Have you checked out the Mushroom Shop on Medford St. in Somerville for morels?

Boston Homestel, and Hostel Y (YMCA).

Red squirrels are a different species than grey squirrels, but black squirrels are a gene mutation which can occur in either species. It's really fascinating. Melanism doesn't occur in humans but can be found in mammals, birds, and even lizards.

There's also melanism, which makes animals black.

There is a pair of melanistic squirrels that lives at MIT. I've seen them along Mass Ave in front of Buildings 1 and 5.

Sometimes birds are leucistic, making them partially or all white. It can happen to any animal. It's not albinism unless the eyes are also pale pink or red.

If we saw the shape of it we'd be better able to tell you what type of bird it is. This is what a fully white leucistic robin looks like.

We have a similar room, which is essentially a porch that has been converted into a room.

We were on a tight budget, so we thoroughly caulked all sides of the baseboards, electrical outlets, and around the window frames, put in a thick carpet and padding on the floor, heavy fabric drapes for the windows in winter (but we change them out in summer), and we use the plastic film and a humidifier in winter as well.

This helped a lot, but of course isn't enough when the temp drops below 20°F. At that point we use a 900 watt space heater, but it's only needed sparingly. That's the least expensive route, anyway.

David's Cookies online will ship you one for about $60.00

Or you could settle for the Cheesecake Factory's mango-key lime cheesecake.

Tous Les Jours in Allston has mango cream pastries but not cheesecake, unfortunately.

Don't forget Q's Nuts

Just be aware that any job working with kids requires a background check.

A double wide stroller should be parked outside like a bike, not brought into a crowded cafe. It's basic city etiquette.

Yes, Pill is open, but there used to be a large Ace Hardware closer to the MIT side of Central Square and that is gone.

Ace in Central closed down a while back.

You can rent a private room that has bowling lanes upstairs at the American Flatbread in Brighton.

The article doesn't say near Boston. It says they were visible in Massachusetts, because they were visible last night in places like Greenfield and Amherst. The headline says Massachusetts, but the article itself says New England repeatedly, and it doesn't mention Boston at all.

*Kafkaesque

I raised 2 kids in Cambridge without a car. They are 15 and 21 now and we're still living in Cambridge. Wear the baby, get a good sturdy walking stroller with plenty of storage for the neighborhood and a lightweight umbrella stroller for the subway.

Because we're the ones who get hit.

Drivers on Franklin have their view obstructed by the Cosmic Moose and they don't stop until they clear it if at all, which is far too often too late for the pedestrians they didn't see. They are so busy looking past the fence to see oncoming traffic beyond it that they completely ignore the crosswalk.

People in the neighborhood both drive and walk. Where else should they put the sign?

Someone should tell the pole about the lost bookcase. That was a nice ending.

You'd have to reschedule your trip to see any of the reenactments, but for a history nerd I think it's worth it. The Plimouth Pawtuxet living history museums are worth it too, but that's maybe for another trip.

I once watched one do a stealth operation to catch people fishing on a lake without a permit.

He got there well before dawn, slipped his boat into the lake and hid in the shadow of a ledge among the reeds. He'd wait until a boat would get way out into the middle of the lake and get settled in. After they'd make a few casts and get real comfortable, he'd come tearing out like a bat out of hell and swoop down on them. Then he'd write them a citation and force them to leave. He even took one guy's boat!

Rinse and repeat. It was the most entertaining ending to an insomnia-plagued night I've ever had!

Harney & Sons online is great, especially for samples, and it's free shipping in the US.

I've never seen them here in the city, but I have seen them in southern New Hampshire for the first time during the last 3 summers, and in the summer of 2019 Central Park in NYC was full of them.

Dead birds is better than a dead woman. RIP Elisa Lam.

If this was being delivered by USPS they will routinely mark a package as delivered with no intent to actually deliver it for 2-3 more days. They get payment incentives to deliver it within the window, but they don't even try to. Amazon doesn't care, as long as they tick the box. Wait and see if it arrives in a couple of days because if it was USPS it may not have been stolen.

If it was Amazon delivery or UPS, then I would just call the non-emergency police number and ask them if they can do it over the phone.

We have a room like that. We insulated the windows as everyone else has already suggested, put a thick rug down on the floor, but there were still strong drafts that were coming from the outlets and the baseboards. We put those baby-proofing plugs in any unused outlets, weather-taped around the covers, and then caulked the baseboards. If you can't manage caulk atm just use hot glue. It will peel up nicely in the summer when you are ready to caulk.

Make sure to use a humidifier, especially if you get a space heater.

We also found using a higher bed and not putting anything underneath it so that air could flow under the bed and move around the room helped a lot.