compound", but Hubby says I'm nuts!  One house, 1 barn, 1 summer kitchen/cottage, 1 well house, 1 forgotten 15' satellite dish....it's a compound, right?) Back to the plants....

I've had this gutted alarm clock forever looking for the right project...it's found a home.

 

 

Got an old desk lamp around?  Rip out the guts (violent sounding, eh??) and add some "green" love!

 

 

Old silverplate serving dish that lost its shine...It's shinin' now!!!

 

 

Love that I found a mailbox with a teal flag...please Mr. Postman, don't take my mail!

 

 

 

 

Even milk glass compotes get used in my containers...(this is where the doggie poo incident happened.. add water to dried poo and guess what?  It stinks!!!!)

 

 

I'd love to hear/see what crazy wonderful planters you're using this spring!

 

Have a good one,

Robin