It was one month ago the poll took place and most took the under two months option.

🙂

Like I Said-Easy Money On The Over

Mornin’…. Loving the blog as always….

Yesterday as my husband and I sat in the bridge traffic to get back into Gloucester we started talking (again) about the Gloucester bridge traffic game…..

It seems there are three categories: The wait-in-liners, the blockers and the passers. And its fast becoming a sport with the passers and the blockers pulling some pretty intricate maneuvers. Just yesterday we saw three trucks in plow formation blocking the whole road!

I wrote on my Facebook page the other day asking people which team they were and we’ve been having a great conversation. (the gist of which comes down to: If we could all agree to just use both lanes, everyone might be happy.)

I thought of your blog and wondered if you’d ever want to start that conversation. Its getting pretty heated on the road lately and i think maybe some people would do well to hear from the other teams.

Just a thought Have a good one

Erin

If you are a painter looking for studio space for the season, there is space available for rent in the back of Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Rocky Neck for the season (June through September) – a fun and inspiring place to be.  The space is just under 100 sq ft, has a separate entrance, storage shelves for paints and supplies, and a work table.  There is also a table and standup easel available to use.  If interested, please contact EJ at khanstudio@comcast.net

E.J. Lefavour

Now Just last week I was telling you that the number one thing I would tell anyone that they had to do on a 70 degree plus day in G Town was to go for a sail on the Lannon, and lo and behold BAM!  A groupon for half off.  These don’t last long and usually they shut it down half way through the day because they only release so many to groupon.  Don’t be a dope, get yours for 45% off now!

The Fine Print

• Expires Oct 8, 2012
• Limit 4 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Not valid until 5/12/12. Reservation required; 24hr cancellation notice required. Reservations are held until 10 minutes before scheduled sail time. Subject to weather. Not valid for Feature Trips.
• See the rules that apply to all deals.

Here was what I wrote on April 22,2012-

The Schooner Thomas E Lannon Hauled Out At Rose’s 4:45 AM 4/19/12

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Joey C

It’s almost that time of year when all the really cool stuff around happens.  At the Top of my list for anyone coming into town on a nice day is a sail aboard the Thomas E Lannon.  Bottom line if a tourist had one thing to do and only one thing I’d tell them on a nice day to take a cruise aboard what I consider to be the most beautiful ship in the harbor.

Not only is the ship beautiful, but you also get to experience the warm genuine hospitality of some of the finest representatives our city has to offer The Ellis family. Captain Tom, his wife and sons are just the nicest most sincere, fun loving people you’d ever want to meet.

There is hospitality that is, you know, kinda forced, which in my book is fine because in the absence of the warm fuzzy true genuine friendliness I’ll take a forced friendliness over bad or rude service any day.  But from the minute you enter the booking office and you meet Kay you realize there is nothing phony about the Schooner Lannon’s operation.  They just happen to be really good at what they do, they love it and they provide a great experience genuinely and naturally- the best of all worlds!

This is not to say there aren’t a bunch of other very cool things to do around town like whale watches, deep sea fishing, Visiting The cape Ann Museum or The Heritage Center, coffee at one of our great coffee shops, breakfast at our many awesome breakfast joints, ect, ect.  I’m just saying, you give me a sunny 70 degree day and I have folks in from out of town, A guaranteed great time is to be had aboard The Thomas E Lannon.

click the first pic for the slide show-

 

Here are the boys and girls from Michele Shaw’s Elite Dance Centre in Gloucester. They Danced on Saturday April 21st on stage at DownTown Disney.

SERIOUSLY?????????

 

ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!

The Old State House in Boston. This building housed the Colonial government from 1713 – 1776 and the State government from then until 1798. The lion on the left and the unicorn on the right are symbols of the British Monarchy. The originals were destroyed upon the reading of the Declaration of Independence from this balcony on July 18, 1776  They were replaced by replicas in 1882. The building now houses the State St. Orange and Blue Line MBTA station and a museum.

To the people who are writing and asking me to make exceptions for deadline I set for the community listings:

I am very sorry.  These two weeks are the last two weeks of 2012 that I can completely enjoy my family before work goes to a seven day a week schedule through the end of the year.

I am sorry that you may not have seen the announcements that I posted and reposted every day this week in anticipation of this last vacation of the year.

I’ll recopy the announcement that ran every day this past week again in case you missed it over the course of the past 7 days-

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If you have an announcement for the Community Stuff section it needs to be submitted before the 30th.

Please do not send in anything after the 29th of April.

The blog will still be updated every hour on the hour from 6am to 8pm.  I’ve been working hard to pre-schedule two week’s worth of content during my scheduled times and you’ll be in very capable hands with the rest of the GMG crew who I know will step up and keep the quality at the high standards that you’ve come to expect from us.

Thank you, the boss.

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I would appreciate if you could cut me some slack for these next two weeks and not write in and ask me to make an exception because it pains me to not be able to help you but this is a commitment I’m making to my family.

 

I’ve worked tirelessly to make sure that I have pre-scheduled two weeks worth of quality Gloucester content for you while I’ll be away and the rest of the GMG contributors I’m sure would be happy to help you.

If you receive an email in response with a link to this post please pardon the brevity of my reply.  I simply won’t have time to give meaningful and heartfelt apologies to each and every person who may have missed the pre-announcements about the deadline.

Thanks again for your understanding- Joey

Councillor Steve LeBlanc,Jr. will hold a Ward 3 meeting for Ward 3 residents on Tuesday May 1,2012  at 6:00pm in the 3rd floor conference room at City Hall to discuss issues of concern to Ward 3 residents  including a possible sale of public property at Cunningham Rd./Marsh St. and matters relating to water main construction . All residents of Ward 3 are invited to attend.

Adventure

When we are children, we dream of adventure,

like climbing Mount Everest or sailing alone

around the globe or living in the wilderness,

foraging and hunting for our very survival,

or, perhaps, someday learning to fly.

 

Often, along the way, our dreams are modified;

In my case, Mt. Everest became the High Peaks

of New York, the oceans of the world were

reduced to the Finger Lakes and living off the land

turned into an irregularly kept vegetable garden.

And I have never learned to fly.

 

But here’s what I have done: survived seven

years in the sterile suburbs of New York City amid

endless shopping centers and the numbing drudgery

of a long daily commute, but then picked up

my family and moved 250 miles away to a small

town where we started over from scratch;

 

where we raised our children, built a life,

and did everything from keeping chickens and

goats to serving in the state capitol to

meeting our grandchildren and loosing

some loved ones, and then, like a broken field runner,

changing directions and heading east to Gloucester.

 

Gloucester, where I awake to such scenes, scents and

sounds and I feel as though I am in a painting

by Van Gogh when his eyes and mind were

seared by the light at Arles; where the people who were

born here are still thankful for this place and

where each day is an adventure that beats my early dreams.

 

Marty Luster

If you have an announcement for the Community Stuff section it needs to be submitted before the 30th.

Please do not send in anything after the 29th of April.

The blog will still be updated every hour on the hour from 6am to 8pm.  I’ve been working hard to pre-schedule two week’s worth of content during my scheduled times and you’ll be in very capable hands with the rest of the GMG crew who I know will step up and keep the quality at the high standards that you’ve come to expect from us.

Thank you, the boss.