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FOB Cindy Rich Is Needles Deep Into Producing My New Sweater!
10/9/13 Update-
Close to the great divide… A few more rows and the body and sleeves will begin to take shape
10/8/13
Lots of stitches on needles now… Adding more every other row to create ‘broad’ shoulders and a ‘manly’ chest!!!
Thanks to Coveted Yarn for sponsoring the yarn! Did you know Coveted Yarn has moved from East Main Street To The lower level of Shaws Plaza on Eastern Ave.
Cindy writes-
On the needles… How does cashmere sound??? Charcoal?
Moving right along… Neckband done… Division for back, front and sleeves…
Moving down over the shoulders… Still unrecognizable as a sweater…
Here’s the original offer which Cindy took me up on-
I’d like a lg mens merino wool sweater in the style above minus the Charlie Brown pattern color heather grey or charcoal. Any knitters up for it? Your picture on the blog and the yarn shop that wants to donate the yarn will get my time posting about the process.
The wind was whipping from the North through the outer harbor Sunday. Our cove was on the leeward side of the wind so it was relatively calm in the cove, but this shot shows how quickly things can change from one extreme to another on the water. The distance from the dock in the foreground to the dock on left of the photo [getting hammered by wind & waves] is about the length of a football field.
The Gloucester School Committee, in conjunction with the West Parish PTO, encourages members of the community to join them for a special meeting on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at the West Parish Auditorium. The meeting will serve two purposes, to be given an update on the progress of the new school building design and to provide an update on the “swing” school space during construction.
In addition, members of the community are also encouraged to attend the annual State of the Schools Presentation on Thursday, December 5th at the Gloucester High School Lecture Hall at 7:00 p.m. Superintendent Safier and members of the administration will conduct this presentation.
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Volunteers dedicate a weekend to building the tree.
Children paint buoys as “ornaments” to decorate the tree. Buoy Painting is December 14 and the Tree Lighting Ceremony is 4:30 – 5:00 on December 14.
When the tree comes down in January, the buoys are saved and auctioned off as a fundraiser for Cape Ann Art Haven on January 24th @ Gloucester Cruiseport.
New! Sunday Brunch at Seaport Grille 11am-2pm Starts Dec 1, 2013
We are pleased to announce we will be serving Sunday Brunch from 11AM-2PM every Sunday
Enjoy a Bloody Mary overlooking Gloucester’s Working Waterfront on our heated and enclose Deck! Serving all your favorites: Eggs Benedict, Omelets, and French Toast!
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Not for nothin but among the many superlatives you can confidently toss around in regard to Gloucester is easily best breakfast joint town. Without question, hands down we have a crazy number of awesome breakfast joints to choose from.
If you’re not killing it with your breakfast game you need not apply to open up shop here because there just so many outstanding options to begin with.
George’s, Willow Rest, Sugar Mag’s, Mamie’s Kitchen , Morning Glory, Two Sisters, Charlie’s Place, ect, ect ect. We are blessed!
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ANTA ‘PAWS’ PHOTO EVENT Bring your dog to see Santa at the Santa ‘Paws’ fundraising event to benefit Cape Ann Animal Aid on Saturday, December 7 from 11am to 2pm at Smith’s Ace Hardware and Lumber in Rockport. For a $10 donation, take home a keepsake photo of your dog(s) with Santa. For more information, visit www.CapeAnnAnimalAid.com or call (978) 283-6055.
Hi Joey, Attached please find information and photos on the result of the Veterans’ Day contest that Orlando & Associates ran. You had been kind enough to run the info on Good Morning Gloucester. We thought you might be interested in spotlighting the two heroes who won the contest, Brendan and Vionette Chipperini. Let me know if you would like any additional information. Happy Thanksgiving! Joe
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Ready For The Post Office- Everything Ordered Through Yesterday Shipped Yesterday- Look For Yours In The Mailbox Soon!
There are a handful left but for those that ordered GMG Stonewashed Caps already, I brought the shipment to the Post Office for shipping yesterday!
