My View of Life on the Dock
Backyard Growers is excited to join Rose Baker Senior Center for another awesome party! We’ll be there from 10am-12 with a fun seed planting activity; hope to see you there!
Join us on March 24th for our annual FREE SEED SWAP! Stop by our office anytime between 12-3PM to swap seeds, connect with other gardeners, and learn more about indoor seed starting. Want to be trained in our square foot gardening method? Join us beforehand at 10AM. Call 978-281-0480 for more details.
LET’S BOWL!!!!
Date: March 25, 2018
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Cape Ann Lanes (53 Gloucester Ave, Gloucester MA. 01930. Phone 978-283-9753)
This FUNdraiser will support the Riverdale Rockets Softball program & its’ athletes!
Cost is $20 per person for 3 strings & shoes (remember to bring socks)
Prizes will be awarded for TOP SCORING TEAM, HIGHEST SCORE & MOST GUTTER BALLS — Raffles will also be held
Sign-up as an individual or a team (teams consist of 4-6 bowlers)
To sign-up or if you have any questions, please contact Nicole Tucker https://www.facebook.com/events/423371291417245/or email nct1031@gmail.com
The full moon of February is most often called the Snow Moon, but some Native American tribes called it the Hunger Moon or the Storm Moon. After this past week’s nor’easter, I think perhaps Storm Moon is most apt. The full moon actually took place over the cusp of February 28th and March 1st, and just as it occurred in the month of January 2018 when we had two full moons, the end of March will bring a Blue Moon.
Meet the sculpins
The several members of the sculpin and sea raven tribe that are known from the Gulf of Maine are a homogeneous group, characterized by large spiny heads; very wide gill openings; very broad mouths; slender bodies; separate spiny and soft-rayed dorsal fins (united in some rare species); large fanlike pectorals but small caudals; and by ventrals that are reduced to three long rays. All of them, too, have a fashion of spreading the gill covers and of flattening the head when taken in the hand. They likewise produce grunting sounds, and some of them have the power of inflating themselves with air or water when they are molested.
From Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) courtesy of MBL/WHOI
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Artediellus_uncinatus.htm
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Triglops_ommatistius.htm
Wave Photos from Len Burgess
New obsession, the huge waves in Gloucester. It makes you wonder how something so beautiful can also be very destructive. Took some photos on Monday from The Back Shore and Shore Road.
Sunday surf..just a couple.
Friends on Stacy Boulevard
Father and Daughter
“The Gloucester Downtown Association‘s Sidewalk Bazaar Coordinator has moved to Salem; Danielle Capalbo did a great job for us for the Bazaar and our Christmas promotion. I am sure we all wish her well in settling into her new home. The Glouceser Downtown Association (GDA) is now looking for a new Bazaar Coordinator which is a paid contract position. So if you know of anyone who you think might be interested, please have them send a resume to Patty Gates (Premier Imprints) or myself ( The Weathervane) for consideration.”
Thanks,
Joe Ciolino, Director GDA”
We were away for the weekend and missed the entire storm. I was feeling a little out of the loop and have been missing the waterfront so we took a quick drive down to Pigeon Cove Harbor this morning on the way to school/work.
Dreary and drab today….but, always pretty.
I found this program in a downtown Gloucester shop. It states: “We, the members of the Gloucester Service Chest welcome you to our entertainment, an Old Time Minstrel Show, which is given for the benefit of all our own boys in the Armed Forces.” It was held on January 20 1944. I was tickled to see my dad listed (“Patty Ryan” though he was generally known as Paddy) as a performer. My childhood memories of his many performances are full of End Man/ Host duties at variety shows for various charities, so this was perfect.
He must have been only about 16 at this time and it’s gratifying to see that his End Man experiences had a long history. Another cousin, Edna Handran, is listed on the ticket committee so it was a bonus. Some of the other names include Virginia Friend, Priscilla Cahoon, Theresa Sylvester, Buzzy McKinnon, Norman Ball and Lester Bragg. There are others but perhaps some of you recognize these. Presumably the ladies were members of the Junior Women’s Club at the time.
Performances included songs like My Shining Hour, My Heart Tells Me and Pistol Packin’ Mama; and, of course, Yankee Doodle Dandy. You’re humming right now, aren’t you?
Our beautiful Snowy Owl Hedwig survived, and looks none the worse for wear. She spent the afternoon of March 5th resting in a sunny, but wholly unphotogenic location (and extremely windy corridor, too, I might add). Perhaps a New England Nor’easter is nothing to her, when compared to an Arctic tundra storm. She’s clearly a genius 🙂 And has some mighty good survival skills.
Thank you to Betty G. Grizz for sharing her Hedwig sighting this afternoon ❤
Atlantic Road estate, after a relatively mild storm last week.
Sunday afternoon, after March Nor’easter Riley.
Dave writes, “Saw this Dovekie at low tide Saturday. The gulls were picking it up and dropping it to the side. I chased them away – temporarily and shooed it back into the water.”
Dovekies are easily blown ashore during severe winter storms. They don’t walk very well on land. If you find a Dovekie on the beach, and it does not appear to be injured, gently pick it up and bring it to the water. And do as Dave did, shoo away interested gulls.
Thank you so much Dave for sharing your photo and for helping the Dovekie back in the water!
Read more about Dovekies here:
SEA RAVEN; RED SCULPIN; SEA SCULPIN; RAVEN; KING o’NORWAY
The sea raven is said to be a good table fish.
See Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953, courtesy of MBL/WHOI http://www.gma.org/fogm/Hemitripterus_americanus.htm
Today, if you looked close, you might have seen sea ravens hurled by the crashing storm waves into the road on the back shore.
Good Morning Gloucester 