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magidQuery: what fabric would you use instead of cheesecloth in food prep if you wanted something reusable?
Happy Juneteenth! Now a holiday in MA, too! (Thanks to Hammercock for the link.)
It's strange listening to songs I knew as a teenager, realizing that I only knew the refrain, if any words at all. Now, the words are clear; then, not nearly so much (with heavier rock, anyway). My only theory is that my hearing is less acute, so there's less competing with the words.
Beacon St. outbound in Brookline being reconfigured between St. Mary's St. and Coolidge Corner so it will be two lanes instead of three. Which is fine (if likely to make traffic more interesting, especially if the dedicated left turn lanes are deleted), but it doesn't look like they're using the extra space particularly well. The angled parking on the left is still there in the same place, as are the other lanes; there's just a rumble strip where the last dashed white line used to be. It would've been great if they'd shifted the lanes over a bit and added a bike lane. (And until they move the street signs on the left, they look really silly with so much pavement around them (not sidewalk).)
News of the strange: scientists have set up a dolphin chat line for the child (calf?) of deaf dolphin to learn to talk correctly.
For thems that are in Kendall Square: there are free concerts every Thursday, noon - 2 pm, June 7 through September 13.
Yesterday's fauna note 1: someone rode a horse on the city side of Storrow Drive early yesterday morning, given the manure evidence. It seems an odd place to ride, if one has a horse in the city at all. (I can't imagine that either the mounted police or the horse-drawn cab people would bring their horses there; it's not the pretty, water side of the highway, and it's noisy with all the passing traffic.) Odd.
Yesterday's fauna note 2: in the evening I saw what looked like it might be red-tailed hawk swoop into the rafters under Route 93, just south of Assembly Square Mall. Very cool.
Happy Juneteenth! Now a holiday in MA, too! (Thanks to Hammercock for the link.)
It's strange listening to songs I knew as a teenager, realizing that I only knew the refrain, if any words at all. Now, the words are clear; then, not nearly so much (with heavier rock, anyway). My only theory is that my hearing is less acute, so there's less competing with the words.
Beacon St. outbound in Brookline being reconfigured between St. Mary's St. and Coolidge Corner so it will be two lanes instead of three. Which is fine (if likely to make traffic more interesting, especially if the dedicated left turn lanes are deleted), but it doesn't look like they're using the extra space particularly well. The angled parking on the left is still there in the same place, as are the other lanes; there's just a rumble strip where the last dashed white line used to be. It would've been great if they'd shifted the lanes over a bit and added a bike lane. (And until they move the street signs on the left, they look really silly with so much pavement around them (not sidewalk).)
News of the strange: scientists have set up a dolphin chat line for the child (calf?) of deaf dolphin to learn to talk correctly.
For thems that are in Kendall Square: there are free concerts every Thursday, noon - 2 pm, June 7 through September 13.
Yesterday's fauna note 1: someone rode a horse on the city side of Storrow Drive early yesterday morning, given the manure evidence. It seems an odd place to ride, if one has a horse in the city at all. (I can't imagine that either the mounted police or the horse-drawn cab people would bring their horses there; it's not the pretty, water side of the highway, and it's noisy with all the passing traffic.) Odd.
Yesterday's fauna note 2: in the evening I saw what looked like it might be red-tailed hawk swoop into the rafters under Route 93, just south of Assembly Square Mall. Very cool.