“I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My View of Life on the Dock
“I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This week’s clash of the gods features the return match of Euphonium, the Roman God of fake IDs, versus Hernia, the Greek Goddess of surgical appliances. No! Wait! That’s my tri-polar self talking. Indeed, I hear voices in other people’s heads! This is what they really tell me:
This Thursday sees the fabulous return of guitar slingers Mr.Bob Davis, aka Johnny Carbuncle and Mr. Dave Brown, the world’s biggest… practitioners of bigness,that is, as their incredible styles clash and remagnetize in the sphere of possibilities. The Atomic Clock, Mr. Dave Mattacks, provides the impetus: I provide the Basest. this is the Rhumb line, where all is possible. This is Thursday: hours:8:30 to 11:30.
Yours truly, Dave


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City of Gloucester FREE summertime events–there are options most every night of the week!
(weekly) Mondays Cape Ann Farmer’s Market at Magnolia
(weekly) Wednesdays Gloucester HarborWalk summer cinema (three more to go- Minions next week!)
(weekly) Thursdays Cape Ann Farmers Market and Harbor Loop Concerts
(weekly) Fridays Music on Meetinghouse green
(monthly) Saturday block parties
(weekly) Sunday Stage Fort Antonio Gentile Bandstand concerts
Captain Steve Douglas, navigates around Gloucester Harbor, entertaining and educating tourists.
The water shuttle on the Lady Jillian is operated by Cape Ann Harbor Tours.
More Cape Ann Dining News – http://www.capeanneats.com
Here’s Our Manager Myles Picking Up Today’s Fresh Caught Lobsters At Captain Joe and Sons. And while there the boys gave him “Blue” the Super Rare blue lobster so our customers could view it!
Come buy the Lobster Pool this week to see “Blue!”



The folks at Willow Rest are shooting for a Saturday re-opening…I’ll keep you posted! 😀

I’ve alway said that the best part about photography is what I learn about what I’m shooting and the people I meet along the way. Last night I was out, so I thought I would try to catch the moon since I missed the actual full moon the night before. I headed over to GHB and grabbed my gear out of the car, but there is just something about a camera with a big lens that makes people want to sidle up to you and chat. Little do they realize that I had about a 10 minute window to get what I was after, and alas I did not get the shot I was going for, but I did however chat with a family whose young son told me that this was a “Full Buck Moon” which represents the time of the year when the male deer start to grow antlers (hmmm….didn’t know that!). Then I ran into my niece (or she ran into me while she was out running and she then proceeded to photobomb my moon pic (which she thought she ruined, but I thought it will be a fun memory of “that summer night when…”) and finally I met Ed Comer who runs the Blue Shutters Inn across the street and was out admiring the moon with his guests the rest of us! So no…I didn’t get a NatGeo quality photo, but I still had a GOOD night of photography!!

Appleton Farms has 4 great events coming up this weekend! (Please click on the name of the event to learn more).
Saturday brings Rise and Shine Little Farmers and Butter in the Barnyard
Sunday’s activities include Fun in the Farmyard and Meet the Machines and Summer Picnic.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT EACH EVENT AND TO REGISTER
Saturday, July 23rd 12:00-7:00. Tickets 21+ $10, Kids are Free



READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE http://reverebeach.com/sand-sculpting-2016/
This year’s festival will run Friday, July 22nd to Sunday, July 24th, 2016 and has a theme of Science, Technology, and Innovation. The event will highlight Massachusetts as a leader in the development and implementation of new and emerging technologies and discoveries by showcasing the innovation that is happening right here.
Hours for the 2016 Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival on Friday, July 22nd and Saturday, July 23rd are 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Sunday, July 24th 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. It is recommended to use the MBTA and public transportation to and from this event. The MBTA Blue Line can be taken to the Wonderland or Revere Beach stops. Free parking and shuttle service to the T will be available at Suffolk Downs. Parking is also available at the Wonderland Garage.
For a more comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
Someone was complaining that they love their Tumbler and can’t believe how long it kept the ice even in a blazing hot car all afternoon but they wished it had a locking lid. I researched it and found this one that actually throws in a second sliding lock lid and is even cheaper!
Kate LOVES the fact that she can load hers up with iced water and put it on her nightstand and it doesn’t sweat at all. No need for coasters and saves your coffee tables from those nasty condensation rings!
Here’s the link to order one- order on Amazon here for $16.95 with free shipping if you’ve got Amazon prime
You can get in on the Cape Ann Coffees Mug Club where you bring in your 30 OZ Tumbler, Slap on a provided GMG sticker and get your XL coffee for the price of a Large! Read the details here about the Cape Ann Coffees Mug Club
You could order one but I guarantee that your spouse is going to want one. Guarantee, LOL!
Joey C ~
A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.
The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com
To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.

Three Sheets to the Wind is an old sailing term and refers to a ship whose sheets (lines) have come loose, causing the sails to flap uncontrolled and the ship to sh…udder and roll (like a staggering drunk) and meander at the mercy of the elements.
Three Sheets to the Wind is also a Gloucester chantey/sea music group. Many of the crew have years of established song and sea history to offer and create a perfect storm of song and good cheer. Their vocals, harmonies and instrument skills are phenomenal, and they have a great time performing and drawing the audience into the fun. https://www.facebook.com/threesheetstothewindgloucesterma/
This is concert three in a series of nine free outdoor concerts presented by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation. The family-friendly concert begins at 6 pm. Bring a picnic, folding chairs or blankets. In case of rain, the event will take place inside the Meetinghouse (no food or drink permitted inside.)
The public will be invited to make free-will donations and all collected monies will go to the Schooner Adventure.
The Gloucester Adventure, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit maritime historic preservation and educational organization. We are the stewards of the 1926 dory-fishing Schooner Adventure. Our mission begins with restoration and preservation in perpetuity of the National Historic Landmark Schooner Adventure, one of the last surviving Grand Banks dory-fishing schooners. The Schooner Adventure is a national treasure that has resumed active sailing as an icon of the American fisheries and as a floating classroom for maritime history and environmental education programs. The Schooner will be operated at sea, primarily along the New England coast, as a living monument to Massachusetts’ fishing heritage. As such, the Schooner Adventure is important not only to Gloucester, but also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and all America. http://schooner-adventure.org/
July’s Gloucester Block Party was a great one!! People filled the street to support the Main Street Merchants and enjoy the wonderful vendors and entertainment. Save the date to join us on Main Street on Saturday, August 20 for the next Block Party event!
Visit gloucesterblockparty.com for vendor info and schedules of performances as we get closer to the August Block Party. You can also follow along for updates on Facebook and Instagram!
After spending the past eight weeks filming the sparrow-sized Piping Plovers, it was fun to unexpectedly encounter these tubby Common Tern fledglings. Although able to fly, they stood at the water’s edge, unrelentingly demanding to be fed. The adults willingly obliged.
Unlike plovers, which can feed themselves within hours after hatching (the term is precocial), tern fledglings are semi-precocial, which means they are somewhat mobile at hatching but remain and are fed by their parents. Terns and gulls are semi-precocial.
The fledglings appear larger than the adults and are very well fed. Both parents feed their young. The terns are building fat reserves for the long migration to the South American tropical coasts, some traveling as far as Peru and Argentina.
Although unperturbed by my presence, they sure did not like the seagulls. Any that ventured near the fledglings feeding were told in the most cheekiest of terms to buzz off–dive bombing, nipping, and nonstop loudly squawking–the intruder did not stick around for very long.
Common Tern populations are in decline, most probably because of pesticide poisoning and habitat loss.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BICx5djD0G4/

With all the craziness of a work schedule, taking care of your families, the most important thing to do is RELAX, as it says on my beach chair and everything else will fall into place.
