Friends and family,

My brother Rick has passed away. I am trying hard to hold it together. Sorry I can’t call/talk right now. Please share the word and monitor www.richardkaloustmemorial.com for updates. Please send around because I do not have everyone’s email address.

After a lifetime of collecting, studying, admiring and climbing on rocks, I have made an exciting petrologic discovery that answers that nagging, ages old question, especially in New England: “Why do rocks seem to multiply and grow?”  I have discovered that rocks, like turtles, hatch from shells.  In the photos here you can see some of them in the process of emerging from their shells.  Also, rocks grow, and like snakes they shed their skin as they grow.  You can also see some of the more mature rocks here shedding their skin.

Rocks mate in the spring and the young hatch in the winter when the cold speeds up their metabolism, after varying lengths of gestation periods depending upon the type of rock (whether igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic), ranging from 10 to 100 years.  That is why we have more rocks in New England than Florida, for example, where it is warmer year round.  Of course there are rocks everywhere because we had an ice age about 20,000 years ago, which resulted in an explosive birth rate of rock populations around the globe.  Since that time however, the warmer climates have lost and not been able to replace their rock populations, which are now mostly sand, while we in the Northeast always have plenty of fresh new rocks to move around, and build stonewalls, foundations and gardens with.  Cape Ann seems to have the ideal climate for rock propegation and growth.

E.J. Lefavour

Formidable

All Profits to Cancer Research. Get a team together, have a ton of fun and do some good. Wins all the way around.

I will be sponsoring a team from GMG. Any other restaurant or business who sponsors a team you can bet I will see to it that your business gets way more publicity than that $100 sponsorship fee will cost from the crazy amount of coverage I’ll be giving this awesome event!

Like this- Jeremy Goldberg from Cape Ann Brewing already donated a keg to the beer tent for the participants! Boom! Jeremy Goldberg and Cape Ann Brewing is getting a mention in every press release leading up to the event. How bout that?
So Crossfit Cape Ann how bout you guys? You gonna get a team together? All you yogi and holistic joints that want some play here on GMG, you want to get your name out there to the 25-35,000 people a day we reach? Here’s your chance.

Think about it this way, 5 team members each kick in $20 each, each get killer TShirts and open bar throughout the tourney in the players area -no brainer baby! I’d get a team together just for the open bar FFS!

You don’t need to be sponsored by a business you can get a team together yourself. Funny team names are encouraged!

So get in on the fun, drum up some awareness for your organization and help with the fight against the suck that is cancer.

At this fantastic beach club here in Playa del Carmen the “Hombres” room has a good old fashioned trough just like they used to have at Topsfield Fair and Fenway.

What a brilliant use of space.

Never a line to unload the many cervecas you’ve consumed because even though the bathroom isn’t all that big the use of space when you don’t have to have a bunch of individual stalls allows like 6 dudes to pee in the same space that you’d only be able to get three stalls.

Brilliant.

In bedroom communities around America people experience lawn envy, and are always trying to make their lawns look as nice or better than the Jones’.  Not so on Cape Ann.  Here I think people are more inclined to experience rock envy, and how much more effectively the Jones’ have beautified their property with the rocks they had available to them.  I think that Annisquam has been blessed with some of the largest, most beautiful and abundant rocks I have seen on Cape Ann, and is therefore probably the target of much rock envy.

E.J. Lefavour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEklMK9HSI&feature=player_embedded

Black Earth Hauler picks up compostable waste in Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Ipswich, Manchester, Beverly, Salem, Hamilton, and Wenham and brings it to a farm in Hamilton where it is turned into rich, black compost. Food and other organic material naturally break down and decompose to form this nutrient rich substance essential to plant growth and soil health. Participating in food waste pick-up diverts organic waste from landfills and incinerators and returns it to the soil.

Would you like to have your food waste composted and returned to the soil?
Sign up for Curbside Compost.

Feel guilty tossing that banana peel into the trash or down the disposal? Don’t have enough space or time to have your own compost pile?

Black Earth offers two Curbside Compost pick-up services to residents of Cape Ann.
1) Weekly pick-up of your food waste in a five gallon bucket for $4 a week. We have buckets available with a carbon filter.
2) Yard and food waste picked up every two weeks in a tote for $8.

Sign on for a year of service for $200 and recieve a half yard of compost delivered to your house.

Recycling your organic waste is easy to implement because they accept all compostable material including meat, dairy, and paper.

In addition to picking up food waste, Black Earth Haulders also sells and delivers compost to your home.  They also do commercial pick up.  Visit their website at http://www.blackearthhauler.com/index.php for more info, or contact Conor Miller, (c) 262-227-1067
conor@blackearthhauler.com

or Justin Sandler, Sales Manager
justin@blackearthhauler.com
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