redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Jun. 21st, 2024 02:15 pm)
I just learned that they are closing my current dental office (which is in Watertown Square) in about a month. They're suggesting patients either go to Westborough, which is out past 495, or a Gentle Dental in Belmont, but my current dentist will be working entirely in Westborough. I can get to the Belmont office about as easily as to the Watertown one, but it looks like I'm changing dentists anyway, and am looking for suggestions.

I'm in Brighton, near the ends of the B and C branches of the green line, and being reachable by transit is more important than distance in miles as the crow flies.

I want somewhere that still takes some level of covid precautions (masking, air filtering, and/or good ventilation), and that won't have a problem with me only masking in the dental chair.
Longshot question: can anyone recommend an occupational therapist in or near Brighton, Mass., or reachable without a lot of hassle by transit (green line B or C is good, I haven't checked on bus routes yet)? I'm also planning to ask my health insurance company for in-network OTs.
[personal profile] cattitude has just sent a break-up message to Goya foods, having discovered via Twitter that their president is an ardent Trump supporter.

After twenty-five happy years, we are looking for other sources of canned beans worth the eating, and of olive oil.

My notes from Washington say that O Organics canned black beans are acceptable but bland, and Eden Organic navy beans are good.

I realize this is small potatoes compared to having to break up with a close friend or partner, or cut off a relative, for similar reasons--but I haven't had to do that (which may say something positive about my family). Speaking of family, boycotting food for political reasons was part of my upbringing--we did without grapes for years, to support the United Farm Workers.
I'd been thinking of growing some vegetables this year. When we moved in, I got the landlord's approval to get some outside planters, put them on a bit of pavement behind the house, and grow cucumbers or tomatoes.

That's looking less feasible, between the social distancing and not having a car, but I think we could put in the kitchen window herb garden [personal profile] cattitude and I were also talking about. I need either one of those herb garden kits I'm seeing online, or pots (probably), soil, and of course the seeds. Does anyone have recommendations, either "get this" or "don't get that"?

That probably means mail ordering, under the circumstances, though there's a hardware store in walking distance, once I'm done with this round of self-distancing. (In a normal year, I'd be calling Pemberton Farms and asking do they carry the things I need, but it takes two buses to get there from here.) Thus, I'm also looking for suggestions about places to order from, either by mail or a store that will deliver locally, where "locally" is Belmont, Mass. Not Amazon, not while the workers are on strike/talking about a strike.

One thing about the pandemic is that not having a car, nor even a driver's license, is a problem rather than an inconvenience. Having carefully found an apartment in easy walking distance of a good bus line (what the MBTA call a "key bus route") doesn't help much when we're being told to avoid taking buses if possible.
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