Bring Spring

Smash up the ends

I'm so done with this. I'm over it. It's just... I can't even. 

Have you been hearing this, from your friends or from yourself, about this Spring weather?

Unfortunately, that's too bad. It's only March. This IS Spring! This is what we signed up for! So what are we to do for our own mental stability?

Yes, you can take a vacation. You could bring me with you, too! But seriously, an even easier suggestion is to bring Spring to you. 

It can be really comforting to see signs of Spring, so go look for them. Get yourself a potted daffodil. Or a bunch of tulips. Or grab your gardening shears (which means you get to go through your gardening supplies! Yay!) and force some blooms indoors. 

Go find a forsythia or other spring blooming bush. Snip one or two branches that have lots of buds. Bring them back inside (quick now, it's COLD outside.) Grab a jar or something heavy with a blunt edge, and smash up the end of the branches. This will allow them to take up more water than just the small snip does. 

Now put them in a really simple vase- a small jar, an old pitcher, a bud vase. In a few days, you will have lovely bright yellow flowers brightening up your house! And in a few weeks, you'll have them outside too. I promise, it's coming. 

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Forced Forsythia blooms on the left, new branches for blooming on the right