My View of Life on the Dock
We decided to stop at the Topside for dinner recently. I sort of felt like having “bar food” and Jim wanted a proper dinner. Topside Grill on Rogers Street is a good choice in these circumstances. We ate indoors, downstairs where tables are sufficiently separated to maintain social distancing. It’s a cozy, friendly atmosphere and I enjoyed a cheeseburger while Jim had cod. His grilled vegetables looked wonderful! Thanks, Topside. See you again soon.
There were a couple of intrepid surfers in the water near the Shore Road in Magnolia making the best of some wave action on an otherwise dreary afternoon. While I chatted with a new Magnolia resident (welcome!), they happily rode the waves.
I know it’s August but I know how you like to be one step ahead of everyone.
photo credit @ JasonRomano
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This was back in 2011 when these Bhuddist monks would come to Gloucester to buy 500 lobsters and release them back to the ocean symbolic for good karma.
This is the post from 2011:
To make clear the following is only satire and I’ll take responsibility for people not from Gloucester or the the waterfront misunderstanding.
I was wrong to assume that because I predominantly write our hyperlocal blog for our Cape Ann residents that people would understand how preposterous the notion that you could have time to move all the lobster gear even if they knew where the lobsters were released and to set it and for those lobsters which were probably miles away from that location would ever get caught.
What I am happy for is that the releasing of the lobster story which would have been a simple story largely forgotten by now has gotten huge legs and all the positives of Buddhism are highlighted. For that I am grateful.
Receiving the coordinates of where the lobsters were released by Buddhist monks, the boys went out yesterday and hauled the lobster traps they set all over that ocean bottom and caught exactly 534 lobsters, the precise number the monks released.
Grey skies, great surf and a happy rainy day on Long Beach. The umbrella choreography put a smile on everyone’s face today.
Well I did change last week’s routine into Gershwin’s Greatest Hits. What can I say, we like to sing and move to great music.
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The flowers on Stacy Boulevard are stunning.
More walks and views from the house over the last couple of weeks.
Annette Dion Serenading Passersby In The Rain
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It is not often that I have the opportunity to stroll through a brand new (relatively speaking) cemetery but Dolliver Memorial Cemetery on Lincoln Street off 133 offered us that chance recently. It hadn’t even been established as of the Essex Society of Genealogists’ Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County, Massachusetts published in 1991. In that publication, it is called the Lincoln Street Cemetery and states that these 8 acres was purchased by the city in 1979 and would begin selling lots no more lots were available at Beechbrook. Signage on the property indicates the cemetery was established in 1996……a mere infant in cemetery terms.
It’s a lovely setting surrounded by trees and well maintained by the DPW. The lots appear to be lined up in nice neat parallel lines, making it a groundskeeper’s dream I imagine. Perhaps the most notable thing to my eye were the modern and innovative memorials: ship engraving, ski memories and even the Star Trek Enterprise. these brought a smile and I can imagine that’s what the families intended. Well done. It’s a lovely cemetery worth the stroll.
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