You know we slammed on the brakes and rushed right across the street to Hardware City on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain when we saw that sign this afternoon (OK, after we got some ice cream at J.P. Licks first). We're cheap, so we got one of the $9.95 50-pound bags of common rock salt, rather than one of the $39.95 boxes of special stuff that's safe for dogs' paws and tastes good in cassaroles.

But being Rozzie types, what were we doing in JP? We'd gone out in search of bizarre stuff left in the street to save spaces in the street. Roslindale really let us down today - all we saw were a lot of recycling bins, a few plastic chairs and a couple of traffic cones. The most interesting thing we saw was a recycling bin filled with beach toys and a broken golf club (and when I stopped to take a picture, this lady rushed out of her house demanding to know why I was taking a photo; I think I managed to convince her I wasn't a city inspector). Come on, people, I know that you can do better!

So we headed over to our neighbor to the north, where we saw nothing more interesting (but did notice that the Jamaicaway castle guy not only still has his giant heart up, he's still lighting it).

Earlier in the day, we'd gone to Panera Bread in Dedham for lunch. We stopped to let Greta "skate." Don't worry - she's not on some river, but on Billings Field in West Roxbury, which is now a giant sheet of ice:

Next to the field, some melting roof ice was freezing again on some ground-level bushes: