Aside from the whole entitlement thing, I'm left wondering what this small thing (maybe 18 inches high) is normally used for. Dual Tinker Toys holder?

Laura Scannell peers down the commuter-rail tracks in Roslindale.

Storm knocks out service in Brookline, Roslindale, no doubt points inbetween, but how can you report if your Internet is broken and you don't have, oh, a 'Net-enabled smartphone?

Unless you want to get a flat from all the broken glass left behind from an accident earlier today.

The Bulletin reports the Roslindale BPL branch will be closed between Jan. 5 and 20 so its old oil burner can be replaced with a new gas furnace.

Anyone know of a place in West Roxbury or Rozzie (or nearby) that still has Christmas trees for sale, and what their hours are if known? All out at Home Depot in WR and Lowes in the Dedham Mall. In fact, it looks like they have been all out for a while. A charity-based sale would be good but we're not too fussy at this late hour.

Thanks

For whatever reasons, our street still has the old-fashioned "white" street lights instead of the yellow/orange sodium-vapor lights. And tonight, some of them were sprouting icicles.

Don't you just love going outside to see that your neighbor just kept going with his snow blower and cleaned your sidewalk, too? Thanks, Marcos!

Seven inches outside our house at 9 p.m.

Two hours before the snow started, a dump truck went down the street laying down a layer of salt. As I type this at 4 p.m., we've had at least four passes by plows/salt trucks.