Author: doug

Bookcases for the new loft, not yet hatched from their cardboard shells.

If god intended for us to eat lobsters, he would have made them very tasty.  Oh wait.

More beer stores should have a map.  Actually, more beer stores should need a map.

They’re digging in the road in front of my office.  I could almost hear the swearing from my desk when they found granite cobblestones beneath the asphalt.

We declare a draw this evening: in this hand, one meld wound up with two black 10s and we’re unclear whose fault that was.

The inaugural West Newton Farmers Market was held today. The city closed off one block of Elm St. to make space. The number of vendors is on the small side, but there’s enough variety to keep me coming back.

We bought a new air conditioner for the bedroom this year, freeing this one up for the first floor.  I didn’t think we’d need it this early in the season.

The city replaced the streetlights on our street with LEDs today. (And it’s our light pole and the guy’s bucket truck that are crooked, not my photo.)

Roofers picked today, the start of a stretch of the hottest weather so far this year, to start replacing the roof on historic Quincy City Hall.  I’m sure they were thrilled to find a 2nd layer of older, browner shingles underneath.