While my friend Patti was collecting Milkweed pods for our event today she discovered this little Monarch caterpillar. He still has a few more stages to go through before pupating and won’t be ready to fly to Mexico for two weeks or so. I took him home and got the terrarium back out of the basement. I’ve never seen Monarch caterpillar this late in the year but am hopeful (and excited, too!) #🦋
Patti
Patti’s Catty will be at the event today and I will be happy to answer any questions on raising Monarchs.
Captain Joe’s Dock
Sunday morning from 10:30 to noon.
Captain Joes is located at 95 East Main Street, Gloucester.
Patti Papow Photo
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I’m awaiting the final tally from Maria Seniti. Here are the guesses. The guessing period has closed. Closest guess wins a free hanger steak and two drinks from The Franklin Cape Ann! Thanks for playing!
The winner will be announced on today’s GloucesterCast podcast that we will be taping this morning.
The contest stemmed from the Alicia Unleashed Podcast we taped Thursday evening, you can hear the conversation that sparked the contest timestamp linked by the clicking on the times listed before each topic here-
28:00 The Most Consistent Gloucester Restaurants Over The Longest Period Of Time (Franklin, Passports, Duckworths)
30:17 Maria Seniti At The Franklin Guessing How Long They’ve Been Open, The Hanger Steak, Guessing Game- How Many Hangar Steaks Has The Franklin Served? Guess In the comments, closest wins a Hanger Steak and two drinks.
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My guess was based on 17 years x 340 days per year x 18 Hanger steaks sold per day= 104,040.
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Thank you to Patti Papows for putting together these utterly charming pouches of milkweed seeds for our event tomorrow. We also have loads of milkweed pods and Joe-Pye seeds to distribute so come on down to Captain Joe’s dock Sunday morning from 10:30 to noon. We hope to see you there!Captain Joes is located at 95 East Main Street, Gloucester.
To donate toward the completion of my documentary film Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly, please visit the film’s website at www.monarchbutterflyfilm.com
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The North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau announced that Gloucester’s indispensable, charismatic, smart and joyous Mayor Romeo Theken will receive the 2017 Anne Turcotte Leadership Award on November 8th!
“The North of Boston CVB Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony will be held Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at the Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Sq. West in Salem. Last year, the North of Boston CVB annual meeting was held at Beauport Hotel.
The award is given out at the Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony to an individual or organization whose innovation, expertise and energy serves as an inspiration for others in the tourism industry in the region and beyond.”
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Last night stopped by Cape Ann Collectors at 474 Washington Street, Gloucester to see some more present and past Plein Air paintings. Met one of this year’s artist Joe Lombardo and loved two of his painting, “Breaking Blue” and “Autumn”.
Emile A Gruppe’ “Mending the Nets”
Charles Movalli, “Lobster Cove”
The gallery also has works by past masters, including Emile A. Gruppe’ (1896-1978) and Charles Movalli (1945-2016)
Joe Lombardo
Joe Lombardo
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The beach was dotted with bright yellow bags and dogs this morning for the clean up sponsored by Clean Gloucester/ Gloucester Clean City Commission. Coffee provided by Happy Belly (thanks so much!) brightened up the damp morning. Ainsley told me that almost 40 people helped out by picking up garbage and recyclables at Good Harbor Beach this morning. It seems the weather did not hold anyone back! Great turnout. GMG was well represented by Donna Ardizzoni and FOB Melissa Cox was helping out as well.
These people take the “carry out” rules very seriously!
The Clean Gloucester people were very efficient and friendly. They even re-use the yellow collection bags!! Now, that’s in the spirit of Clean Gloucester! Well done, everyone.
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Besides our regularly scheduled classes, we welcome the community to some great workshops that our teachers are offering this weekend. Visit our website, http://www.treetopyoga.com, to find a detailed description of each workshop and to pre-register. EveryBODY Welcome!
Calling all artists and craft vendors! We still have some spots open for this year’s Essex ClamFest… and we’ve decided to wave the late fee this year. To apply as a vendor, contact Kerry at the Chamber – kerry@capeannchamber.com.
On Saturday, October 21, the Essex ClamFest and Chowder Competition will take place in Essex. The annual event has everything the small town is known for including arts and crafts, K-9 demonstrations, food vendors, Ipswich Ale Local Brews and, of course, the ever popular clam chowder competition. The festival will take place at Shepard Memorial Park in Essex from 11 AM to 4 PM.
The popular clam chowder competition is from noon to 2 PM (while supplies last). It costs $5.00 to enter to chowder tasting area. Nearly 1,000 people taste the best of the best, each voting for their favorite in the People’s Choice Award, while nine esteemed…
Alicia Cox and I were talking about the great restaurants we have in Gloucester on the Alicia Unleashed Podcast 369 last night which you can listen to here-
During the podcast we complimented Maria Seniti and her staff at The Franklin Cape Ann as being one of the most consistently good restaurants in town over a long period of time. Then I got to thinking about that Hanger Steak with pommes frittes that she sells and wondered out loud just how many over the years they have sold seeing as it’s been on the menu as long as I could remember and it’s hard to not order it as its so damn good. Well Maria messaged me last night and offered a free hanger steak and two drinks to whoever guesses closest. So put your guesses in the comments or on the Facebook post on this post. Closest guess wins. We will close it at midnight Saturday for guesses.
The podcast is timestamped so you can go right to the parts you’re interested in-
Topics Include:
Take 2
01:40 Talking about being single differences between now and 20 years ago
25:55 Why Is It That Every Waitress Inevitably Asks You How Your Meal Is The Second You Put A Full Bite Of Food In Your Mouth?
28:00 The Most Consistent Gloucester Restaurants Over The Longest Period Of Time (Franklin, Passports, Duckworths)
30:17 Maria Seniti At The Franklin Guessing How Long They’ve Been Open, The Hanger Steak, Guessing Game- How Many Hangar Steaks Has The Franklin Served? Guess In the comments, closest wins a Hanger Steak and two drinks.
Patti’s Catty
Good Morning Gloucester 