My View of Life on the Dock
Hi All:
Clean Gloucester and The One Hour at a Time Gang has their schedule for Saturday, May 16, 2015. I will be at a wedding in Charleston, S.C.
When: Saturday, May 16, 2015
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: We can all meet at Doyon’s parking lot
Thanks all
Donna
Ps will miss seeing all your smiling faces
Manny is the man! One of my favorite series on GMG lately has been his “Happy On Main Street” Series.
Hope you have a great day Manny!
I don’t know about all of you, but I have found…this year more than ever…that our “down time” is fairly nonexistent. We leave home at 7:15 to get to work/school and most days the boys and I aren’t home until 5:00. Hockey was 5 days a week from October to almost April and now there’s baseball, t-ball, and some flag football. Throw in some meetings, appointments, errands, etc. and we are out straight. When we get home it is a somewhat mad rush to tackle dinner, showers, guitar practice, and packing the necessities for the next day (I am thankful every day that they don’t have “real” homework yet). If there was a moment to spare the boys’ “go to” for most of the winter had been to grab their iPads or some zombie time in front of the TV. I’d be lying if I said that I minded. Facts are that I needed time to get things done and they’re incredibly active all week long…so I did’t fret when they stole those moments of screen time at all! As the weather got nicer, however, I started to cringe a bit when they would hunker down, iPads in hand, to zone out.
So….I couldn’t have been happier to come home from a run the other night and see them playing an ever so simple, and full of giggles, game of hopscotch with the neighbors. I sat on the curb to watch…and once I overcame my embarrassment that they had somehow made it to “almost 6” and “almost 8” years-old without ever having played before….I took a few minutes to appreciate the moment.
Warmer weather has brought more hopscotch, bike riding, and some serious games of catch!
Female Mallard Duck
From the Mass Audubon website:
Giving food to ducks and geese (waterfowl) can create many problems for birds and the environment, and both Mass Audubon and the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MDFW) discourage it. The notion that waterfowl cannot survive without human intervention is false. Ducks and geese have survived for thousands of years without handouts and will continue to do so if left alone.
In 1973, H.W. Heusmann, a waterfowl biologist with the MDFW, conducted a study at six parks in Massachusetts between mid-August and mid-September. The data gathered during the 28-day period showed that 38,500 people fed 7,800 pounds of food to ducks, which roughly translates to 6,550 loaves of bread. Besides bread, the birds consumed crackers, donuts, pastry, popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, cookies, cereal, peanuts, and lettuce—a diet most people wouldn’t allow their children or pets to eat on a daily basis!
Ducks and geese are well suited to survive New England winters. Their feathers provide air pockets that stabilize body temperature and control heat loss. When birds fluff their feathers, they are merely increasing the air space and insulation. Waterfowl sitting with puffed feathers on a frozen pond are perfectly fine and do not need our help.
All birds are protected by federal laws under the “Migratory Bird Act of 1918,” as well as by Massachusetts state laws. Learn more about birds and the law.
For more information on Motif No.1 Day and the Red Shed Film Festival see Sarah Kelly’s post from earlier today: Motif NO.1 Day is Gonna Be Amazing
Films are listed in the order of showtimes:
Calling All Chefs, Nubar Alexanian, Walker Creek Media
Vincent in the Present, Henry Ferrini
A Flight of Monarchs, Kim Smith
Hugh Verrier: Portrait of an Artist, Ben Gadberry
Toby MacNutt: Body of Work, Ashley DeLucco & Elizabeth Rossano, Vermont Community Access Media
Candles in Paradise, Rob Azevedo
That Asian, Akiyo Nishiyima
Stillwater, Jon Halverson
Whiskey Boys, Justin Plasse, Sensorium Pictures
Monsura is Waiting, Kevin Newbury & Matthew Principe, Principe Dynamics
Here And Now, Julian Higgins, Innerlight Films and Cinelicious
The Waiting Room, Jaret Sears
Sailing & Art, Christine Schmitthenner
Greenheads, Gordon Baird
Bless It, Michael Kelly, Trust The Vibe
The Granite Stoke, Ryan Scura & Dylan Ladds
Life by Lobster, Iain McCray Martin
This Perfect Place, Paul Van Ness and Kristina Lindborg
The Red Shed Film Festival is part of the Motif No. 1 Day Rockport Arts Festival. Screenings will be held at the Peggy Brenner Room, Rockport Public Library, at 17 School Street.
Five days away from the best M1D in 65 years (really). Film, Dance, Poetry, Music, Art, activities for kids and tons of community events are planned.
FILM: (look for GMG goddess Kim Smith’s clip!) The Red Shed Film Fest at the Rockport Public Library
DANCE: The T-Wharf tent featuring the Rockport Dance Academy and Fight or Flight Aerial Theatre.
MUSIC: The Dock Square tent features the Mari Martin Band, Pesky J. Nixon and Glass Onion. The Shalin Liu features a FREE community concert and an Instrument Petting Zoo.
WORDS: The School Street Tent: Magnetic Poetry Slam, Words Interactive, Words Before Dinner: the Poetry of Cape Ann.
