Friday fun

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. Gardening is a favorite hobby of mine. In general, I like plants more than I like some people.

Real estate is the busiest in the spring. Even in the years when home sales slow, spring is still busier than any other time of the year. A significant portion of our business happens in May and that is also when the vegetable and flower gardens need to be prepared and planted.

Most years I don’t think that I will have time for a garden but I always find a way. Here in the bold cold North starting a garden in June works too. The tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers don’t grow much until the daily low temperatures are above 50 degrees. My yard is on a limestone river bluff which means the soil is warmer and we have excellent drainage.

This is the first year that I don’t have a firm plan for my garden but I am sure I will come up with something.

Gardening is worth the work. A longer growing season would be nice.

 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  Spring should start up again early next week. Expect tulips and crabapple blossoms. The spring flowering season is short, don’t miss it.

 

 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. Every spring I walk to 90 Plato blvd to drop off my payment for the first half of our Ramsey County Property taxes*. Yes, I am well aware that I can pay them online and that is usually how I pay the second half.

I walk over the high bridge and down the hill to Plato and drop off the payment and then walk along plato to Wabasha street and then over the Wabasha street bridge to Kellogg Blvd. and then to West 7th and then home again. It is a lovely walk on a spring day and it is a reminder to me that I am privileged to have the time and energy to make the 3 mile walk and am fortunate to have the resources to pay those exorbitant and ever rising property taxes.

I took my property tax walk yesterday. I enjoyed the views of the river along the way.

*If you live in Minnesota your property taxes are not due until May 15, 2024.

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. I walked the skyways to get home from a recent trip to the Union Depot. It was cold that day but mostly I chose the skyway as a way to avoid traffic from an event at the Xcel Center.

The photos are of the skyway between 4th and 5th street at Robert Street. There is often art in the skyways. I liked this but didn’t notice the eye until I got home and looked at the pictures. In fact there are two dragons. Now go find them and have a great weekend.

Next time I walk that skyway I am going to stop and talk to the dragon.

 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. it is also good Friday which isn’t meant to be fun but it can be.

My husband and I were talking about spring break. Neither of us ever went anywhere when we were kids during spring break. When I was in college I worked at a job during the breaks. I needed the money to pay my tuition. I was privileged because I had a roof over my head rent free and generally had enough to eat. I think I was well into adulthood before I learned that spring break is a thing and even a right of passage for college students.

I never heard the term “gap year”  until a few years ago. Apparently people take a year off in between high school and college and travel. I could have taken a gap year. I never thought of it, nor did I know anyone who was taking a gap year.  I may not have been able to travel for a year but I probably could have traveled for a few months.

Now that I am older and wiser I am thinking about taking a gap year. Most people near my age are thinking about retiring. I think a gap year would be more fun and at this point I have earned it.

You might be privileged if you had a gap year or if you get to travel during spring break.

 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.