My View of Life on the Dock
Bex submits-
The sun came out just on the horizon over the storm. It was quite a fire glow! Enjoy!
Rebecca Borden
Gloucester, MA 01930
My mother is Gloucester Quilter
http://gloucesterquilter.wordpress.com/
Our vacation apartment is available for rent through VRBO and FlipKey. Read our great reviews!
Joey
Thanks for letting the GMG community know about the upcoming Psychic Weekend at the Blue Shutters (March 8 & 9). We wanted to share details on more plans for off-season events at the Blue Shutters. We’re doing all we can to encourage more folks to visit the area during the winter and spring.
On March 2, we’re holding our first-ever Movie Night. Many friends of the Blue Shutters are wine-lovers, so we’re starting with two wine-themed films — Sideways and Bottle Shock – which we’ll show in our Main Room overlooking Good Harbor Beach.
On March 16, we lighten things up (while warming up from the cold) with a St Patricks Soup-er Bowl competition.
On April 27, we’ll go a bit more classy with a Blue Shutters Tea Party.
And coming up (dates TBD) are another Food & Wine Tasting and our annual Brews & Blues event (with Cape Ann Brewery beer tasting and local musicians on our front lawn).
There’s information on these and other happenings around the Blue Shutters on our blog –www.blueshuttersbeachblog.blogspot.com – but we encourage anyone to call or email us anytime to hear more about all this.
Thanks
Molly Ferrill came down the dock last May. She also did a time lapse video from our dock which you can see below and went out lobstering for a day with Tommy Burns, the same Tommy Burns who took out Ben Grenon. You can see those videos below her latest.
Molly fared a whole lot better than Ben did aboard Tommy’s boat as you will see comparing the two videos.
Al writes-
I’ve been shoveling for more than 70 years, starting back on the farm where we tended to the input and output of 20 cows. Later, I learned in IE 1-01 that 21-1/2 lb is the optimum shovel-load, as determined by none other than Frederick W. Taylor, the father of scientific management. This made perfect sense to me.
Now I have a long driveway, and I don’t mind shoveling it, within certain limits. Nice way to work out and it feels real good to gaze back at what’s been accomplished. And I never get a backache. Because I use a strong, lightweight LONG HANDLED SHOVEL with the perfect aluminum business end. No short handles for me. They should be outlawed – except for little people, of course. You can really send that snow flying off the slippery aluminum.
Where do you find the Perfect Shovel? No place around these parts. I buy mine at Big Blue Farm Supply in Clinton, NC, right in the heart of hog farming country. Perfect for grain, corn and SNOW.
Al Bezanson
PS — I just spotted that photo of David Cox with the exotic S-curve job …. but I will stand by my Big Blue Hog Farmer’s Special.
See Al I agree with you on the aluminum shovel shaped just the way yours is but I like it with a handle. The kind we used for years to ice fish down the dock before they came up with the stupid white plastic ones.
This is how I sound after reading the latest from the Eco Nazi or Psycho Feminist or how some school system wants to take away Valentine’s day because they say it hurts some kids feelings.
On a snowy day
On Eastern Point there is a lovely stately home called Three Waters, so named because from the property the inhabitants can view the three separate waters of Gloucester Harbor, Niles Pond and Brace Cove.
One night recently I had a rare sleepless night during which the words “three waters” kept running across my mind like a broken record. Muses can be very persistent and annoying sometimes. When I got up the next morning, I spent the day creating this montage called “Three Waters”, using 22 different photo layers. I have slept just fine since.
E.J. Lefavour
http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/galleryphotomontage2013.htm
JoeAnn Hart’s book release party at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center was a whopping success. So many congratulations JoeAnn!!! There are few things more monumental than publishing a book with a publishing house, especially in light of the ease in which books are self-published today. I purchased my copy of Float Friday night and haven’t put it down. See GMG tomorrow for an excerpt from Float.
Cover Artist Karen Ristuben and Author JoeAnn Hart
Jen Fahey, Christie Powell, JoeAnn Hart
Tom Hauck, Lois and Philip Budrose
Greg Bover
Karen Ristuben
Visit JoeAnn’s website to purchase your copy of Float.
I had the privilege of attending part of a CAST (Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe) rehearsal (not in costume) for their upcoming presentation of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Here are some photos, alternated with the text of their press release.
Performances February 27 (opening special: all seats $5) through March 2 are at 8 PM; Sunday, March 3 at 3 PM at the Gorton Theatre (home of the Gloucester Stage Company) 267 East Main Street. Tickets, $15, general; $10, student; $5, youth under 19, are available at the door or may be reserved at cast2008@prodigy.net . More information is available atcapeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook.
Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe presents William Shakespeare’s politically charged drama, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a story of ambition, intrigue, betrayal and assassination. Rome is divided between its support for the military hero, Julius Caesar, and the senate of the republic which sees Caesar’s ambition as a threat to its collective power. Under the leadership of Cassius and Brutus, a faction of senators assassinate Caesar sparking a civil war with his supporters, led by Mark Antony and Octavius.
