This Is Framingham

I know this is a touchy subject with some people but I’m glad the town has posted a sign about cars and bikes sharing the road.
As a bike rider I have had a few people drive by me and yell out something like “USE THE SIDEWALK!” and “GET OFF THE ROAD!”  I can understand if someone is driving and there are a group of bikers riding in triple file taking over the whole side of the road, that is frustrating and wrong but I’d like to point out that I really try to stay to the very far right, inside any white lines or breakdown lanes when possible.  I WANT to stay out of the way of traffic, I don’t get my thrills out of making any car slow down but I think the people who yell things like this should know a few things before they do so like if I’m not so close to the curb that my pedals are scraping it, there’s a reason.  Some drivers don’t realise the far right can be a debris field of various objects not safe to ride over  like broken glass, large branches, nails, crumbled pavement, road kill etc..
Also, (according to the Mass bike laws) in general, bicycles are not permitted on sidewalks.  Only outside business disctricts and when necessary in the interest of safety.  As a pedestrian, it can be uncomfortable to be taking a walk and getting surprised by someone zooming up behind you or someone coming at you who doesn’t slow down.  Or sometimes you can be faced with a swerving cyclist on the phone and doesn’t seem to care about having a steady path:

I know it might seem silly but when I’m riding in non business disctrics I still stay on the road because 1) there isn’t heavy traffic to avoid and 2) I’ll feel bad if I see someone walking their baby or a dog or just people talking to each other and they feel nervous having a bike come at them, but that’s just because I feel like that as a pedestrian.
My commute to work, is basically through downtown and 135 east to Wellesley.  I’m lucky there is a generous breakdown lane for most of 135 and it slims down in some parts but there are people using the sidewalk by the T stops and in random areas.  I just wanted to say I agree with the sign; just because someone wants to ride their bike doesn’t mean they’re fair game to yell at about getting off the road.

Maybe a little piece of school nostalgia for anyone who went to Marian?

Luke, does this mean you guys are getting a cafeteria makeover? : )

Driving by the old Ipanema the other day I noticed a sign saying a new Chinese restaurant called Red Pepper will be opening there.  As I’ve mentioned before I love Chinese food so I’m looking forward to another place to try. 
It’s kind of funny this place has gone from Irish tavern to Texan BBQ, to Brazilian and now Chinese. I think it was even a martini bar at one point too.  Anyway I’m looking forward to trying it whenever it opens. 

Last night Ethan and I went with our friends to The Melting Pot on route 9 (92 Worcester Rd.).   I love making fondue at home and I’ve made it for these friends at our house before so we were interested to see what this restaurant’s fondue would be like.
We were sat at our booth for 4 , all of the tables are pretty private with high backs and dividers between them, which is nice. does ivermectin kill lyme disease   Also all of the tables come with a heating surface that the server operates and adjusts to the type of fondue you are eating. ivermectin what does it do   We decided to go with “the big night out”, a kind of fixed menu but you choose the options.  We didn’t want to over do it and not make it to dessert so our server suggested ordering for three people instead of 4, so we did that and it was plenty, I’d say 4 people could even share it for two people.
We started off with traditional cheese fondue.  Our server, who was very competent and social (but not in a shmoozy way) explained the ingredients he brought to the tables and then started mixing them into the pot. 
 
With the cheese, we were served plates of cubed bread and apples and cut vegetables, all refillable if we ran out.
The cheese was really good, it was a little too thick since we would lose a cube of bread once in a while but it tasted great.

Next came the salads.  We got Asian, California and Mushroom salads.  These were nice to get a little green into the meal.  I ate the mushroom salad which looks a little weird but the dressing was very good and under that pile of thinly sliced mushrooms was nice bed of lettuce so after it’s mixed up a little it looks good.
  

For the meat-cooking fondue, we had some choices between oil that came with a batter or a broth and wine (and something else I forget)  we went with the broth and wine.  Again, our server came to the table with a plate of ingredients (like chives, mushrooms and wine) and explained them as he added them to the pot.  Served with this is a plate of vegetables and meats.  The meats were two types of steak, chicken, shrimp and ahi tuna.  Also serves with this is an assortments of dipping sauces like boursin cheese, teriyaki, curry, cocktail sauce and a few others. ivermectin canada covid 19

This was pretty good, although I think if you were to skip any part of the meal it might be this just because the cheese is so good and then later you can’t go wrong with dipping things in chocolate so if you had to pick, those two would be the way to go.
For dessert we got the “Ying-Yang”, which is half white and half dark chocolate, this is prepared in the kitchen and then brought out to the table.  With this we were served a plate of cheesecake, strawberries, pineapple, graham cracker and oreo crusted marshmallows, bananas and brownies.  These were all “refillable” too.  This fondue was really good, like I said you can’t go wrong with dipping things in chocolate so I wasn’t surprised that we all enjoyed it.
 
The only downside is that it’s very expensive, so I’ll stick to making fondue at home but I’m glad we tried it and we had a great time, we sat down at 6:45 and left a little after 10:00.  Our server, Patrick was excellent, he would come by and ask us if we needed any more vegetables or anything and his timing was great all night.   That, in addition to him being a nice person, really made our experience there very pleasant. 
I would recommend the Melting Pot, if you have some money to burn and want to try something different.

From google I found a link to the site “Urban Dictionary” that has a discussion between high school kids (I’m assuming they’re high school kids) about Framingham.
I don’t really know what to say about these posts but I guess they speak for themselves.  Some interesting reading from kids’ view of Framingham anyway.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Framingham

The Sub Way (510 Union Ave.) is right down the street from us.  I didn’t know what to think about this place since at first since I never really heard any word on the street about it but since it’s so close we decided to try it out.  We’ve gone there a few times now and I think it’s pretty good.  The guys behind the counter are always nice too.  We haven’t got pizza there yet (we will someday) but  we’ve been happy with their subs.

On our last visit Ethan got a ham and cheese and I got a chicken kabob sub which was very good.
 

The chicken kabob came with greek dressing and feta cheese, it was the best sub I’ve had there so far so I’d say I would recommend this place for subs- pizza is yet to be determined…

Although the 400 Plus does not deliver, one of us will sometimes walk over a pizza to Maenzo’s barbershop since it’s in the same plaza.  Thursday night is band practice where Tony (the owner) and his guys set up their stuff and play all sorts of music, though it seems they concentrate on rock ‘n roll stuff. para que sirve ivermectina en gotas
The band doesn’t really have an official name and they don’t go on tour or anything but they have a great time getting together Thursday nights and they sounded great.  If I didn’t deliver a pizza there, I’d never guess this goes on in the quiet corner of the Franklin St. (sad) plaza.  Just something interesting I thought I’d point. ivermectina para perros ml
Also, the band is looking for back up singers, a keyboardist and a bass player so if you’re interested, head over to 444 Franklin St. give children ivermectin? or give Tony a call at the shop: 508-872-1778