It is Friday, and Fridays are for fun. I have a collection of coleus plants. I grow them outside in the Summer and indoors in the winter. Most of my plants were stolen. I pinch a stem with a few leaves on it from plants I find in the late fall, shortly before or after the first frost.
Coleus will die in the winter. They are annual plants. I take the stems and put them in water until they grow roots. I plant them in small flower pots and enjoy them all winter. By spring, the plants are large. I cut off stems and propagate some more plants. When it is warm enough, I plant them outside.
I like coleus because it is so easy to grow and it is colorful.
It is Friday, and Fridays are for fun. I am just a little tired of the heat and smoke. I have to remind myself how wonderful it is that I don’t have to shovel snow. Happy August!
It is Friday, and Fridays are for fun. I have always loved to garden. With all of the rain we have had this year, the garden is spectacular. The coneflower plants are almost five feet tall, and the tomato plants are taller.
The monarch butterflies are starting to show up, and so have the bees.
It is Friday, and Fridays are for fun. I went to a local store, and they are all decked out for Halloween. As near as I can tell, Halloween is still at the end of October, or 116 days from when I took the photograph in this post.
I totally get why this is happening. Christmas stuff hits the shelves in August, leaving little room for Halloween decorations. July is the beginning of the holiday season. Enjoy!
It’s Friday, and Fridays are for fun. Apparently, it is tough for recent college graduates to find work, or maybe it is just hard to find a job. The unemployment rate among recent college graduates is over 6%.
Looking back to when I graduated, the unemployment rate was in the double digits, 13% at one point. We were headed into a recession. I couldn’t get a job. I used rejection letters to paper a wall in the kitchen of an apartment we lived in at the time.
My goal was to paper the whole wall because I figured I needed that many rejections before getting hired. I ended up with a full-time job working for a past employer. It was a crappy job that lead to a string of crappy jobs. They were low-paying jobs with tyrannical, narcissistic bosses. I got my first decent full-time job in the summer of 1988. A job that paid well and with excellent benefits. Heck, I even had dental insurance back then. 🙂
I have had two jobs and temporary jobs. For most of my adult working life, I have been an independent contractor. Most of the time, I have had a side hustle. I haven’t had a traditional job in 25 years, and I don’t miss it.
My advice to recent college graduates is to try to find work instead of a job. Sometimes it is better to have many employers than to have one employer who can fire you at any time. When ready, start your own business. If it doesn’t work out, start another.
Get used to and be comfortable with the idea that jobs are only temporary. There is no such thing as “job security”.
It is Friday, and Fridays are for fun. The Summer Solstice begins at 9:41 this evening. That means today is the longest day of the year with the most hours of daylight, and by tomorrow, the days will start getting shorter.
Wishing everyone a happy solstice.
water lily
The photo was taken at Como Park, which is a great place to enjoy summer.
