My View of Life on the Dock
Of course you do. Last week you saved $10 on tickets to The Toasters Concert Cruise because you were part of the gimmeLIVE pre-sale, right?
Well, just in case you missed that, here’s a BIG HINT: We’ll be announcing another pre-sale to our Concert Club members tomorrow that will save you money. Click here to join and you’ll get the email. Just make sure vickie at gimmesound dot com and gimmeLIVE get through your spam filter.
Beeman Elementary School 4th & 5th Graders present GREASE directed by Heidi Dallin this Thursday & Friday, April 10 & 11 at 7pm. Check out this preview by Cape Ann TV:
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From deb Clarke;
Hi Paul! so pleased to see that you are doing your ahht!
I tend to not work on an easel, but I have a lot of work in progress.
left to right: small mixed media idea panel based on The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
A drawing of a face that I remember, a ‘downtown’ woman that I have not seen on the streets for a few years.
A beginning of a verre eglomise of the tug that was next to the Rockland barge that is working around the harbor.
My messy work space with two verre eglomise in progress. The gold one is of keys, I may change it to a figure panel.
Small mixed media ghost of Versaille.
Another face I remember from working at Bananas.
I haven’t been keeping up with my debbieclarke.blogspot; but may resurrect it as I am now a full time artist.
If folk would like to follow my doings, I keep my facebook up-to-date…err…sometimes minute at http//www.facebook.com/debbie.clarke.5011 where my public posts can be followed.
best,
deb.
Family friend Toby Pett knows just how to get to my heart. A few weeks ago he stopped by with a huge wedge of Parmesan Cheese and a delicious bottle of wine. The bottle was gone that night, but a portion of the Parmesan still remains! Over the weekend I served a small batch of Parmesan Crisps using Toby’s gift of cheese to guest, and they were a huge hit! Parmesan Crisps are delicious accompaniment to any soup salad or antipasto display, and easy enough to whip up a batch for unexpected guest, while the wine is being poured.
Parmesan Crisps
Ingredients
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon fresh oregano; finely chopped (optional)
Step-by-Step
1 combine 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese and 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese together
2 fix 1 1/2 tablespoons cheese mixture into 2 inch biscuit cutter, one inch apart on parchment paper lined cookie sheet
2 combine remaining 1/2 cup shredded and grated Parmesan cheese together; add chopped fresh oregano; mix well; follow step two
3 bake in 350° preheated oven seven minutes; remove from oven; cool five minutes; before serving
Gotta love it when our fishermen are celebrated enough to become bobble heads!
The GloucesterCast Podcast is coming to Stitcher for those of you who have it in your car, you’ll be able to listen to it through your car radio.
I listen to the podcast through the auxillary port and a 3.5 mm jack from my headphone jack on my cell phone because I don’t have a radio system in my car with stitcher. You can get a 3.5 mm connector for something like $6 at radio shack. Good for long rides in the car. Yo can also use it to listen to Pandora and any other audio through your cell phone.
Male Red-Winged Blackbird
Although Red-winged Blackbirds are spied around Niles Pond during the winter months, spring brings flocks, and the males are an especially welcome sight chortling atop the pussy willow branches along the water’s edge. Red-winged Blackbirds are one of North America’s most abundant birds. If you were a male of the kind, you might be singing your heart out, too. The species is highly polygynous and some males have been known to have as many as 15 mates during a single season!
Female Red-winged Blackbird Image Courtesy Wiki Commons Media
The males are glossy black with distinctive red epaulettes and yellow wing bars, which they often puff out confidently when singing from their perches. The females have a streaky brown song sparrow-like wing patterning and stay close to the ground feeding and building their intricately woven nests at the base of cattails and reeds, along the marsh’s edge.
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I am presenting 2 lectures this coming week, Monday on Butterfly Gardening in Shrewsbury and Wednesday evening on The Pollinator Garden at the Flint Library in North Reading. Please visit the events page of my website for more information.
