Two perspectives on an origami turkey, which I folded following the instructions in “Genuine Origami” by Jun Maekawa. The background is a painting by local artist Kathleen Miller.
Community Photos 11/22/12
Dusk from Janet Rice
The colors have been stunning this week!
Thanksgiving Greetings From Ann Kennedy
Sending best wishes to all of you at GMG for a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you for the great continuing coverage of all things Cape Ann!
After leaving MA last month, I stayed on in CT for awhile and happened on this great scene and it seems like a fitting tribute to the season, at least for some folks:-)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Lobster Cove. Not a breath of air from Thomas Hovey
Lobster cove sunset from Thomas Hovey
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Community Stuff 11/22/12
Julie Douglass writes-
Hi Joey
Could you please post this flyer? Rockport Viking Hockey invites all to a family skate and alumni hockey game on Saturday 11/24.
Thank you, Julie Douglass
Joey,
My son Matt Ambrogi is organizing a kids winter clothing collection this weekend in Rockport. Clothing will be accepted on Saturday, Nov. 24, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Rockport Transfer Station, and on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23 and 24, at Ace Hardware in Rockport. A poster for the drive is attached. I’d appreciate it if you could let your readers know about this.
-Bob Ambrogi
Toys For Tots Photos With Santa Toy Drive
Oasis Rockport is holding its first Annual Toys For Tots Photos With Santa Toy Drive on Sunday, December 2nd from 12pm-5pm at the Rockport Community House, 58 Broadway. Admission is a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Toys For Tots. Cocoa, coffee and sweets will be served, holiday music will be played, and Santa, who arrives by fishing boat on December 1st, will be at the event for photos. Everyone who donates will get a free photo with Santa from Oasis Rockport. This is our first annual toy drive, and is being co-sponsored by BearskinNeck.net. Marines will be on hand to help out at the event, along with some of Santa’s helpers. Our website is at www.oasisrockport.com/toysfortots. We are also live on Facebook. A feel good community event like this will bring lots of people together for an enjoyable and festive afternoon.
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Don’t Forget To Take a Picture Of Your Thanksgiving Meal/Table, Send ‘Em In and Will Post Them Here on GMG
Share Your Feast With The GMG Family and We Will Have A Post Thanksgiving Holiday Table Photo Orgy.
Send In Your Holiday Table Photos to goodmorningggloucester@yahoo.com
Gobble Gobble!
Whether you are a big time contributor or casual observer of GMG I hope you have a fantastic holiday filled with great food, family and FOOTBALL!
I’m thankful for all the accomplishments and community events we’ve been pulling off and the relationships created through the blog. I’m thankful for a healthy beautiful family and I’m really really thankful for a family who embraces football on Thanksgiving!
Thanks for stopping by and being part of this giant snowball that just keeps picking up mass and getting bigger as we roll along. Without you we wouldn’t have much reason to keep plugging away at this thing 
Woot!
What are you thankful for?
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James William (Jimmy) Buffett Quote Of The Week From Greg Bover
"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
James William (Jimmy) Buffett (1946- )
A native of Alabama, Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band are best known for their celebration of a laid-back tropical lifestyle typified in songs such as “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” also the names of restaurant chains owned by the singer, author and businessman. Buffett’s loyal fans, known as Parrotheads, turn up in the thousands at each of his many concerts helping him to earn an estimated $100 million a year. Several of his literary efforts, including “A Pirate Looks at Fifty” have been at the top of the NY Times best seller list and he continues to write for and appear in movies and on television. Buffett’s entrepreneurial projects also include two minor league baseball teams, a casino, brands of beer, tequila, salsa, and guacamole. He also flies his own jet, a Dassault Falcon 900.
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Video: Happy Thanksgiving from Captain Joes and Good Morning Gloucester
Plenty to Be Thankful For
Brought to you by Good Morning Gloucester and the crews of lobster boats The Lady J and The Degelyse, and Brian O’Connor. Thanksgiving interviews with, in order of appearance, Joey Ciaramitaro, Ryan, Skipper Dave Jewell, Brain M O’Connor, Michael, Skipper Tuffy, Sean, and Frankie Ciaramitaro.
