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Sugar coma for a good cause

Daily Heights announces a bake sale to benefit The Houston Food Bank.

The bake sale will take place on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY in the schoolyard of PS9 on St. Marks between Vanderbilt and Underhill [Google Map], from noon until…we run out of cake.

There will be lots of choices: cupcakes, cookies, brownies, pie, scones, and some vegan and wheat-free offerings. Come by, make a donation, have a snack, meet the charming denizens of the messageboards.

If you want to help at the sale or drop off baked goods, please come comment in this thread.

Feel free to crosspost this information!

What has a bell and isn't Mr. Softee?

Lo, it’s the knife grinder!

Now, I’ve never before lived in place where a knife-grinder came around, and I have some sewing scissors that need to be sharpened frequently, inconveniently, and usually at unreasonable expense. So I grabbed them and dashed outside in my slippers…
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