Pretty neat how the top comes right off. Convertible, fuel efficient and sharp. Not a bad combo.
Smart Car Interior Picture, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Smart Car Interior Picture
Month: August 2008
Smart Car
Block Party Gloucester Bumper Sticker
Looking forward to the first picture from an exotic place with a GMG Gloucester sticker!
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GoodMorningGloucester Tree Project
I’ve been batting around this idea for a couple of weeks now.
There is a strip of grass to the right of the East Gloucester Richdale Store. The area is just begging for a strip of flowering trees to be planted there. I honestly believe that with a few trees planted on this small lot it would give the entire neighborhood there a newly revitalized feel. I never really noticed the strip of grass, it always seemed like all pavement but with the addition of some flowering cherrys on chanticlear pear trees it could be spectacular.
Here’s the idea- the GMG Bumper stickers remain completely free but if you would like to donate $1 or a couple dollars for one I will keep a running total in the right hand column of any donations toward the purchase of the trees for the strip of grass.
If anyone would like to donate toward that cause just bring whatever dough you feel would be appropriate for your budget.
Imagine for just a few measly bucks you could be part of something that would be there for the rest of your life, passing by and actually benefiting from the beauty created by your small donation.
Oh, and don’t feel funny if you take a sticker and not donate. Not a problem at all.
I’ll start the fund out with $20 of my money just to put my money where my mouth is. Hell I’ll get far more than $20 worth of enjoyment watching the trees grow year after year knowing I might have been part of making it happen. So look in the right hand column for the running total.
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CJ Morgante- Day Two Aboard The Lady J
If you’ve been following along you know that CJ Morgante, Major League Soccer Referee asked for the real Lobsterman experience. Frank set him up on three different boats to go lobstering in three days. That’s pretty cool if you ask me for a boy from Pennsylvania with no ties to Gloucester to just roll up here and hop aboard the boats and get to it.
Day Two- Aboard The Lady J with Captain Dave Jewell and mate Goulart.
CJ Morgante- Day Two Aboard The Lady J, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Don’t forget to watch The New England Revolution match with DC United on Wednesday night. CJ will be on the field.
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Guest Post-unedited from Shawn Cromwell
Fishermen Tattoos- Shawn Cromwell, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
now i am moving to az. where the men are men and the sheep are baaaaaaaaaad !!!! i’ll miss alot of things here.the early morning sunrises as my boat goes across the water on my way out to sea and fish are jumping around me always put a smile on my face, or hearing the lobsters spalashing in the trap just as it comes out of the water, it makes a sort of clicking sound all lobstermen love hearing. alot of the (full time ) guys cry and moan abought prices for this and that (but) day after day they risk their lives to go out and earn a living to bring in a product that most of the people that eat them have no idea just what risks lobstermen go through. i’ve heard people in supermarkets complain abought the cost of lobsters in the winter and think to myself, just yesterday my boat was iced up and almost flipped over when a wave hit me sideways. i could have died for that lobster you’ll butter up in your nice warm home and your complaining ? get real !!! but on those special early
mornings on the way out to sea i love being a lobsterman, their is a freedom and since of pride that i do a job most people just deam abought. something i never thought about is when someone would ask what i do i would say (i am a lobsterman ). and i was proud ! so guy’s i am off to raise bulls in az. for rodeos and to relax and though i wont miss alot of stuff abought lobstering i will miss those special mornings and being able to say (i’m a lobsterman ) shawn cromwell f/v/ pamela & patricia
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Councillor Hardy All Smiles At The Block Party
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The Valerie Ann Pulls Up
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CJ Looks On While The Bait Gets Loaded
Early in the morning and CJ is raring to go.
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CJ Morgante Prepares To Go Lobstering With The Freemantle Doctor
Here’s CJ Morgante, MLS soccer ref preparing to go lobstering for the day with Mike Tupper aboard The Freemantle Doctor. Mike said he did pretty good banding the lobsters and kept up the pace which isn’t always the case with a greenhorn.
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Ernesto!
Lots Of Smiling Faces
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Block Party Divas
The scene at The Franklin.
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Pickles and a GMG Sticker? Somebody is Livin’ Large!
That’s quite a take right there!
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Lobsterman Truck Series- Thomas Balkus
Tom uses a vinyl like tonneau cover for his clean as a whistle F150. I’m not a fan of this type of cover.
They aren’t particularly secure and make loading and unloading the truck a PITA.
If you want a truck cap that fits flush over your bed I’d suggest the Undercover. The Undercover tonneau cover is made of a hard plastic and can lift and lower on hydraulic arms. Here is the Undercover website to see what I mean.
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Lobsterman Truck Series- Thomas Balkus
How cute is this guy?
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Downtown Block Party Morning After- Spotless Downtown
Here’s the scene at 4:50AM 8/17/08, just hours after the first ever Downtown Block Party. Spotless.
Downtown Block Party Morning After- Spotless Downtown, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Check out all the beautiful flowerboxes lining Main Street. Check out the architecture and character.
This is no vanilla Disney version of what a Main street is supposed to look like, this is the real deal.
This is Gloucester! So next time someone rips on it, tell them to get their head out of their ass and head downtown to our fantastic restaurants, browse the art galleries and shops, sip some great coffee at our community coffee shops and then talk. I’m convinced the ones that rip on it don’t even check out all the great stuff and people that make up our incredible Downtown, otherwise they would be singing it’s praises too.
Up With Gloucester!
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Downtown Block Party Morning After- Spotless Downtown
4:52AM 8/17/08 Hours after the Block Party, Spotless.
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Team Can Do
I can’t even express how lucky I feel to have worked with our team on the first ever Downtown Block Party.
Work is a funny word though because not for a second did it feel that way. It was 100% positive energy.
Erika and Dave Hansen, Peter and Vickie Van Ness, Janice, Jackie Hardy, the Council, the performers, the Police, the liquor licensing board, Donna Ardizzoni paying for the banners, Steve Noble and Ringo Tarr for helping with the lights, Cathy Tarr for donating the Downtowngloucester.com domain name, Lee Bolton for providing technical assistance, Ernie Morin with his fantastic slide show.
AMAZING!
You wanna know who else deserves much credit?
The restaurant owners who did everything we asked of them to get the permitting done and make their seating outside cool and funky.
The YMCA Street Team for helping out keep the place clean.
The Folks at seARTS that jumped on board and moved their art exhibits on Center street to coincide with the Block Party. The stores that had cheese and grapes.
The list goes on and on and on, point being that it was all GLOUCESTER PEOPLE pitching in for their own great vibe and giving of and to each other.
It was positive energy put forth from positive people, it was destined to be great from the start.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for everyone that helped out and came down to rediscover how incredible downtown Gloucester with it’s cool coffee shops, incredible restaurants and unique retailers and art scene really is.
I feel like the luckiest guy on earth as I write this.
Erika, Dave, Peter, Vickie, Janice, and Jackie -the team with the positive vision and energy to carry it out, I don’t really know how it became that we all got together for this thing but I would assemble the same team 100 times out of 100 to do it all over again.
Team Can Do, we got ‘er done.
Good Morning Gloucester 