Part of my April showers experience was being nominated for a pile of awards. Of course, April having been the A-Z Challenge, I’m only catching up now.
Mark Bialczak nominated me for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award, which is ironic, but we will get to that in a moment.
Here are the rules for the Very Inspiring Bloggers Award:
State three things that have inspired you this week.
Nominate bloggers that inspire you.
Inform your nominees.
Three things that inspired me this week:
1) It seems Indianapolis businesses are unofficially sponsoring pansies, or pansies are trending, or on sale, or somethin, cause everywhere I look, I see patches and planters full of pansies. Not just one or two shades though, all of them, en masse: purple, orange, yellow, and white. Pansies are always a common choice, but so much so this year, I barely see any petunias, marigolds, or begonias. After maybe the twentieth booming pansy display, the peer pressure had gotten to me, and I conceded, “Alright, alright! Next year, when it’s time to add annuals, I’ll do pansies in all the colors!”
2) Someone wrote a poem about making love beneath an apple tree which inspired me to think about making love under our apple trees, and to only think about it briefly, because aggressive yellow jackets all day and nocturnally roaming half-naked neighbor all night, but I cannot deny the poem was inspirational, because the smell of the apple blossoms is nothing short of luscious, and the apple trees are throwing down a blanket of silky petals…
3) Someone said mowing the yard gave her a zen feeling, so I put down my 32oz Coca-Cola and frantically word-vomited, telling her maybe I should learn how to mow a yard, and I love zen, and good exercise, and the magic of Flonase. I blathered on about how big our yard is, and how seldom the weather matches The Mister’s schedule, and how hard could it be? The Mister said he will teach all of us. I may one day use a lawnmower, y’all! (It could be a chainsaw next!)
All of the blogs I read inspire me, in one way or another. I can tell I get inspired when I start typing a comment and it turns into an essay. When I get through all these awards, I’ll start writing the posts that other bloggers have inspired. If you are a blogger I read, and you want to accept this award nomination and run with it, please do. If I nominate you and you don’t accept, I totally don’t care and I completely understand.
Special thanks to the Very Inspiring Ramblings From Jewels, LindaGHill, No Facilities, My Friday Blog, and I told you, ironically, Mark Bialczak.
I’m off to work in the garden, planting some chives and sprouts, near the apple trees…
i’m sorry you can’t smell our apple trees from there
What can I say? Spring fever is full on!
joeyfullystated 
Thank you! I need to get after these awards. I really do appreciate the kind thoughts and I think I might have something to say about this one. Maaaaaaaaybe. I do have a few people I’d like to tag with this too. Thanks again!
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Congratulations Joey! You deserve it 🙂
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Congrats! I literally LOLd at the apple tree part. Ouch (and creepy)!!!
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(He’s not well. He’s harmless, but he’s not well.)
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Speaking of awards, I’m giving you one. Congratulations on your Nagzilla’s Star of Excellence Award!
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ZOMG Thanks! 😀
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Pansies are my favourite flower! 😀
Congratulations, Joey, and thanks very much again! 😀
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Congratulations!
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Please. Step away from the chainsaw. Do not approach the chainsaw. Promise. PROMISE?
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Just a lil chainsaw, Maggie. Just a lil one?!?
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Only if it says “Fisher Price”
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LMAO!
*pouts*
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Congrats! You’re on a roll! 🙂
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Thank you!
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Another award for Joey, and so well deserved, I find you very inspiring! I love that you were inspired by my poem and briefly thought about having a romantic little romp with the Mister under your apple trees. 😀 The photo is lovely, I envy your apple trees…
I hope you enjoyed your time in the garden today, I’m in my bliss with finally being able to plant, although my knees are quite dead after all the yard clean up from the hail yesterday.
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Ooh, yeah, sorry about your knees
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Bravo, Joey! I really enjoyed April in your company. It was a fun experience to be part of this A to Z Challenge and a great opportunity to meet new bloggers. Congrats, again, and enjoy the spring fever, much better than cabin fever.
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Thank you, I very much enjoy your posts as well 🙂
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We got ourselves an inspirational circle here, Joey. Thank you, you. And, by the way, I mowed my lawn today. Pictures and post tomorrow morning! We so think alike.
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