Thank you Beth, Susan, Jessie, Catherine, George, and Charles–an awesome team and an awesome job well done!!!
We had our first Friends of the HarborWalk cleanup this morning and made great progress. We didn’t get to I4-C2 and hope to next weekend.
If you stop by to have a look, you’ll see the diminutive Dwarf-crested Iris (Iris cristata) just beginning to show their sweet little faces. Dwarf-crested Iris are native to Massachusetts and bloom in shades of sky blue, lavender, and darker blues and purples–the HarborWalk’s iris are are deep purple with gold on their crests.
A Duo of Players : A Trio of Instruments
Carolyn and John Skelton bring their combined virtuosity to bear on the Gallery Organ, the Chancel Organ, and the Harpsichord at the Annisquam Village Church on this Palm Sunday program, April 13 at 4 PM, in a delightful concert of duets and solos that includes works of Bach, Handel, Buxtehude, Couperin, and Pinkham. From an antiphonal organ piece to a brilliant exchange between the harpsichord and gallery organ, these two expert players will take full advantage of the three instruments built by Jeremy Adams and the lively acoustic of the historic Village Church at the head of Lobster Cove in Gloucester. Contact: Kathleen Adams, Music Director, 978.283.6416
Jeremy Adams Gallery Organ, Chamber Organ, and Harpsichord
On Sunday, April 6, 2014, the Magnolia Library held an important meeting. Bill Fonvielle, City Councilor Ward 5, facilitated this forum. The panelists were Chief Eric Smith, Deo Braga, (The Azorean, Dunkin Donuts), Tim Flaherty, (YMCA), Mark McDonough, (Serenitee Group), Eric Loiacano, (new owner of property on Lexington Avenue), and Jon von Tetzchner, Innovation House. It was standing room only with more than 200 people attending this event. It was informative, important issues were discussed, such as the Magnolia Fire Station re-opening, the new 525 Restaurant and property under development to help revitalized Lexington Avenue. There was also a questions from the floor to the panelists.
Taking a walk on Main Street Saturday went into the new store, TBT. Beautiful shawls, sweaters, socks, dresses, gloves and jewelry. Everything in the store is from pure Alpaca and the jewelry are made by Richard’s mother in-law, the owner. Here are a couple of pictures and a short video.
The Gloucester Gig Rowers enjoying a cruise around Smiths Cove this beautiful morning with Gannet and Annie B.
The Gloucester Gig Rowers started in 1985, when a group of Cape Ann women approached boat builder Larry Dahlmer and asked him to build them a boat inspired by the pilot gigs of Southwest England. The result was the Siren Song — a 29’, plywood-construction gig. The original group of women remained active until the early 1990s, when other interests and events intervened.
At this point, Siren Song spent some time in dry dock, then was loaned to rowing programs at the Hull Life Saving Museum (Massachusetts) and in Kittery, Maine.
In the spring of 2001, Siren Song returned to Gloucester. Ann Banks organized a new group and created a program within the newly-formed Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. In 2004, a second boat was commissioned by the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center (now Maritime Gloucester) and built by Dave Condino. Launched in the spring of 2007, the Gannet is built to the standards of a traditional Cornish pilot gig.
Over the winter-spring of 2012, a new gig was commissioned to be built at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. This newest gig, named the Annie B in honor of Ann Banks, has been at their dock since summer 2013.
E.J. Lefavour
Meeting at the Magnolia library
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Sista Felicia ~ Love the idea of caramelizing the peeps …yummy! Thank you for sharing your Peeps photos and ideas!
Check out this Fun, Quick & Easy Peeps Chick Sugar Cookie I made for my nieces Friday night… they loved them!
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So, I’m doing some exploring this morning looking for fun things to do with kids, and I landed on good ol’ GLOUCESTERMA.COM. Then I see an ol’ favorite, the Gloucester Maritime Museum, harmless right? It’s a haven for kids, family, education and fun. Fair enough I feel. Then I click on this link
http://www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org
and BOOOOOM!
So, click and tell me what you find!
Good Morning Gloucester 
