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My View of Life on the Dock


Heard from Dave Moore the other day. His wife fracture a bone and sending her our best. Dave also sent me this beautiful card for a Happy New Year 2016.

Thank you to Terry Weber and Eoin Vincent for alerting us to this fantastic Snowy Owl shot!!
CBS News:
Spectacular images of a snowy owl in flight have been captured by Transport Quebec’s traffic camera along Montreal’s Highway 40.
The images were captured on Jan. 3 by a traffic camera at Highway 40 and Sources Boulevard.
Transport Minister Robert Poëti tweeted about the owl early Thursday morning, and the province later released video footage.
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Saturday, Jan. 9th at 1:00pm
Bring the whole family and join along with the Optimistic Voices Senior Choir and La Petite Chorale who will sing, sign and dance with you to favorite oldies, children’s and holiday songs. Awaken your senses and minds with this fun challenge and light up your day!
Free and open to the public.

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Spend February Vacation at Maritime Gloucester for Sea Creatures of Cape Ann. The program runs Tuesday through Friday and includes a variety of activities in the classroom, microscope laboratory, wet lab, and museum. Students may enroll for one day or for the entire four days. There are two different programs based on age of the students that are offered during the four-days—one for Pre-K to K (ages 3.5-5) and the other for Grades 1-5. The Pre-K/K drop-in program runs from 9:00 am-10:30 am and children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Grade 1-5 program runs from 8:30 am-3:30 pm; after care until 5:00 pm is available for Grade 1-5 students for an additional fee. For more information and to register online, please visit click here.
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Suellen Wedmore, poet laureate emerita for the town of Rockport, has been painting since she was a teenager. She has studied painting with Skip Lawrence of Pemaquid, Maine, at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is presently in a workshop with Ron Straka at the Rockport Art Association. She recently won first place in the Quill’s Edge Press “Woman on the Edge” contest, and her poetry chapbook , Mind the Light, was published with her painting of Thacher Island’s north tower on the cover. (The book is available at Toad Hall Bookstore, from the author, or on-line at the Thacher Island website and at the Quill’s Edge Press website.)



The four Cape Ann public libraries are launching a yearlong innovative community reading program! The Cape Ann Museum is hosting the CAPE ANN READS kickoff event…
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EnergySage Is A Game Changer. They couldn’t make learning about solar quicker, more transparent or easier to understand than this. In my quest to bring more info to you, my peeps, I went into EnergySage Headquarters and spoke with Senior Solar Advisor Kimberly Le who demonstrated just how few clicks it takes to get an instant estimate and then how after you register with a few more clicks that you can get a bunch of area solar installers (who are all vetted and approved by EnergySage) and have user ratings in their profiles (much like the way Amazon or Trip Advisor has user generated reviews) which give you an idea of how happy people are with their installations.
The part I like best is how all of the different Solar companies compete for your business, and they all load their quotes in a standardized way that EnergySage set up so that you can compare each installer’s quotes side by side. Aaaaand then to take it even a step further, EnergySage takes the equipment that each solar installer is proposing for your project and rates the solar panels in a grading system. Aaaaaand you always have access to totally impartial passionate about Solar, EnergySage Solar Advisors that can further guide you and answer any questions you may have along the way.
You know how I’m all about the No-Brainer initiatives that are wins for everyone involved. Well this is literally a NO-Risk, everything to gain, super simple, super fast way to check out Solar options for you.
Check out the first interview I did with Kimberly Le, Senior Solar Advisor for EnergySage right here and then check out the EnergySage Website and for zero cost just fill out the measly three fields to get an instant quote. You don’t even have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to.
Here’s the link to get an instant estimate- EnergySage
Once you get an instant estimate based on your address, you can register to get access to the marketplace where the different EnergySage Vetted and Approved Installers start to email you quotes and they appear in your EnergySage Marketplace Dashboard side by side where you can compare things like what each installer is proposing for a warrantee, each installer’s user generated reviews, an installation target date, what type of panels they propose to use, and more. Best part is that on every page there are little question marks that when you click on them, explain in further detail what each term means, also there’s an EnergySage Advisor that is just a mouse click away that will help you as well if you have any questions.
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As our local ponds begin to freeze, look for diving ducks along the sea’s edge. They are hunting for mollusks, crustaceans, snails, shrimp, and other small creatures.
Niles Pond Canvasback Duck with Male and Female Ring-necked Ducks
I haven’t seen the Canvasback or Ring-necked Ducks since Niles Pond started to freeze on Monday. Only partially frozen in some areas and with the warmer weekend temperatures predicted, I hope they’ll return soon!
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Interesting short video of eiders diving for mollusks in the Arctic ~

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to offer free admission to all residents of Cape Ann (Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea) during the month of January 2016. Visit us and see what we have to offer!
January is also Membership Month at the Cape Ann Museum. Membership and donations support the special exhibitions and programming that the Museum offers its communities. We hope that a trip to the Museum will encourage all visitors to become members and join us in sharing the art, history and culture of Cape Ann.
Visitors in January will be treated to two special exhibitions: Gloucester, Three Visions featuring the work of Jeff Weaver, Peter Vincent and Don Gorvett and Gloucester: A Community of Neighborhoods quilt project, overseen by artist Juni Van Dyke, the quilts showcase the work of nearly one hundred senior artists across Cape Ann.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (December 29, 2015) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present an opportunity to become more intimate with its collections. On Saturday, January 9, the docents of the Cape Ann Museum will offer six twenty minute tours focusing on a topic of their choosing. Tours will begin on the hour and on the half hour. Reservations are not required, but space is limited – first come, first served. Free for CAM Members and Cape Ann Residents or with Museum admission. For more information please email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10.

Participants are encouraged to spend the entire morning at the Museum, enjoying two, three, perhaps all six of the tours! To plan your day accordingly, please see the schedule below:

The beginning of the season we looked invincible. After an enormous amount of key injuries, the past two weeks of Patriots football have been painful to watch. If I’ve learned anything as a Pats fan it’s to never count ’em out but for most teams, winning a Superbowl is a culmination of a whole bunch of bounces and breaks all going your way as you roll through the playoffs. In past Superbowl wins it seems like the confidence is off the charts and everyone is smiling and you roll through the playoffs with momentum. Right now there seems to be zero momentum. Having the bye week will most certainly…
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Is it not like 10 times a day you hear about something going wrong with these hoverboards?

