Speckly guys

Lilla Gubben in a more flattering natural light and side-by-side with Roy Lichtenstein (illustrating the size difference).




The clear plastic pot for the work orchid is here, too. I cut some holes in it, but it's impossible to get them even and neat with any practical and convenient cutting method. The plastic tends to split sometimes when you cut it. Miss Orchid Girl on YouTube suggests making the holes (outdoors) with "an old soldering iron", not something I have lying around, but I will keep it in mind. Anyway, it's lucky this is just a liner pot. I still need to get a new outer pot for it.

It's starting to get chilly enough that these guys won't be able to sit on the porch for much longer.

Slightly employed

I get a little bit more time before unemployment. The board had a meeting and decided they can't afford to just KEEP me without the subsidy, but they offered two months (to the end of October) at 80% of my current hours. I'll just have Mondays off. And they'll advertise the job and hope for applicants, planning for me to train them for two weeks. I'm honestly not sure how likely it is to find someone in that time or what will happen if they don't, but I'm glad to have a little more time. There still don't seem to be any very plausible alternatives that I would actually like - I would prefer to work at a little store, but they are mostly so small in town that they can't hire anyone.