My View of Life on the Dock
Our office is located in a very beautiful, calming and refreshing area, surrounded by lighthouses but our favorite is the Annisquam Harbor Light. Lighthouses help to guide in ships to safety…we too can be a lighthouse and guide those around us to safety by being kind and lending a sympathetic ear.
Together we can all create healing white light..become a lighthouse.
“Blockage is disease/Flow is health”
Red, White and Blue Pancake Breakfast
In just two weeks the Red, White and Blue Pancake Breakfast will be here. This will be the 29th annual Breakfast and traditional start of the Fourth of July holiday. Save the date for Saturday, June 30, rain or shine, 7:30am-11am at Tuck’s Point. The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club needs volunteers to host this event. We have many returning workers, most notably Sen. Bruce Tarr and Rep. Brad Hill who return every year to flip pancakes. We welcome all volunteers, new faces and regulars. Please email RSVP@manchesteressexrotary.org to help us plan. Students in need of community service hours are welcome.
Look for Rotarians selling tickets in front of the Post Office and Crosby’s Saturday mornings, 9am-noon, June 16 and 23, or stop in at the Parks & Rec Department or Nor’East Frameworks. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 the day of the event…
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And it’s much more than just a “cafe” most would say.
I just came across yet another amazing spot to recently open in our awesome city. This is DRIFT CAFE on Main St.! This Thursday night, which is tonight, is INDUSTRY NIGHT, so stop on by! (Ask a restaurant friend if you have no clue)
The interior design is equal to the great staff and amazing drinks! (and food:)
Behold…
Awesomeness.
Live music every week, all kinds!
Fixture this.
Whiskey for days! Plus all ya favs n brews!
Keeping the hint of nautical.
All while classy yet approachable.
Details folks (hooks and sockets)…
It’s all about the details. USB chargers anyone??
This bar! You HAVE to see and feel this!!
And proper CAFFEINE HOT ALL DAY!
Tea for 20!
Fixins for the bean heads.
Oh, these are delivered and baked fresh on location..every morning! (food menu avail)
Yup
Hot out da oven
3 Main St. Gloucester… 978-559-7974
Stop by and meet Rick or any of the other staff for Good times! Find them at Facebook.com/DriftGloucester
https://www.facebook.com/driftgloucester/
http://www.capeannharbortours.com/lighthouse.html
Cape Ann farmers market at Stage Fort Park
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
On Wednesday it was such a nice afternoon decided to take a walk to Maritime Gloucester’s wharf.
—DON’T MISS THIS FUN EVENT— It should be a sell-out so sign on-board early. Ticket price is tax deductible and will benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.
FOR TICKETS and info: Visit the Museum’s secure website:
https://www.essexshipbuilding.org/museum-store/6th-annual-schooner-challenge
or call: (978) 768-7541 or email: chris@essexshipbuilding.org Tickets are $50.
Gnashville’s own Tim Gartland. Harp master and songster with a killer band including Tom West, Pete Henderson, Benny Benson and me. don’t miss it!
Dave
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
Since two Stanford graduate students (product design) invented the fastest growing e-cigarette JUUL, I was surprised to read that there was a ban already in place in San Francisco.
Here’s a link to the article: “San Francisco Voters Uphold Ban on Flavored Vaping Products: The measure is considered the strictest in the nation. Voters backed it despite an expensive advertising campaign…”
1623 Studio Cape Ann TV taped (on their jazzy new equipment) visiting scholar, Ruth Potee, MD, at O’Maley discussing vaping and marijuana and impacts on the adolescent brain. Fortnite is another hot topic.
A friend in New York just emailed me this link: 10 Best Fried Clams in New England, courtesy Yankee Magazine’s New England Today. A couple of local Cape Ann favorites made the list. The comment board is climbing fast. I have friends that swear by the Cupboard in Stage Fort Park and various restaurants in Gloucester, Rockport and Essex. Did yours make the 2018 list?
“ I LOVE MY DADDY”
Saturday at 10 AM – 6 PM
June 9, 2018
7 Seas Whale Watch
63 Rogers Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Public
(Tickets to our fundraiser are purchased on-site from a Sea Shepherd coordinator, we’ll be located at the 7 Seas pier where you board the Privateer IV. You can use cash or credit card. If you take part in the beach clean-up with us that morning, you can save $5 off your whale watch ticket ($35 instead of $40) or donate that to SSCS as well.)
In what is hopefully a new yearly event for us, we’ll be heading to one of our great historic New England towns (Gloucester) for a World Oceans Day fundraising event. Working with a couple local groups and organizations, we’ll begin our day spending a couple of hours helping clean up the beach. After a short break to clean up, eat or (for some) take your Dramamine, we’ll head out on what has always been a great day of whale watching with 7 Sea Whale Watch.