I’ve Got Plenty to Be Thankful For, sung by Bing Crosby and How Sweet It Is by Marvin Gaye.
Once again, a million and one thank yous to Joey and Frankie for allowing me to film and photograph from the dock at Captain Joe and Sons.
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Shades of Good Harbor
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Third Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons in 2012 Makes Prediction A Push
Also makes New England Aquarium’s assertion that their calico lobster was 1 in 30 million sound a bit ridiculous.
This Calico Lobster Landed today Novmber 21 By The Rockport Lobster Boat The Freemantle Doctor and Captain Mike Tupper. The Same Lobster Boat That Will Be Bringing Santa In To Bearskin Neck For Rockports Christmas Celebration!
Here is the third Calico-
It all started here with the poll we posted on June 4th, 2012-
I’m pegging the over/under on number of speckled lobsters that are landed at our dock this year at 3.
Back on June 1st The New England Aquarium declared the Calico Lobster as one in 30 Million which of course we made found of in this post-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
we also had a poll in that post and took some good natured shots at The New England Aquarium’s obvious attempt to make the calico lobster they had seem like a much bigger deal than it was-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
Posted on June 4, 2012 by Joey C
A couple of weeks ago the New England Aquarium took possession of a calico lobster and was touting it through their marketing efforts as a one in 30 million lobster.
Either the numbers they are using are off or we here at the dock are the luckiest lobster dealers on the planet and should be stocking up on megabucks tickets because we get 2-5 a year.
Click here for pictures of the Calico Lobster at The New England Aquarium
I’m pegging the over/under on number of speckled lobsters that are landed at our dock this year at 3.
Just another mutant to add to the gallery of blue, marbled, albino, speckled, yellow, double clawed, triple clawed and other odd lobsters landed here at our dock, Captain Joe and Sons.
Click below to see the pictures I’ve taken over the years of mutant lobsters landed at our dock.
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What a sky
contrails as the sun was going down.
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Craft Fair and Cookie Walk
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Seen First Here On GMG- View From Gloucester Engineering Turbine
Exclusive Photos From Steven Spencer
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Self-publishing Event at the Sawyer Free Library
Satruday, December 1st from 2-4pm, in the Friend Room at the Sawyer Free Library. With Susan Oleksiw, moderator. The panel includes my husband, Tom Hauck, GMG’s E.J., Kathleen Valentine, Margery Leach, David Simmons, and Jane Ward.
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How Joey found the music for his video, Hitchcock Homie and other fascinating tidbits you probably don’t know
Yesterday, Joey published this Men at Work 4x fast video with music by Gloucester musician Tom Hauck (founder of the Atlantics). So, how did he find that music? Did he go to iTunes and listen to all 8 million songs? Did he remember seeing the Atlantics open for the Ramones in 1976 at The Club in Cambridge and say, Hey Tom’s music would be perfect for this video? Did he ask Kim Smith (Tom’s wife)? Nope.
Joey found Tom’s music on gimmesound.com. Truth be told, he called me first to ask if I had any ideas for up-tempo songs by Gloucester musicians that would fit the spirit of his 4x video. I sent him some ideas, and after listening to a bunch of tunes on gimmesound he chose Tom’s song Stand Up. Of course, he asked Tom for permission first.
If you need music by Gloucester area artists, you can easily get a list of them here. But remember, before you use any music BE SURE TO GET THE ARTIST’S PERMISSION! It’s easy. There’s a CONTACT ARTIST button on every gimmesound Artist Profile (right next to the music player controls). Just click it and type a brief message — be sure to include a way to contact you. Your request will automatically be sent to the artist.
And to all you artists out there, if you want Joey to use your music, just let him know.
Now for the other tidbits about yesterday’s 4x movie. You’ve probably heard of Alfred Hitchcock, right? Besides being one of Hollywood’s greatest directors, Hitch is known for a cameo appearance in all his films beginning with The Lady Vanishes in 1938. Now, if you look at Joey’s movie carefully, you’ll see a cameo by Homie starting at 2:01 for 3 seconds. Hitchcock Homie lands atop the trailer and then flies away.
