Welcome Friday!!!

Yes, even when you’re retired, you can appreciate and enjoy the very Friday-ness of Friday. It still has that end-of-the-week-I-can-sleep-in-and-play-later feeling. You know whereof I speak, right? Of course, right!!(Thanks, Fiddler!)

It’s like you can play hooky from being an adult for two days.

Because , as we know, adulting is hard. It’s work. It’s being on the clock. It’s having a boss. It’s having to watch what you say. It’s political. It’s confronting. If you’re lucky it can be creative.

And it pays the bills.
And allows the time off work to be full of play.  And be a child again.

 

And that what makes Friday so special: it’s full of the anticipation of play.

How are you going to play this weekend?

Myself, I am going to start off the weekend by playing trivia with other listeners on WTIP,  North Shore Community Radio out of Grand Marais. I stream it via Alexa.  My moniker is “Bright Side of Brooklyn Park,” usually shortened to just “Bright Side.”
There are people from St. Paul (called “St. Paul Dining Room”) and Stillwater(“Backyard Stillwater Where the Hedgehogs Play”) and Rochester  (“Up the Cul-De-Sac”) who play in addition to North Dakota (“South of the Missouri River”).
There are those who play from Grand Marais: ” In The Bathtub,” “From the Lobby,” and “Just Outside the Window,” which kind of creeps me out!
“The Tofte Fire Department” plays as well.

Anyway, it’s play and a good way to start off the weekend.
Starts at 7 pm and goes to 8 pm.

Along with playing trivia, I also have two books that I have just started. Both of them are playful.
One is a Stephanie Plum book; I’m on “Hard Core Twenty Four” now. The other is a Nero Wolfe book by Rex Stout.

The latter main character was a rival for the Perry Mason books when they came out. There was a radio program of Nero Wolfe tales in the 50’s.   In 2000-2001, Timothy Hutton  starred as the intrepid Archie Goodwin, to Maury Chaykin’s crabby, orchid loving Wolfe. It’s worth seeing, the production values are stellar.
In the radio program, Wolfe is played by none other than Mr. Sidney Greenstreet. Those are also great. You can go online and listen to them free of charge.

The author, Rex Stout, is an interesting person all on his own. By age nine, he was considered a math prodigy in the state of Kansas, later spending time in the Navy as the warrant officer on President Theodore Roosevelt’s yacht.
He created a school banking system that was used across the nation, then retired from financing to move to Paris to write novels. There are 73 Nero Wolfe mysteries.

I will be happily busy for a long time!

 

 

This next part is about the title and came to me as I was sitting amongst the bellflowers in my perennial garden.  It’s the top picture. I was weeding. And it occurred to me that of all the grants that are given out for research, couldn’t there be one for developing bunnies who eat weeds??  It seems to be a no brainer to me, solving all sorts of problems. The people who now provide all the herbicides that you have to notify others if you use it by placing little signs in your yard, those companies could switch over to raising these little bunnies.  They could diversify by adding goats.

Well, at the time it seemed a good idea. Maybe I had been in the sun too long.

The second picture is of the base of a poppy that had shed its beautiful and vibrant red petals. I was struck by the symmetry and fuzziness of the base.

I guess it truly is all about the base.

Well, that’s what’s on my mind this Friday afternoon.  Remember to play this weekend. You owe it to your adult self to nourish your child self.

And smile. It makes people wonder what you’re up to!!

Love,

Janet