I walked around Cutler Park today for the first time in several weeks. Just when I left my building something big flew like a bat out of hell towards the p0nd. My first reaction was “pigeon” but it wasn’t. I think it was a falcon, maybe a merlin. By the time I got halfway along …
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Saw-Whet
For the first Sunday in a month I went to the bagel store to buy breakfast. It was pretty late and they were out of bialys, or I would have got one of those too. Speaking of food, did I mention that on the way back from the caning shoppe on Saturday we stopped off …
Great Swedish Consumers
Every once in a while we go on a shopping spree and Arlene says to whomever is listening, “Today we were the great American consumers.” Today it was more like the great Swedish consumers. Yes, fans, we’ve been to Ikea. We were looking in particular for lamps and a TV stand for the house in …
Caning store
We drove back to Charley’s apartment (he followed, but was much later than we were because he got stuck behind a funeral which we barely missed) and walked to the Mexican place, I think it’s Rudy’s, in Teele for a big lunch. Then I persuaded Arlene to let me go to the caning shoppe to …
Charley at Cambridge Art Association
Charley is in a 3-person show at the Cambridge Art Association. He’s one of two photographers who are mostly showing nudes, but neither is showing much in the way of whole people. Charley has lots of close-ups that are obviously body parts but not clear on just what, and several multiple exposures or, really, multiple …
Wildlife?
I had to go in to work late this evening to check on the results of my tests. On the way down Winchester Street, near the Nahanton Street end, I saw an animal in the middle of the road. It was pretty small, nowhere near big enough to be a deer. I slowed down so …
Overheard in Dry Mills, Maine
… while I was paying for a quart of oil, conversation between the woman behind me in line and the woman I was paying: “Guess who got to hold the urn. Me.” “Better you than me.” “It was kind of creepy. My brother. They brought him for Christmas.”
PT
I almost forgot that I had an appointment for physical therapy for my neck today. It was out in Wellesley, at Sports and Physical Therapy Associates. My left hand tends to start tingling from time to time. The therapist said my neck muscles were really tight on that side. She gave me some exercises, put …
This, too, is fiber
OK! So here’s the photo story of re-rushing that chair. The seat is wider at the front than the back. When I took it apart I found that there were lots of tacks holding the paper rush material, which looped right back to the front rail rather than going all the way to the back. …
Good birds
I walked around the (largely frozen over) pond next to work today. Arlene came over at lunchtime yesterday to walk and we didn’t see any birds to speak of. Today I saw a red-breasted nuthatch and a brown creeper. Those aren’t really rare birds, but they’re things I’m happy if I see a couple of …