My View of Life on the Dock
World View! A Benefit Concert for Temple Ahavat Achim honoring Amy and Mark Adrian Farber for their 40 years of service!
Sunday, March 23rd at 4 pm at the breathtaking Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA!
Tickets are almost sold out – get yours NOW! General admission is $50/per person.
We look forward to seeing you at this fabulous event!!
This morning my new comare Maria Cannavo came over to help me make the St. Joseph bread for tomorrow feast. In less then 3 hours we sampled our first batch of hot Italian bread… Heavenly….. OMG …..Delicious! Monday we plan to meet again to make the bread for Next Tuesday nights S.t Joseph Trolley Festivities! Thank you Maria I’t always fun baking with you! XO Muah
It must be warm being in the sun and between the window and the shade. As is said sometimes, these shots were “offense by accident”, I saw this guy out of the corner of my eye driving through Magnolia. Turned around and he waited for me…
Mill River Winter
This was one of the favorite areas for a Frontiero family get together when I was young. Cookout, games, food and swimming. lasted from about 8am til 7pm. Great Memories.
Orange and Finochio (fennel) Salad
all photos and recipe from Sista Felicia
Ingredients:
5 Finochio (fennel bulbs)
8 oranges
1/2 cup fresh mint leaves
¼ cup fresh oregano leaves
1 medium onion
Juice of 2 lemons
½ cup pitted black olives
¾ cup olive oil
1 tablespoon Masala wine
1 teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon fresh ground pepper
¼ cup fresh squeezed orange juice
Step 1: using a sharp knife cut both ends of orange, off and discards ends
Step 2: place flat side of orange on a cutting board and place the blade of the knife under the pith of orange and guide the knife in a downward direction removing the skin
Step 3: repeat steps 1 & 2 with remaining oranges
Step 4: place one skinless orange in your hand and insert a paring knife into both sides of orange sections membrane’s to remove skinless orange slices and reserve in a bowl
Step 5: reserve fresh orange juices in a small bowl by squeezing juices from reaming sectioned orange membranes
Step 6: remove the long stems and any outer damaged skins from the fennel bulbs and discard
Step 7: Using a mandolin slice onion very thin and reserve
Step 8: using mandolin slice fennel bulbs very thin and reserve
Step 9: Juice lemons over a small strainer to capture any seeds and pulp
Step 10: chop fresh mint
Step 11: Chop fresh oregano
Step 12: layer ½ Finochio (fennel) slices onto a large platter
Step 13: top Finochio (fennel) slices with 1/2 of the orange slices
Step 14: layer ½ the onion slices over the orange layer
Step 15 Repeat steps 12, 13, and 14
Step 16: Sprinkle chopped mint and orange over the top layer
Step 17: scatter black olives over the top of the salad
Step 18: add reserved orange juice, olive oil, masala wine, sugar, salt and pepper to the lemon juice pulse until dressing ingredients become evenly incorporated
Step 19: pour evenly over the entire salad and finish with a dusting of fresh ground pepper, serve at room temperature or chill in the refrigerator for one hour before serving
Enjoy!
Effff. Again. What the hell is my problem?
I need spring to hurry up and get here, like yesterday.
Speaking of yesterday…
Yesterday, I grabbed my keys and phone, threw on my coat, realized I had a second to actually pee alone, took the opportunity to multitask by simultaneously going over my mental to-do list, and then heard voices. I actually took a second to look in the toilet….cause, you know, its possible that the voice was coming from there….and then dismissed it, flushed, zipped, washed my hands (honestly), and ran out the door. I took my phone out of my pocket to check the time….and realized where the voice was coming from. Efff. Pocket dialed mid pee. Left a message of the whole damn thing.
Flash forward just a few short hours. Got home, unpacked backpacks, hung up coats, unpacked lunch boxes, chucked filthy snow pants + jackets into the laundry, jumped into shower….with…my…socks…on…again. Yes, again. Because, unbelievably, I did that once last year too.
What the hell?! Mid march madness in my mommy brain? Seasonal distressed disorder causing disorder to my order?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming to be busier than anyone else…maybe just stupider. (see what i did there) 😉
But not this stupid, yet.
Gloucester Railway,Rocky Neck photo From Anthony Marks
The burned out hulk of a house at the corner of Washington st. and
Mansfield st is finely being demolished after two and a half years. In
its place will be a new building with retail space on the first floor
and townhouses on the upper floors.