Please keep an eye out here on our event for additional details of our beach clean-up on Saturday morning. We’ll meet at the 7 Seas pier (right near where we will board the Privateer IV for our whale watch later) and head out from there. If you have gloves, buckets or bags please bring them… but we will have some on site if needed as well.
#SeaShepherd #worldoceansday #ocean #conservation #cleanocean #oceanplastic #pollution #whalewatch
A few surfers at sunrise this morning riding the waves at Good Harbor.
Join us on Sunday, June 10th at Stage Fort Park, Gloucester for the
Inaugural Lyon-Waugh Bluefin Blowout Family Fun 5K, benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association!
Join us as we run, walk, and stroll from Stage Fort Park to Hammond Castle and back to Stage Fort Park for a 5K loop. Enjoy the beautiful Cape Ann waterfront and fresh ocean air while raising money for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Registration Fees:
Adults – $30 ($40 day of race, cash or credit only!)
Kids- $10 ($15 day of race, cash or credit only!)
*Please fill out one registration for each participant
-SCHEDULE-
6:30am- Volunteers Check-In
7:00am – Registration & Participant Check-In
8:00am – Race Start
-THE AFTER PARTY-
Meet us after the race at Cape Ann’s Marina Resort’s Riverview Bar & Sunset Deck for the after-party featuring cocktails from our sponsors!
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH 9:00 am- Noon.
243 Essex Street, Beverly
nschrafft@harborlight.net with questions
It isn’t too late to sign up to sell….or certainly to decide to stop by and shop, enjoy live music, participate in family yoga, or browse the bake sale! $20 fee to set up an area to sell…otherwise, just come and have fun while shopping!
This year marks the 39th annual Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival.
Saturday is races only while Sunday is races and cultural activities
75 boats participated last year!
Free admission to races and cultural activities.
CHECK OUT FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE
As always, for a comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
I went down to Good Harbor Beach and found many things that made me smile: nesting plovers, protective killdeer parents chasing off crows from the chicks, people relaxing, lazy waves. Here are some of the other things down there that made me smile. I hope the same for you. It was a glorious day.
IMAGE ~ JUNE 6, 2018 ~ 11PIRATES
You don’t need to travel to Boston to hear great jazz. Enjoy dinner at Feather & Wedge this Thursday with live music from the Scollins-Warsi duo. Both accomplished graduates of Berklee College of Music, with Kevin Scollins on guitar and Sahil Warsi on double bass, their impressive repertoire spans jazz standards, R&B, blues and more. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear one of Boston’s most notable jazz duos.
Thursday, June 7
7 – 9 PM
Reservations suggested. 978-999-5917
(Also playing on Sunday, June 10, Jazz Brunch 10:30 – 2:30 PM}
Feather & Wedge Restaurant & Bar |5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966
Join us for our first outdoor market of the season Thursday June 7 at beautiful Stage Fort Park!
3:00-6:30
**Free parking during the market**
Same time, same place, old favorites, and new additions!
Come catch up with your market friends, visit your favorite vendors, and check out the new farmers, bakers, and artists joining us this season!
**This market accepts SNAP EBT, HIP, Senior Farmers Market Coupons, and WIC!**
Want to know what we’ll have at the market? Check out our weekly update!
If you listened to the podcast you heard about my frustration with the way socks are sold and marketed.
Listen here-
Business Idea- Sock Sizes For The In Between Guy (Shoe Size 11-13) Drives me nuts.
Shoe Size 6 – 12½
Sock Size 10-13
Shoe size 12 – 16
Sock Size 13 – 15
As you can see from the chart above, shoe sizes 6-12.5 get one size sock and shoe size 12-16 get a different size sock. So if you wear anywhere from an 11 to a 13 you’re really in no-man’s land. Order the smaller size and your foot is squished into a sock that’s comfortable for a size 9 or so. Order the larger sock meant for shoe size 12-16 and they’re falling down and too loose because they’re designed to fit up to a 16 shoe size.
It’s very frustrating. On top of that options are further limited for non-cotton socks. Cotton is the absolute worst material to use for socks as it doesn’t wick away any moisture and has zero antimicrobial properties.
After about an hour of research on Amazon I found the perfect non-cotton summer socks for us sock size ‘tweeners.
I ordered them and they were delivered within two days with Amazon Prime. Size- perfectly comfortable for my size 12 feet. Wore them the next day under my work boots and they held up perfectly, no sagging. I ordered another four pack right when I got home. It’s rare when you find something that works just perfectly for me but when I do I like to lock it down. Much like the best knife values in the world, the Victorinox which I replaced our Henkles steak knives with because they are so far superior. When something works perfectly and is a great value you just can’t believe how much better they make your life and you load the boat.
Here’s a link to purchase and read reviews-
Good Morning Gloucester 