While visiting the laundromat at sad plaza on Franklin St. we thought it was funny that they leave closing up the place to the last customer to get their stuff out of the dryer. It’s good to see such trusting business-customer relations 🙂
Sometime last week, during our now seemigly daily trend of passing thunderstorms, we got a nice view of a rainbow over Route 9 by the Framingham pike entrance.
As a quilter, it’s such a treat to have Fabric Place in walking distance of my house. I really like that it’s a business near me that I can use and has a wide variety of anything sewing related. It’s also a business that brings people who normally avoid downtown, down here so I consider it a shiny gem of the neighborhood.
They have bolts and bolts of all sorts of fabric, all kinds of threads, notions, books etc… It’s two levels of sewing paradise!
They also offer classes, designing services and make custom draperies. This summer they are offering a free class every Saturday of various topics, you can check out the schedule here.
The other day I was working in the yard and realised I’d need some grass patch stuff. My first instinct was to go to White Hardware, conveniently located a few blocks away but the pain set in when I remembered that they recently closed.
For some reason I had it in my head that Monick wasn’t open Sundays (but they are) so I was weighing my options. I really don’t like going to mega-store Lowes or dealing with all the traffic lights and the whole atmosphere of Home Depot so what came to mind was taking a trip “up north” to lovely Saxonville and going to Robinson’s ACE.
When I first moved back to Framingham (3 years ago now) I was bummed that Lincoln Discount Drug was gone ( I just had a “thing” for Lincoln Drugs, particularly the Milford store) but I have to say that Robinson’s uses the space well and it’s kept up nice. The few times I’ve been here, I found that the place is well organized and the staff is really helpful and friendly.
Such was the same for this visit, it might have been a little further to drive to than Lowe’s but the pleasant shopping experince was worth it.
The plaza parking lot is probably just as big as Lowe’s but it’s not an ocean of cars and there’s not a frenzy of people trying to find a good spot. I just parked and went in, got what I wanted, walked up to the register, paid and left. No lines, no wandering a warehouse packed to the ceiling, moving out of the way for an employee riding through the store on a motorized forklift- just a simple, straightforward shopping experience.
I’ll place Robinson’s Ace in the coveted “yay” category. It’s worth a trip up north any time!
My friend Yana told me about “Boneoke” on Wednesday nights at the Chicken Bone on Waverly Street. It’s Karaoke but with 2 musicians and no screens to read the words from. ??????? ??? ?????? It sounded interesting so I went with her to check it out.
Scott Damgaard is the guitarist and runs the show every week. I got to talk with him last night and he’s also one of the nicest guys around. ????? ????? ????? ????? He has a book of 500 songs that you can pick from, but he’s also open to suggestions and may know a song you’d like to sing that isn’t listed in the book.
Somehow I didn’t trust myself to know all the words to any of these songs, I couldn’t believe it – but I know now what I will study for next week. Although, you don’t have to study as some people brought a lyric sheet or read the lyrics off their cell phone. ???? ????? ???????
It’s a very comfortable atmosphere, even I (who hates getting up infront of people) wanted to get up and release my inner rock star (although it doesn’t exist, but I really wanted to try!). Scott will even let you take over the guitar if you’re so inclined:
Here’s some more pics of Boneoke:
We had so much fun, I’m so glad Yana told me about this and I’ll definitely be back (probably with a lyric sheet). I’ve always loved the Chicken Bone’s wings but this gives me a whole new reason to this gem of downtown.
For more info on the Chicken Bone, check out their site:
http://www.thechickenbone.com/
and Scott Damgaard: http://scottdamgaard.com
I was a little reluctant to make this post because I like to support local business but I felt it might be helpful to anyone who is considering ordering flowers or gift baskets in the area.
My sister who lives on the west coast was shopping online to have a gift basket delivered to Ethan and me for our anniversary a couple of weeks a go. She picked Seavers Flowers on Concord St. and ordered a “Gourmet” food basket and although it said all orders placed by 1pm will be delivered that day, she went ahead and ordered a few days before just to be safe and received conformation via email when she placed her order.
From their site:
My sister called me Saturday morning and said she didn’t want ruin the surprise so she wouldn’t say what it was but wanted to make sure someone would be home Saturday to recieve a delivery. So I waited until Ethan woke up to run some errands and then came home and later in the afternoon had to go out again and checked with Ethan to see if he was planning on going out so that one of us would be home.
I got home around 5 and still no delivery. My sister called and was surprised that we had not received anything- she tried calling but Seaver’s closes at 5 and does not have voicemail, they’re closed on Sundays, so she called Monday. ivermectin for sale in canada
When she got someone on the phone she explained what happened and that it was for an anniversary and she had recived confirmation of the order and it’s delivery date but it never arrived . She told me the guy just responded with “ok”. So she said “Well I’d like to cancel the order and have my card credited the amount since it never arrived and he just said “okay, I’ll look it up and cancel it”. The guy told her he’d call her that afternoon to let her know that her card was credited but he never did so she had to call the next day and got confirmation. ivermectin broward county
The guy at Seaver’s wasn’t obnoxiously rude, but he never apologized or made any effort to somehow make her want to use their flower shop again- she just got the feeling they didn’t care. As a customer she trusted that they knew how to follow through on what they offer. goats prohibit ivermectin wormer Maybe they just had an off day, but this was my sister’s experience and I thought this might be helpful to share it.
Ethan and I went to check out Flag Day at Chushing Park. Despite the heat, it was really nice to walk around have something interesting going on at the park.
There were tents with vendors and information tables set up by the entrance. We didn’t end up buying anything but there was a good variety of tables set up with merchandise, crafts and kids treats. beuotq
We really enjoyed was the Civil War camps that were set up in preparation for the fictional “Battle of Farm Pond” staged just for this event. ??? ??? ????
As we walked through the camps, I was impressed how no one looked like they were about to faint considering the heavy clothing they were wearing and how hot it was. We were breaking a sweat just wearing shorts and T-shirts so I can imagine how hot these folks were.
The camps are realistically functioning and they do everything from chopping wood for the fires they cook with, to hanging laundry. ????????? ?? ?? ????
Flag Day will go on again through tomorrow, Sunday the 15th too so if you missed it today you can still check it out.