Woodpeckers from Gail Byrnes
Marine Forecast…
Fri: W winds 10 to 15 kt…becoming SW in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Fri Night: SW winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Sunrise 6:53AM Sunset 6:49PM
High Tide10:42am / 9.0 / 11:07PM / 8.7
Low Tide 4:20AM / 0.9 / 4:48PM / 0.5
Moon
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 91% ↑
Age: 12 Days
Video Cast …..
Possible scenario for Monday ! Stay tuned .. To early to tell …
Hourly Forecast ….
Thanks for viewing …
Peter Lovasco
GMG
Weatherman AKA “Lovascometer “
Hey there Joey! Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field Community Garden are co-hosting our first annual seed swap – here’s the info! Thank you for your awesomeness!
Join Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field Community Garden
for our first annual SEED SWAP event!
Come for new seeds, bring your own from last year to trade with friends and neighbors, and get some support perusing this year’s seed catalogues and dreaming of the harvest you will reap from your vegetable garden.
We’ll also be offering a couple demonstrations: seed starting basics and how to make a plastic bottle sub-irrigation system.
WHO: All folks associated with Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field
PLUS any and all local gardeners who would like to join us!
WHERE: City Hall Auditorium
WHEN: Tuesday, April 1 from 6:30-8 PM
BRING: The event is free, but please make sure you bring seeds to swap!
QUESTIONS: Contact Lara atlara@backyardgrowers.org
or Courtney atburnhamfieldcommunitygarden@gmail.com
RSVP on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/BackyardGrowersProgram/posts/795394827156520
For more info on Backyard Growers: www.backyardgrowers.org
For more info on Burnham’s Field Community Garden: www.burnhamsfield.org/community-garden
Gloucester Police Department, Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, and Gloucester U at Gloucester High School have partnered to bring a brand new course to the Gloucester U after-school program!
Students will work hands on with GPD and other instructors from the field, travel to various exciting locations, and even have the opportunity to earn 1 academic credit!
Click the link below to Register for the Course! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/175dEHKu5mb3oyFkKRXAHcGlHI8XDlKqwL9BZSs9Whns/viewform
For more information got to Go to http://gloucesteru.weebly.com/new-course-offerings-session-2.html or Contact:
Samantha Whitney
Lead Program Coordinator
Gloucester High School Library
A Reading & Discussion from David Abel about Poet Edward Marshall
Gloucester, MA – On March 28, the Gloucester Writers Center presents a reading by David Abel from his own work and a discussion about his ongoing research into the work of poet Edward Marshall at the Gloucester Writers Center, 126 E Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 from 7:30-9pm.
Poet, editor, and bookseller David Abel is the author most recently of Float (Chax Press), Tether (Barebone Books), andCarrier (c_L Books). A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, entering its thirteenth year, with Sam Lohmann he publishes the Airfoil poetry chapbook series. He is the proprietor of Passages Bookshop, and was an inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art. Recently he curated the exhibitions Chax Press: Publishing Poetics for Pacific NW College of Art and Object Poems for 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
The Gloucester Writers Center was founded in 2010 to save the late poet Vincent Ferrini’s home and turn it into a working writer’s center. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate Cape Ann’s rich literary legacy and to encourage writing and the belief that all voices count.
If you would like more information about what the Gloucester Writers Center does or any of the recent events, workshops and classes visit gloucesterwriters.org
“The Gloucester Writers Center is a working writer’s center in a working town.“
Dear Joe,
I wrote to you in November 2012 about a fishing tag from the Net Profit, from when it was owned by the late Joe Ciaramitaro.
Last Thursday I found a tag from F/V Endeavour. When I looked it up on Google it looks as though it comes from your area, so I thought that you might be interested. I don’t find many of the rectangular tags, all the ones that I have found are mounted on a board on my garage wall. I thought that you might know some of their owners or where they come from.
As you will see from the photo we do find quite a lot of lobster trap tags. Here in Perranporth Cornwall most of the them are from Newfoundland and Labrador. We have had a lot of storms this winter & unusually high tides for the last three months. This has resulted in large quantities of plastic being washed up – some from across the Atlantic & a lot from more local places.