If you would like to take advantage of the Black Friday deal today is the last day to get that deal They Will Sell Out and I won’t be reordering them within the next 6 months–
Click to order-
Through Black Friday ONLY if you purchase 5 caps at once you get a 6th cap free and free shipping. If you order 3 caps at once you get a free “This Is Gloucester” DVD included in your order.
If you order 5 or 3 I’ll know to include the extra cap or DVD, you won’t need to check off any special box.
If you purchase 5 caps also select the local pick up option so you won’t be charged for shipping.
Perfect way to get way ahead of your holiday shopping for the Gloucester lovers in your life.
Born in Pennsylvania, Van Dyke was educated at Princeton and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a lecturer at the University of Paris and later returned to Princeton where he taught English Literature for many years. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson who appointed him minister to Luxembourg prior to the First World War. Van Dyke helped to write the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship and was a vocal opponent of American Imperialism foretelling that the country would spend more on war preparation than on education. In addition to dozens of poems, essays and stories he wrote numerous hymn lyrics including the words to Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.
Would you be so kind as to let your followers know about our warehouse sale this Saturday and Sunday at Gloucester Knitting warehouse, 235 East Main St, from 10:00 to 4:00 P.M
Gloucester Knitting produces 100% cotton fisherman knit sweaters from infant sizes to adults, made in the U.S.A. Our web site is gloucesterknitting.net, which displays most of the products
that will be available for sale.
We will also be offering close outs, slight irregulars and samples at considerably reduced prices.
Would greatly appreciate any mention of this sales to your world.
Questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Thank you for your help and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Robert Sullivan
Gloucester Knitting
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This was the 25th anniversary of the Wheeler’s Point Thanksgiving Day Swim. Hosted by Dick and MJ Powers, the swim has grown from an original 4 swimmers to up to 70 swimmers. This year there were 22 hearty souls who braved the cold water, the cold temperature and the blustery winds!
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Just saw that Amazon is offering the Chromecast for $30 for Black Friday Today and giving $6 in Google Play Store Credits making the Chromecast an absolute no brainer steal stocking stuffer- Here’s the Deal At Amazon
For $30 this is something that will have huge impact. I freakin love mine!
My guess is that anyone under the age of 30 either laughs or looks puzzled at why anyone would pay for a Land Line telephone or cable.
Reading the last couple years about online services like Hulu for $8/mo and Netflix for $8/mo there are whole slews of great television programming for tiny fractions of what you pay for traditional Comcast cable.
Yesterday I got the $35 Chromecast which plugs into the HDMI port on the back of your TV. It allows for wifi streaming Television programming from your smartphone or tablet of Netflix or Hulu Plus programming to your TV.
The amount of network and cable shows that are available through these two services are astounding and way more than I’d ever be able to watch.
The one thing that you don’t get is local cable which admittedly is a big deal for a lot of people (not for me though and I suspect not for a lot of younger people who laugh at the idea of being tied to the exorbitant cable tv package plans).
I used The Chromecast with Netflix yesterday. It took me less than two minutes to set up and was set up in three crazy simple steps. I mean so easy my mom could figure it out.
I was always skeptical of these things because the video streams wirelessly from your internet and I figured that the picture would be compromised but the picture was insanely clear. The show I watched was crystal clear. I could pause and resume using my iPad as the remote and watch without commercials. And it remembers where you left off watching a show and you can pick it up watching it on your iPad, smartphone or on your TV.
So if you buy the $35 Chromecast (one time purchase) and sign up for $8/mo Netflix and $8/mo Hulu Plus. You could completely kick your cable bill to the curb. Of course you still need internet service.
As for local cable channels which I recognize is hugely important to some people there are still OTA (over the air) antenna sold that will pick up local channels. I don’t know how effective they are and I’d love to hear from people that have gone this route. These over the air antenna are smaller and sleeker and look like mini sculptures-
Here’s an example of one of these OTA antenna, the Mohu curve–
So if you can pay $35 once for the Chromecast and $16 a month for Netflix and Hulu Plus and $52 for the Mohu Curve which gets you local OTA channels and after that one initial outlay you’re only into it for $16 a month.
To me it’s a no brainer because I get my news on the internet.
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