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Anyone have big plans for Earth Day? I'm hoping to celebrate by gardening with my friends and having a plant-based meal by a bonfire!

I visited Montour Run, AKA Hollow Oaks! I'd never been before but it was cool to see a new wooded area not too far from home. I learned that 700 acres and counted were put in trust to help with salamander conservation, so that was cool to read! I'll definitely visit again sometime soon.

Today we held a Staff Clothing & Household Goods Swap at work! It was great to see how excited people were to trade clothes. Even some of our teenage interns stopped by to look through everything! Very cute things. And we're donating everything that was left over.

Turns out my water usage is way below the average! It helps that I don't take long showers and am mindful about turning off faucets. It's really the shopping and meat-eating that contributes to the highest percentage of my water usage, but I'm working on reducing both of those anyway.

My dresser bit the dust this weekend, so I checked out my online neighborhood buy-nothing group and found an awesome midcentury-vibes dresser. Not only was it free, but made of great solid wood, and may have been thrown away if not picked up in time. I took the legs off my old dresser to reuse, and I am breaking down the wood from the old...

We went on a picnic in Schenley and were surrounded by litter! Definitely distracting from the beautiful view of the park. My friends and I took a moment to clean up the litter around us before settling down for our brunch. (Allegro's veggie breakfast sammies are SO good!)

I feel so much happier from the sunlight and less screen time!

Spend the afternoon outside doing landscaping and even planted a tree 🌲

We're planning an all-staff clothing swap next Tuesday, and I'm so excited to see items go to new homes and get donated at the end!