My View of Life on the Dock
The view out our bedroom window at sunrise this morning, before all was overtaken by (more) rain clouds.
BTW, the RTHummingbirds and Orioles are loving the nectar from our crabapple and flowering fruit tree blossoms 🙂
Glouceser Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library 2019 Annual meeting Monday May 20 6-8PM
Prior post Febrary 4, 2019 with some questions
Besides the local new Cape Ann Museum build I’ve mentioned, here is a another recent comparable. Bowdoin’s new Roux Center for the Environment is approximately 30,000 ft’. The planning phase took 9 months. The build out took 14 months and the project cost less than 15 million (seeded with 10 million from the Rouxs). The Sawyer Free project is more than double that cost and the planning phase is many times past.
The community has been consistent about addressing the bathrooms for sometime. In 2014, the “immediate objectives will be working with the library’s board, staff and volunteers to review the library’s collections for relevance; revamping the building’s public and staff spaces; overseeing installation of a modern heating and air conditioning system, and mentoring staff in their professional development…”
Round up of new library building coverage prior to November 2018:
Prior post with 1973 brochure ed. Joe Garland
Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library 2019 Annual meeting Monday May 20 6-8PM
Prior post Febrary 4, 2019 with some questions
Besides the local new Cape Ann Museum build I’ve mentioned, here is a another recent comparable. Bowdoin’s new Roux Center for the Environment is approximately 30,000 ft’. The planning phase took 9 months. The build out took 14 months and the project cost less than 15 million (seeded with 10 million from the Rouxs). The Sawyer Free project is more than double that cost and the planning phase is many times past.
The community has been consistent about addressing the bathrooms for sometime. In 2014, the “immediate objectives will be working with the library’s board, staff and volunteers to review the library’s collections for relevance; revamping the building’s public and staff spaces; overseeing installation of a modern heating and air conditioning system, and mentoring staff in their professional development…”
Round up of new library building coverage prior to November 2018:
Prior post with 1973 brochure ed. Joe Garland
On Saturday May 4th, 2019 we had our first workshop. We’ve been working on putting these together for a while, and we couldn’t be happier with how everything went. Our new showroom has a conference room that provides the perfect classroom space. We have been working on pursuing these educational workshops because we feel that there is a need for this kind of continuing education. We know that this is a skilled trade, one that requires education and training that is hard to find or expensive.
Keep Reading: https://www.grandbanksbp.com/blogs/blog/our-first-workshop
Visiting from North Carolina
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We took another little pitstop on the way home from baseball last night. There are so many amazing nooks and crannies around Cape Ann to enjoy and discover.
This oak is on the south edge of Carlson’s Quarry in the middle of ground zero of last year’s gypsy moth infestation in Rockport. The leaves were ompletely munched, they leafed out again in August.
Today they look very happy. The overwinter gypsy moth egg masses are about one tenth in number or less of last year. And the ones that were still viable look like this photo. 10-15 tiny holes where the new catapillars crawled out instead of 50-200 holes.
So the rain, hard freeze cycle we had this winter was tough on them and the wet spring is supposedly great for the fungus e. maimaiga. That fungus will be active once these caterpillars get to be full sized and it eats them from the inside out releasing spores from the cadaver.
If you see stiff caterpillar cadavers hanging vertical, leave them be. They will release spores and kill more. If you see the caterpillar stiff and hanging send in a photo and you win a GMG bumper sticker. Start looking mid June. I saw some of the little bastards in Lobster Cove, Annisquam yesterday and the fungus has to wait until they are fat and worth eating.
I did not realize Windward Grille in Essex was open for lunch so I was happy to give it a try based on the recommendation of my aunt. I was a little surprised at how busy it was on for a weekday lunchtime (I love that retirement allows us to do this!), but I took it as a good omen.
My Texas burger was the size of a certain large southern state and it was delicious:
GMG Jimmy got a pastrami sandwich and sweet potato fries:
My dessert was a Windward coffee….mmmmm……Another place to add to our lunch options!
Weber firepit 🔥 Weber tiki torches, projecting onto a ten foot screen hanging off the deck. What a way to ring in summer!
Great read- From Sea to Sustainable Sea: Supporting American Wild Seafood event in Minneapolis “combined midwest premiere of the Gloucester fishing documentary “Dead in the Water” by Rockport native David Wittkower sandwiched between a cocktail hour and a seafoot featst featuring Gloucester landed monkfish, redfish, crabs, lobsters andother seafood delights.” See who’s involved with this great road foodiefilm trip, read more here
Spreading Gloucester’s Story: Minnesotans eat up film on fleet, seafood by Sean Horgan, Gloucester Daily Times
4 and 5 Stanwood Point. Great New Construction Townhouses where the Little River meets the Annisquam in Gloucester. The Stanwood Point Development Project is a Gem in the rough. New Construction Townhouses on the water where you can put in docks and moorings for an unbelievable price. Also, VERY LOW CONDO FEES AND NO FLOOD INSURANCE NEEDED.
4 Stanwood Point – Starting at $769,000
5 Stanwood Point, Unit B – $849,900
Come check it out for yourself on Sunday, 5/19 from 1-3PM. You can be living at 5 Stanwood Point, Unit B this summer and be able to enjoy all that Gloucester has to offer.
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On my way home tonight I came across this pretty woman playing in the dirt on the island at Tally’s corner. She asked me to remind everyone that the Generous Gardeners are having a plant sale Saturday morning starting at 9 AM by the tennis courts at the boulevard. ….not to be missed.
Over the past several weeks we have been graced with a bevy of beauties arriving on our shores, some here to stay to nest for the summer, and for some, we are a stopover to their breeding grounds further north, a place to rest and refuel.
Last night a pair of Laughing Gulls was spotted foraging at the shoreline at Good Harbor Beach, earlier in the week a pair of Yellow Legs was at GHB in the early morning, and last week, a flock of Brant Geese, a trio of Black-bellied Plovers, and a Willet were observed. Our gardens, woodlands, meadows, and dunes have come alive with Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Yellow Warblers, Eastern Phoebes, American Robins, Baltimore Orioles, Eastern Towhees, Bobolinks, Carolina Wrens, Brown Thrashers, Eastern Bluebirds, and dozens more species of songbirds.
The striking black-hooded Laughing Gull breeds in Massachusetts, but was nearly extirpated because of the plume and egg hunters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They began to make a comeback, only to be devastated again by larger gulls expanding their southward range. Laughing Gulls are adaptable and today their numbers are increasing.
I’ve seen single Laughing Gulls at Good Harbor, but this is the first pair. Perhaps they are breeding at Salt Island or Thacher Island. Wouldn’t that be wonderful 🙂
Laughing Gull breeding and wintering range
Beautiful few moments when the sun was trying to break through the bank of clouds
Super high tides at Good Harbor Beach this week; notice how close to the dune’s edge is the line of seaweed left by the last tide.
Mama on the nest ❤
Good Morning Gloucester 