Free: Singer treadle sewing table

[mytheria.livejournal.com]

We've got an old singer treadle sewing table (no machine, just the cabinet) that we were going to restore, but have realized it's too far down the project list to devote space to it.
The cast iron is in good shape, the cabinet is solid, but the veneer needs a bit of love.
If you want it, it's yours. We're located in North Cambridge just off Rindge.
If nobody claims it by Friday, it'll go to craigslist.

( Edit: Photo here )

Free: Bar cart & Ikea shoe thingies

[tealegirle.livejournal.com]

Some things that need to go away, near Powderhouse Square. PM me for more info.

TAKEN Gray/black granite-topped wheeled bar cart (quite nice, just doesn't fit in our house). It's 26" wide x 22" deep x 35" tall, and has two shelves under the top and a towel bar on the side. The wheels also have brakes, so it doesn't swing around when you don't want it to.

TAKEN Ikea shoe cabinet, modular, white plastic. Their listing is here. There are three sections, each 20 1/8 " wide x 7 1/4 " deep x 15 3/8 " tall.

ETA: Y'all rock. Thanks!

From PEI - RICHARD WOOD & GORDON BELSHER at Johnny D's, Tuesday, March 5

[notlobmusic.livejournal.com]

RICHARD WOOD & GORDON BELSHER
Tuesday, March 5, 8pm
Johnny D's

$12 general admission. Reserved seating and dinner packages are available. http://www.johnnyds.com/advance-tickets/

Direct from Prince Edward Island, the acclaimed duo Richard Wood & Gordon Belsher will light the room on fire with their high-energy, high-quality music. Fiddler Wood and guitarist/vocalist Belsher are accomplished performers who routinely electrify concert halls up and down the east coast of US & Canada.

DAMN, that's one big-ass bird!

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

So there I was, walking down Malvern Ave. on the way to Yorktown to pick up something from a friendly FreeCycler, when from between two houses popped a very large and very angry-looking wild turkey! He was only about 7-8 ft. away from me, and due to the houses being built up from the street, he was pretty much at eye level to boot. Needless to say, I stopped dead in my tracks as he hopped down to the sidewalk, stalked across the street to someone else's driveway, and paced around the neighborhood for a while, giving everyone and everything in the area the stinkeye. I went on my way, picked up my item, and on my way back saw him still in the same driveway, looking pissed off, before he eventually headed up the street in the direction from whence I'd just come. I spoke w/a couple of people who were coming out of their house while he was still in the driveway, and they said "Oh, he's been here for several years," which, considering that coyotes have been spotted in the 'Ville (or at least in my part of it; I remember hearing about a sighting on Lexington Ave.), surprises me; then again, the turkey in question gives off sufficient "don't f&$! with me!" vibes that I can see how he's been left unmolested all this time.

EDIT: I just looked through the "local wildlife" tag, and saw that plenty of turkeys have been seen around and about the area, but this was my first up close and personal encounter with one, and I can definitely see why you wouldn't want to be on their bad side...

"Living on Earth" -- Have They Abandoned Davis Sq?

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

For years, I've chuckled when the host of the public radio show playing on WBUR would say, "From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville Massachusetts, it's Living on Earth." The studio is right in Davis Square.

Well, I hadn't listened in a while and this Sunday morning I hear: "From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston, this is Living on Earth." Has the show relocated into Boston?

This shows up on the LOE website: Living on Earth is located in the Back Bay area of Boston at the Colonnade building of the Christian Science Publishing Company. I couldn't find anything else on their website or with a quick Google search.

Rats!

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

Well, my place between Ball Square and Davis Square got rats this winter for the first time in the ten years I've owned the property. The contractor I often work with on issues around the house told me that many of his clients in the neighborhood have had rat problems this winter due to the construction near the train tracks on Lowell Street disturbing the little rat communities. Any truth to this? Have others experienced a similar problem? Do I bug the city about this, or do rats just "happen" from time to time?

The good news is that the pest people seem to have gotten the rats out pretty quickly.