“This is a story which we are currently seeing played out in many parts of the world: Shakespeare’s play is, unfortunately, still very relevant”, points out Joseph Stiliano, the drama’s director. “We see it in the news,and in the video games that challenge our nimble fingered virtual warriors.Our modern-dress production, though not changing the time or place of the action, stresses its current pertinence.”
Written in Shakespeare’s mid-career, it has a spareness and pace that drives the action to its conclusion. It is less a tale of good and evil, than one of clashing world views between factions that can find no common ground.
The cast includes David Adams, Jonathan Arnold, David Cluett, Stephanie Cochran, Richard Crowell, Timothy Edwards, Ashlee Holm, Ray Jenness, Ian O’Connor, Craig Owen, Dominic Parry, Matthew Recine, Jim Robinson, Jessie Sorrells, Ken Stoeffler, and Pauline Wright.
It was still a rehearsal, of course, so fumbling lines led to some hilarity from time to time… More photos of the rehearsal are here with other photos from CAST.
I bet Rob Newton would get this one for us if we had enough folks interested.
TaiChi At The Rocky Neck Cultural Center
WHAT IT IS: A soft, flowing, meditative Martial Art form
WHERE: The Cultural Center, Rocky Neck – 60 Wonson St., Gloucester
DATES: Every Sunday morning, beginning March 10 – May 26
TIMES: Class would begin at 10 am, and end at 11 am. As students want more practice time, and new students join, we will offer practice from 9:30 to 10 am.
COST: $10 per person, per class
SIGN UP: Sign up by emailing Betty: 18730@comcast.net
We can accommodate 15 people. You will be notified if you are among the 15 or on a waiting list.
Certified Instructors: Betty Pijut and Taunyee Robbins
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Sargent House Museum is looking for volunteer readers for its annual “Judith Speaks” program to be held in May. All ages are encouraged to apply.
“Judith Speaks” brings alive the words of Gloucester native, Judith Sargent Murray, one of the nation’s first feminists. As a letter-writer, essayist, poet, novelist and playwright, Judith Sargent Murray wrote tirelessly on behalf of women’s right to an equal education, an equal place in marriage, and a voice in the new republic. The writings she left behind are inspiring, poignant, wry and funny.
To volunteer or to learn more, contact Daniel Sargent Weir at dsweir@live.com
Put your tongue back in your mouth. Gary Just Murdering This Version Of A Pecan Pie. Taking no prisoners. #BOOM!
I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Real world comparison of staple items that I always buy and have on hand. The 5 items were selected ahead of time, not knowing what the prices would be at all three places and without prejudice as to what I thought might be cheaper at one store or another.
The 5 items are Granny Smith Apples, Chobani Yogurt, Store Brand Almonds, Store Brand Plain Soy Milk, Store Brand Peanut Butter.
Round 1: Chobani Yogurt-
Stop and Shop $4.99
Market Basket $4.99
Shaws $6.49
Round 2: Granny Smith Apples
Stop and Shop $1.69 Lb
Market Basket .99 Lb
Shaws $1.17 Lb
Round 3: 40 Oz Store Brand Peanut Butter
Stop and Shop $5.19
Market Basket $4.99
Shaws $5.69
Round 4: Almonds Store Brand
Stop and Shop $8.98 Lb (On Sale) Normally $9.98 Lb
Market Basket $5.05 Lb
Shaws $10.87 Lb
Round 5: Plain Soy Milk Store Brand
Stop and Shop $2.79
Market Basket $2.50
Shaws $3.49
Again remember I did not pre-scout these items to select things that would have outrageous price differences but picked them before I entered the first stop.
My guess that Market Basket was most often much cheaper was confirmed and confirmed by a mile.
If you bought one unit of each of these items at each of these stores your total would be
Stop and Shop $23.64
Market Basket $18.52
Shaws $27.71
The difference of $9.19 more money for the five items at Shaws over Market Basket is ASTOUNDING. That is nearly 50% more money. It would cost you 27% more to purchase the same items at Stop and Shop over Market Basket.
I don’t know about you but when the banks pay you what amounts to negative returns on your money after fees, 27% or 49% savings on your money is HUGE!
This took a while to compile and label each image, I hope it helps you make informed decisions on where to shop.
I pulled within 4 MEPs of her yesterday but when I got to The Manchester Athletic Club she had just finished a 2 Hour session in which she amassed a 300 point lead over me before I cut that lead in half.
She’s a beast. But I’m more consistent. We will see who out perseveres who by the end of the month.
I will say this- there is without question a fire that burns with this whole MZone thing and it’s because of the accountability in the reporting of my workouts. I don’t take breaks when I’m working out because I know that it will affect my score. It pushes you to keep on pushing throughout the entire workout.
It’s Muffy vs your boy Joey C- who ya got?
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and educated at Washington State University, Dr. Peter was a coordinator of programs for emotionally disturbed children at the University of Southern California. As a student of bureaucracies, he was famous for his theory The Peter Principle, and his 1968 book of the same name, which posits that in a hierarchical organization an employee rises until he or she reaches one level above that at which they are competent. In later life he was active in the Kinetic Sculpture Race which occurs in many locations around the world (and looks like a whole lot of fun. Couldn’t we have one on Rocky Neck?)
Good Morning Gloucester 