Best Wishes,
Chris Easton
Here’s the post from November 9, 2012-
Posted on November 9, 2012 by Joey C
Chris Easton writes- Dear Joey, Earlier this year I found a fishing tag which I think may be yours. It reads F/V NET PROFIT 7918 JOE CIARAMITARO along the bottom. I enjoy walking along the strand line on my local … Continue reading →
HeraldNews – Last Saturday’s Division 3 South boys’ basketball final between Westport and Cardinal Spellman at UMass Boston might be best remembered for a most conspicuous incident which occurred before the teams even tipped off. Just after public address announcer Joe Rocha had started to introduce the Spellman starters, South tourney director Karen McDonald completed a quick march to the scorer’s table, grabbed the microphone, and spoke directly to some of the younger Westport fans in the bleachers directly behind the Wildcat bench. These fans had, when the Spellman intro started, turned their backs to the court, one of those orchestrated moves (like holding up newspapers) fans do. McDonald obviously saw it as a violation of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s fan sportsmanship policy, one that is read over the PA before games. In what seemed like an order in the guise of a request, McDonald asked the fans to turn back around.
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Teaching Ananda how to make the Zeppole filling …This year we are planning to make 125 Zeppole for our St. Joseph Feast! ….Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
Sfinci di San Giuseppe
For non-Sicilians, like myself, you may be wondering what exactly are Sfinci di San Giuseppe? The way Maria, Nina, and Domenic make them, Sfinci are amazing creamy puffs, fried to golden-brown perfection, and filled with Caffe Sicilia’s heavenly light and fluffy sweetened ricotta, or the same ricotta, with mini-chocolate chips added.
Inside the beautiful box of Zepplole that Maria sent me home with after filming, were two Sfinci’s made moments earlier, fillled with ricotta, and garnished with candied orange peel and cherry. I hope my husband and son never read this post because after eating the first Sfinci di San Giuseppe, it was so fabulously delicious that I never gave anyone else a chance to try one and ate the second (although managing to save them each a Zeppole)! Habit-forming!
Sfinci have been a part of Sicilian cuisine for centuries. Traditionally they were served for dessert on Saint Joseph’s Day. Today they are a specialty of Palermo and are served all year round. Both Maria’s parents, Nina and Domenic Damico, were born outside of Palermo and spent their early childhoods there. I imagine that is one reason why the family knows how to create this sumptuously yummy treat!!! Sfinci is a wonderfully fun word to say and is pronounced something like this: sah-fin-chee, only you say the sah-fin syllables very quickly together.
Caffe Sicilia’s Sfinci di San Giuseppe are available, as are their Zeppole, through Easter. Because their Sfinci fly out the door as quickly as their Zeppole, place your orders for both ahead of time and call (978) 283-2345.
Retired art teacher Naomi Lee has rediscovered her love for the arts over the past few years through painting. Naomi was an art teacher for over 20 years, specializing in pottery. She took an unconventional approach to teaching by really giving her students the freedom to create their own individual pieces.
Naomi resides in Gloucester, MA. She finds her inspiration in the beauty that nature creates and the local nautical surroundings. She believes in the calm of the moon, the warmth of the sun, the strength of the wind and the power of the sea. Her work mostly consists of seascape paintings.
Naomi is a member of The Beverly Guild of Artists, The Salem Art Association, The Magnolia Art Association, and takes part in The Marblehead Festival of Arts. She also offers greeting cards and some prints of her paintings for sale. Naomi can be contacted at 781-710-1080.
By Jamie Panarello
Naomi’s painting’s and reproductions are on display at:
Addidson Gilbert Hospital
298 Washington St
Phone number(978) 283-4000
Dave says,
I’m psyched this week cuz my favorite gaggle of comedic cats are showing up for another roast. It’s been a long time so let’s welcome back Mr. Ricky “King” Russell. Ricky had a terrible accident a while ago at CERN when a stray Higgs boson collided with one of his guitar licks,splitting several atoms and his pants. His tailor has pronounced him fit to play.
http://www.rickykingrussell.com/
Next, there’s “Mr.Ed” Scheer, equine vocalist and world’s foremost Diaperene® expert, on drums. Ed is always laughing at anything I say, even when it’s not funny. Go figure.
Then, girls, there’s “Super Mario” Perrett, former rockstar and Hai Karate© spokesmodel, on tenor sax. Gawd, he is so handsome! See for yourself.
And finally, there’s me, but you know that. But seriously, folks, I love these guys; they all play and sing so well, and laugh so loud. I nearly choked to death on my fifth drink last time. You will, too. Come early and stay late! We hit at 8 P.M.
THE RHUMB LINE BAR & RESTAURANT
40 Railroad Ave.
Gloucester, MA 01930
phone: 978-283-9732
http://www.therhumbline.com/index.htm
Good Morning Gloucester 