Friday fun

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. The green chair is in the park at the South end of the Smith Avenue High Bridge.  Often when I walk by the park I see people sitting in the chair and posing for the camera.  I point that out so that you know my idea is not original. I took this picture in 2009 but I can still get into the chair because I did so last April.

If you don’t have a picture of yourself in the green chair you really should take one. The secret to getting into the chair is to climb up on the side near the back.  My husband is also in this photo. He wasn’t able to get into the chair.

Have a great weekend.

 

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. There will be some summer-like weather in the Twin Cities this weekend. My favorite way to beat the heat is to stay inside and read a book. There are zillions of books in the St. Paul libraries. If you don’t want to go to the library you can borrow electronic books to read on your computer, iPad, Phone, or Kindle. They have audiobooks too.

My daughter and I are keeping track of how many books we read in 2024. We often recommend books to each other. I’ll complete my 55th book for the year this weekend. I am not including the “how to” books and cookbooks I have borrowed from the library this year.

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. My cone flowers and lilies tell me that we have reached the halfway mark for the summer of 2024. We have about eight weeks of summer left here in the bold north. Early forecasts predict a colder and snowier winter for the winter of 2024-25.

Now is the perfect time to have your old furnace replaced and to consider more insulation and maybe even a new window or two. Get the snow blower tuned-up and send the winter coats to the dry cleaners.

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. Many years ago my mother gave me half a dozen primrose plants. They didn’t do much at first but after a few years, I had so many I was pulling them out or digging them out and giving them away. I have way more than what she gave me and over the years they have moved further away from the shade of the house.

My primroses are a reminder of my mother and her love of gardening and of primroses. She passed away a few years ago and the primroses remind me of the many conversations we had about gardening and of the time she caught me pulling them out like weeds.

Primroses are native to many places in the Northern Hemisphere. They prefer climate zone 5, but survived just fine in zone 4. We have been upgraded in the Twin Cities to zone 5b. The leaves and flowers of the primrose plant have medicinal properties but I wouldn’t eat them.

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.  I recently went to the local garden center to buy more herbs. I grow them in the house all winter and outside in the summer.  When I got up to the register to pay for my herbs, I told the clerk that my basket held “parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.  I thought maybe I would get a smile or something but it was clear that she did not get my reference to “Scarborough Fair” by Simon and Garfunkle.

After that, I had the song in my head all the way home. I think the person who rang up my order was in her late teens. I am a few decades older than that. I don’t consider myself old but I am definitely not young. I was in grade school when Scarborough Fair was released.