smellyshellybelly

smellyshellybelly t1_j4jzcbt wrote

Joyce's in Essex, even though it closed last year. Amazing food at a good price with familiar, friendly waitstaff. Homemade egg rolls, homemade sauces, hand shelled peas...just haven't found that level of quality in another local Chinese restaurant, especially priced at barely more than the generic stuff.

It was my favorite restaurant for over a decade and I'm heartbroken that it's closed. It was the ultimate comfort food.

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smellyshellybelly t1_iyapz02 wrote

Growing up I wore a winter coat over my Halloween costumes more often than not and usually had snow on my birthday in early December. We had to shovel the roof a few times a year and would tap our small sugar bush on town meeting day.

Now Halloween is usually t-shirt weather, haven't shovelled a roof in almost twenty years, snow on Christmas is 50-50, and if you wait to tap on town meeting day the sugaring season is half over.

I plant my garden two weeks earlier now than I did growing up.

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