Last night, I was walking home from the train. Bundled up in my winter coat with my hood on and moving fast trying to get out of that cold and blustery wind.
Then out of the corner of my eye, I noticed all these pink flamingoes in someone’s yard. In spite of the cold, I went back. What was that??!!
There was also a sign on the lawn saying, “You Have Been Flocked!” I literally laughed out loud and took out my phone to take this picture. Hilarious!!
Happy Wednesday to you!
Well, this is not a post I ever planned on writing. Soooo, last night a friend invited me to see King Lear. By the way, Joseph Marcell who played Geoffrey the butler in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” played King Lear. He was all in!
The weather was really bad last night. Serious wind and rain with the Nor’easter that has been hanging over the region. I was tempted to cancel, because I hate going out in storms when it’s really not necessary. Also, I’m in the middle of a big writing project and had to stop writing in order to go out. Hopefully I can get my writing groove back today.
As we were leaving the play, we were talking about how Shakespeare was so dramatic and over the top. I’m no Shakespeare scholar, but I was thinking that if he wrote for TV, his shows would be slapstick comedy with mayhem and murder mixed in.
Speaking of mayhem, that reminds me of those Mayhem Allstate commercials. Especially, because there is a tree on my house and part of my car. Well, really my landlord’s house.
Anyway, I think Shakespeare was dramatic and over the top, because life really is dramatic and over the top. The drive home was really bad and I was wishing that I had stayed in. On the expressway, huge waves of water were splashing up everywhere. When it’s like that, I drive slowly, so everyone was speeding around me.
When I exited in Quincy, there were lots of leaves and huge branches on the streets. Some of the street lights were out too. When I got home, I had to drive over two more huge branches to park. When I got out of my car, I stopped to look at the branches, but it was so windy and rainy that I decided that I had better just get inside quickly.
When I got in the door and was walking up the stairs, I heard a huge noise. G opened the apartment door and said, “Did you hear that?” I had heard something. It sounded like a really big branch fell on the roof.
It wasn’t until about twenty minutes later that G looked out the front window and saw branches covering all the front windows. That noise wasn’t a branch. It was the whole tree! When I was walking in the front door, the tree had fallen just seconds after. It was a good thing that I didn’t linger!
As you can see from the picture that I took earlier, some branches are on my car, but they don’t appear to have done any damage. The front door is totally blocked, so I went out the back way to take some pictures this morning. Hopefully the tree will be removed soon, but apparently the city is dealing with a lot of similar calls. I hope this is not a sign of the winter to come.
Earlier this evening, I went to Stop & Shop to quickly pick-up a few groceries. As I was parking my car (add the Boston accent if you like), I spotted this pink and purple truck and took a picture. I walked into the store and they were handing out free bags of popcorn, so of course I took a couple.
According to The Popcorn Board, October is National Popcorn Poppin’ Month. Until a few minutes ago, I didn’t know there was a Popcorn Board never mind that that this is the official month of popcorn poppin’.
The Boom Tour is in the Boston area right now and I just happened to walk smack into it. A Huffington Post article says that Angie Bastian started her business, BOOMCHICKAPOP, because she was trying to make some extra money to put toward her children’s college funds. She and her husband Dan turned it into a $50 million dollar business and their products are sold in all fifty states and Canada.
Looks like the kids won’t be needing student loans!
Have you heard of Park(ing) Day? It’s an annual event that takes place all over the world, where “citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places.”
The mission of PARK(ing) Day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat … at least until the meter runs out!
I think it’s the coolest thing and have seen pictures from events in different cities. Yesterday on Twitter, I saw that there was going to be an event in my neighborhood. So today, I took a break and walked down to the Wollaston Theatre.
On my old blog, I’ve written about how it’s such a shame that the Wollaston Theatre has not been open for many years. When I first moved to Quincy in the early 90s, it was open and I saw a movie there.
While I was at the Wolly Park-(In), I spoke to Kara from the Quincy Planning Department. She said that the event was a way for them to get into the community and talk to people about what they would like to see in Quincy. She gave me a slip of paper to write my wish for Quincy and to hang it on the Wishing Tree, which she said was a Chinese tradition.
I’m not sure if I’m supposed to share my wish, but it did have to do with the Wollaston Theatre opening up again. The current owner is Michael Fang. I hope that he considers it, because it’s a beautiful place and they don’t make theaters like that anymore.
Above are scenes from Park(ing) Day 2014 here in Quincy. Enjoy the pictures!
