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Hi Marty.

Here are 4 of my photos I had in an album in my Facebook.

I lost my husband Frank in 2006 to Prostate Cancer. He and I used to drive up to Gloucester often from 1983 onward, and eventually bought a condo at Mast Hill.  Enticed by the warm climate and a business venture in Texas, we ended up selling it, as he wanted to help set up a business for some Indian business acquaintances.

I’ve visited Gloucester about 3-4 times since losing him. It is hard to accept and so I use these pictures occasionally to feel I haven’t lost everything.  They obviously are not capturing the beauty your pictures have, but here they are.

I’ve received nightly Good Morning Gloucester for about 3 years I think.  It makes me feel at home.  I was just there at end of April and stayed a couple days at Long Beach but the photos were overly cloudy and only important and nice to me.  I was used to misty foggy morning walks on the beaches, and so will keep those for myself. My son used to come visit us and he loves the area too and I always liked this that my husband took of us peering into the crevices at the sea creatures.

Thank you.

Best of luck and I will continue to enjoy your pictures on GMG.

Best regards,
Carol Londres

Click on image for slide show.

That Vermin Supreme hails from Rockport, MA?  It never ceases to amaze me the interesting people Cape Ann has spawned.

Vermin Love Supreme is an American performance artist, anarchist and activist who is known for his being a satirical candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. Supreme is known for wearing a boot as a hat and carrying a large toothbrush.  He claims that if elected President of the United States, he will pass a law requiring people to brush their teeth. He also campaigned in 2012 on a platform of zombie apocalypse awareness and time travel research, and he promises a pony for every American.  The latter is great as it will dramatically reduce our dependence on foreign oil, fossil fuel emissions, climate change, highway fatalities, and increase organic food production with all that free manure for fertilizer; plus ponies are so cute.   Supreme claims to mock the political system.   In 2011, he participated in the ongoing Occupy Boston protests.

Vermin Supreme is currently campaigning in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The following are some of the milestones in this campaign:

• October 29, 2011: He qualified to be listed on the 2012 Democratic Party primary ballot in New Hampshire.

• October 29, 2011: He participated in a satirical debate against a representative of the campaign of deceased British occultist Aleister Crowley.

• December 19, 2011: He participated in the Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum and “glitterbombed” fellow candidate Randall Terry, claiming that Jesus told him to turn Terry gay.

• January 12, 2012: In the 2012 Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, Supreme received 833 votes (Barack Obama won the primary with 49,080 votes).

E.J. Lefavour

There are lots more pictures from the Art Haven buoy auction coming soon, but this is definitely one of the best: Iona didn’t know her chair was going to be in the art show and when Aja showed it to her she got this grin on her face and said, “It’s my first art show!!” Can’t beat seeing a proud kid standing next to their artwork…

I just can’t resist these high contrast, high structure cloud shots.

 

The black-and-white Common Goldeneye is one of the last ducks to migrate south in fall and it often will winter as far north as open water permits.

The eyes of a Common Goldeneye are gray-brown at hatching. They turn purple-blue, then blue, then green-blue as they age. By five months of age they have become clear pale green-yellow. The eyes will be bright yellow in adult males and pale yellow to white in females.

These Common Golden Eyes are hanging out with a couple of red breasted mergansers.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_goldeneye/lifehistory/ac

E.J. Lefavour

Joey,

Good afternoon pal—I wanted to see if you could help me post something to help my friend Matt Light out with his charity.  Matt currently plays for the New England Patriots and has a unique raffle for Super Bowl tickets and they are $2.00 each—(less with more quantity buy) and all is done on line.  The proceeds go to his charity—“the Light Foundation”.  I have helped Matt with his cause over the past two years and he is a very genuine person.  Can you please post this link and info to your tremendous site and hopefully one of our locals will win and go to the big game?

I am connecting with you because our favorite left tackle, NE Patriot Matt Light, has asked me to reach out on his behalf to see if you might be able to help promote his SuperBowl raffle.  The details are here, but in essence, the winner gets two tickets to the game, a hotel room from Friday to Monday, a signed Brady jersey, a game ball signed by the starting O-line (all of which Matt will hand-deliver post SuperBowl,) and $2000 in travel dollars for a flight/transportation:
http://www.celebritiesforcharity.org/raffle/matt-lights-big-game-in-indy-raffle/
Please let me know your thoughts on this and thanks in advance for your help.

Best,

Jamie

Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library Program: The Importance of Buying Food Locally

Hello Joey. I just wanted to remind you about the Garden to Table food fair going on in Manchester-by-the-Sea at the community center this coming Saturday from 10am to 1pm. We would love it if you could come by. We are having a panel and discussion, as well as lots of vendors from various local food sources. Hope to see you there!

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Just in time for Valentines, John Wonson of Blue Gate Gardens will host a flower arranging class at the Rockport Senior Center on February 8 at 1PM. The cost is just $5.00 and you will take home a flower arrangement to enjoy. Reservations required 978-546-2573

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St. Ann School of Cape Ann Open Houses

St. Ann School of Cape Ann (PK-8) invites families who are interested in Catholic education to visit an open house during Catholic Schools Week. A general open house will be held on Sunday, January 29 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. An open house for our preschool and kindergarten programs will be held on Wednesday, February 1 from 9:00 to 11:00 am.  Please see the attached flyer for more information about our preschool and kindergarten programs.

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Shep Abbott will read chapters from "Dogboy"  his novel-in-progress at the Writers Center on Wednesday, March 8th. at 7:30PM.

Joey, I also count on oil lamps and candles during blackouts and sometimes  just for the ambiance. I would like to caution folks to be aware of the oil that they use. This is a sample of a safer oil in regards to fires

So the task seemed easy enough to me.

Send my buddy Ed down to What’s Cooking to partake in the free soup and $2 sliders opening day specials for lunch.

While there this morning to get the skinny before anyone else and bring you guys the video owner Brian rambled off a whole litany of soups and chilis packed with meat.

After inhaling a couple of sliders apiece and getting to the soup portion of our lunch I start to eat the soup and lo and behold Ed goes and gets us some vegan soup.

Now for many of you, vegetarian soup may cut it.  But for working men the unwritten rule is that you obviously go for the chicken or beef or chili soup.  What working man in this day and age opts for the vegan soup?

Fail.

This is not an indictment on the quality food at What’s Cooking mind you, the sliders were fantastic.

You Have Beef Chili and Chicken Veggie w/Rice and You Go Vegan On Me?  Really Ed???

What kind of cruel devious diabolical man are you anyway?

found on facebook; “What’s Your Blues Name?”

From: “Sleepy Lemon Brown”

Look for me at the Rhumbline soon.

What’s your Blues Name?