You’ll also notice that Joey does almost all the work — and you might conclude that’s why he’s fit and trim. But you’d be wrong. The real reason is that nobody he works with is trying to lose weight. See my Monday LOL post for a more complete explanation.
For all you college kids home for the weekend and looking for a good time in advance of your annual Tryptophan fix, check out the HUGE PARTY SCENE in town tonight!
Here’s a video for all you Tryptophan junkies featuring another Joey you might find fun — especially if you were at that Romones show in Cambridge:
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Sista Felicia’s Butternut Leek Soup Video On The Gloucester Times Taste of The Times
From The Gloucester Daily Times-
Felicia Ciaramitaro Mohan serves this butternut squash and leek soup to her guests every Thanksgiving. It is very popular, delicious and you can learn to make it very quickly.
After peeling and cutting up the squash you should cut and clean the leeks. Unfortunately the growing method for leeks causes them to build up dirt inside and requires that you cut and clean them carefully. To clean them you first trim off the root end, leaving about 1/4 inch of the base, which is the white portion. Next you should take off any of the rough outer leaves and throw them away. Then trim each of the darker parts of the leaves down to the light green portion (this is the more tender portion) and leave only an inch or two of green. You may want to reserve the darker green leaves you cut off for other uses.
Click here for the entire article, video and recipe
or click below for the rest of Sista Felicia’s Videos On the Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times Recipe on Demand website-
You can click below to see a listing of all Felicia’s previous recipes on demand (for free!)
I’m adding a tab up top on the site so you can always access Felicia’s Recipes
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Happy Thanksgiving You Know What They’re Doing At Cape Ann Coffee- Pie Makin Baby!
150 Of Them To Be Precise!
check out Brian’s website www.brianmoc.com
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Gloucester Singer releases her first music video
Hello Joey,
Caitlin McGrath, GHS graduate and varsity softball pitcher for the 2002 champs, has just released her first music video "Castles in the Sand" which can be found on her Youtube channel, and Facebook fan page Within the first 5 days she has gotten over 5000 views and people are still sharing it, giving such positive response.
She is the singer, co-writer and co-producer of the video. It was filmed this August in South Beach, Miami FL at sunrise. Caitlin and her team are working on her debut album, expected in the beginning of the year.
She would love to have all of Gloucester have a look through GoodMorningGloucester:
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Nepo!
Seen on the east end of Main Street. The orientation of the letters is right from this side, but “nepo” isn’t a word. On the other side, the letters are in the right order to say “open”, but the letters are flipped the wrong way. Was this an intentional compromise, knowing the banner would be seen from both sides, or is it a mistake?
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A Pretty Day with the Fairy Dog Ma
Here’s Coconut (and a tail of one of her friends) enjoying a walk with their Fairy Dog Ma. Such lucky dogs!
Another great shot of my salty dog with her pal, Paco, in the background.
If you don’t know already– Jen Nicol, aka the Fairy Dog Ma, is the best dog walker/pet sitter on Cape Ann! She has a big heart and takes excellent care of all her fur clients. We have been using Jen for Coconut’s walks since Coconut was just a pup. She’s someone that I trust fully in my home and with the care of my little baby.
The dogs have a blast and they come home tired and well behaved. She always picks up after them and even uses biodegradable poop bags. Plus, we get great emails with photos and/or videos of their adventures.
If you need a dog walker or pet sitter, check out Jen’s website for more info: www.fairydogma.com
~Alicia
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Video- Lobstering 101- Messing Around On The Way Home Aboard The Degelyse
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Ron Gilson Author Of An Island No More Is Selling His Back Shore Condo- Check Out The Video
If interested contact Ron at anislandnomore@comcast.com
87 Atlantic Road End Unit With Sweeping Views Of Thacher Island, Good Harbor Beach, and Bass Rocks.
Click below for the video
Good Morning Gloucester 