ART: motif 2015 is a show featuring fresh, new work curated by Bob & Jill Armstrong of Iartcolony Gallery in Rockport. Artists from Cape Ann, Boston and beyond have re-imagined the Motif in everything from sculpture to paintings to video installations. A gallery walk will also be part of the festival.
COMMUNITY: Rockport Elementary School 3rd Grade Art Show, the M1D 5k & Fun Run to benefit Rockport Public Schools, Thacher Island Committee, Sandy Bay Yacht Club, Rockport Cub Scouts, Millbrook Meadow Committee, Addison Gilbert, SISU Fitness and more!
FOOD: Top Dog will have a food booth at the School Street Tent, Blue Lobster Grille and That Nutty Redhead will be set up in Dock Square, the New Year’s Rockport Eve Food Booth will be in Harvey Park.
FAMILY ACTIVITIES: Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest with prizes sponsored by The Ice Cream Store, painting, sketching, a Story Walk and Make-a-Book craft sponsored by the Rockport Public Library and much more!
Print out this handy Schedule of Events and bring it with you to Motif No.1 Day. The CATA trolley Park ‘n’ Ride will be running all day. Follow us on Twitter @rockportfest to stay up on the festival haps (do people still say that?) #M1D #rockportrocks www.rockportartfestivals.com
GHS in strong win over Marblehead 9-2. Good pitching…good hitting.
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If I wasn’t knee deep in running Cape Ann Giclée I would at least make a play for this. How often do we get a chance at having a successful business and 20 grand just handed to us?
The 90 Day Commit to Get Fit Program is helping people break through behavior road blocks by providing nutrition education, fitness experience and stress management. Meet sisters Rorie Philbrook and Carol Dagle – 2 participants who achieved real lasting results! Info session tonight @ 6:30 at MAC
To Learn More about this highly successful program, go to http://ow.ly/MRrGx
The One World Coffeehouse, 59 Main St, Essex, MA (street level entrance of the U. U. Church), is pleased to offer a split bill on Saturday, May 16, 8 PM, with the singing duo Meridian and singer-songwriter Charlee Bianchini.
Each group will play a set, with an intermission in between to sample the delectable sweet, teas, and coffees.
Meridian, known for their intricate harmonies on traditional and contemporary folk music, consists of Gloucester’s Olivia Gale and Colin de la Barre. Meridian photo credit Jason Grow
Charlee Bianchini, has been making her mark as a gifted singer and writer, starting with her local roots, then branching out as she traveled meridian photo credit Jason Growoverseas and back home to her beloved Gloucester.
Both of these talented offerings for the May 16th will give the One World Coffeehouse audience an evening of breathtaking vocals and thought provoking lyrics. Don’t miss this chance to welcome Meridian and Charlee Bianchini to the stage.
Call 978-768-3690 for reservations, door opens at 7:20, $15, payment made at the door. WWW.oneworldcoffeehouse.org for more info.
So the person who couldn’t find Cape Ann Giclee from doing a Google search on a map tells me that I need to redo gmg, and I need to chill out and that I’m a drama king for pleading with people to send their press releases to other contributors while I’m on vacation. Now here’s what I propose she does and what she may or may not understand in the media business.
You know when we get the most subscribers? When I go off on rants. When there’s controversy and when it’s not just pretty pictures. This is not to in any way shape or form discount the pretty pictures and awesome contributions from everyone but I can rattle off a dozen fantastic photographers that have blogs or musicians that have blogs or cooks that post recipes. People love the sum of it all all together. What she should do, just like when she proposed that “we” in quotation marks hold a city wide yard sale and when I told her to organize it, I haven’t heard a peep about it since. And then she writes a lengthy comment criticizing the way I handle things. Here’s my proposal to you- start your own frickin blog. Put in the tens of thousands of hours promoting it to get it to the size of audience it has so that your awesome group of contributors’ work gets recognized and commented on, thereby keeping them motivated, and then, when you get it to that spot you can make it as generic and sterile as you want it, without any “unprofessional” rants or whatever you’d like.
Come on now, get to work. I’ll give you a whole list if links on how to start a blog if you’d like. I suspect you’ll put in about ten posts worth of content together and then, on your best day when you get about 100 hits ask yourself if it’s worth it and I hope you keep going. I hope you keep trying to find interesting content and place your content relentlessly in front of the audience most likely to embrace it and build your subscribers base one subscriber at a time. Every single day. Tweeting, Google +ing, searching for online message boards that might be interested in that content, and putting the links in front the of them, hoping you earn more dedicated readers. Out of 1000 blogs that start my guess is that 5 continue to post weekly after the first year and maybe 2 post daily after the first year and maybe 1 posts 4-8 times a day every day after the first year.
So go ahead. Buckle your chinstrap. Get to work. Start your blog and stick with it through the building year when a big day is 100 views. Stick with it in the second or third your when you might reach 1000 views per day. I wish you nothing but the best of luck.
The “Art, Rock” I left at Corliss landing was found by Nathan and his Daughter.
A note from Nathan;
This couple from Germany are enjoying Gloucester and Cape Ann, they loved the Atlantis on the backshore, where they stayed. They also enjoyed walking the breakwater, and were on their Harbor Walk.
Includes Flowing Hairs in the wind, Two Couples from Rockport, and Blue Hat Carrying a Guitar Case.
Good Morning Gloucester 