Sick Pumpkin

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

OK, there's this thing people sometimes do around Halloween, where you take a pumpkin and carve an unhappy face and then you take the innards of the pumpkin -- the seeds and goopy stringy orange stuff -- and pull it out through the mouth, so it looks like the pumpkin is barfing. (example)

Someone on Holland Street in the Davis Square area did this last month around Halloween, and had the said pumpkin on their front step. Was it you?

I just ask because my daughter, who is 2 and a half, goes to the Kindercare daycare in Davis Square and they apparently saw this pumpkin on their daily walk one day. And my daughter canNOT stop talking about it. It has been like a month and she still will say, "I saw a sick pumpkin when I was out walking. It was frowing up!" And when we're en route to drop her off at daycare she'll say "I don't wanna go for a walk and see a sick pumpkin!" Her teachers and I have been telling her repeatedly that the pumpkin is all better now ;) but it isn't sinking in yet.

Anyway, just thought you might like to know that your pumpkin made QUITE an impression on at least one local 2-year-old. ;)

Stolen Packages

[toastygw.livejournal.com]

Hi Folks -

Just wondering if anyone else has had packages stolen from their house recently?  In the past 2-3 weeks I've ordered a few things online (3 packages) - of those only the one small enough to fit in my mailbox made it into my eager hands...

2 packages were left on the porch (according to USPS and FEDEX) but I never saw them.

I would suggest that whenever possible you request a signature is mandatory for delivery of your packages or have them delivered somewhere else where they will be safe.

I live on Appleton street between willow and college ave - Anyone else since an increase in missing packages lately?

East Somerville Meets Davis Square Halfway

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

You are invited to help open Somerville's newest community Art Exhibition!

Come join us at the Opening Reception for Interpreting East Somerville.

Thursday evening at City Hall from 5:30-7:30pm.

Interpreting East Somerville features the work 43 local photographers
who have taken as their subject, one neighborhood in Somerville to
express their perspectives, their lives, and their interpretations.

Both large and small-scale works, from professional and amateur
photographers, capture the moods and colors of this diverse evolving
(and often misunderstood) neighborhood.

Exhibiting through January 2009, Interpreting East Somerville will
fill the concourses of Somerville City Hall with an eclectic range of
images from a new and exciting collective of artists and neighbors.

Come see great art, and apply for a marriage license at the same time!

Thursday 5:30-7:30 pm  November 20, 2008
Somerville City Hall 93 Highland Ave.

http://interpretingeso.blogspot.com/

Produced by East Somerville Main Streets

Special Thanks to the Mayor's Office, and Somerville Arts Council.