First Installment Of Ask Ed – Handyman Questions Answered By Our Ed Collard

New Feature- Ask Ed.

Many of you guys know Ed from our many GMG Man vs Food Challenges.  You might know Ed from his work each weekend cleaning up sections of the City as part of the One Hour at a Time gang with Donna Ardizzoni and Co.  Maybe you saw him in our videos volunteering his time to help clear I4C2.

In any case Ed has been in the home repair and construction business for ever and as a FOB (friend of the Blog) I asked him to do a weekly segment where you the GMg reader could write in your home repair questions in the comment section and at the end of the week I would ask Ed the questions and he would answer them in a weekly video on these pages.

Here is The First Question Sent In By Beth Swan Which Ed Answers In the Video Below

Ed!
Pleased to have met you at the parade and what a great idea! I will have many questions for you as we are constantly working on projects with our 1929 home.

What should you do with a junction box in the ceiling that you no longer use (in this case for a fire alarm that we no longer hard-wire). Should you get a junction box cover, and then patch, seal, and paint, effectively removing it from sight, but leaving those lovely little mysteries for future owners to “discover”? Should you have it removed by an electrician to avoid potential problems (if this is even possible)? Should you just tape a superman poster up over it and pretend the ugly little problem never reared it’s tiny head?

—NOT an electrician

Ed offers honest and fair handyman  services.

you can contact him directly for Home repair work at 978-479-6401

or his email housedoctors@verizon.net

Feel free to ask Ed a home repair question in the comment section here at Good Morning Gloucester and we will answer it in a video segment

or if you would like to visit Ed’s Website and sign up for his homeowners newsletter you can check that out here http://www.housedoctors.com/collard/home/

Ask Ed! Ask Ed Collard A Home Repair Question On GMG and Get Your Answer

New Feature- Ask Ed.

Many of you guys know Ed from our many GMg Man vs Food Challenges.  or you might know Ed from his work each weekend cleaning up sections of the City as part of the One Hour at a Time gang with Donna Ardizzoni and Co.  Maybe you saw him in our videos volunteering his time to help clear I4C2.

In any case Ed has been in the home repair and construction business for ever and as a FOB (friend of the Blog) I asked him to do a weekly segment where you the GMg reader could write in your home repair questions in the comment section and at the end of the week I would ask Ed the questions and he would answer them in a weekly video on these pages.

Watch the video for more info-

Ed offers honest and fair handyman  services.

you can contact him directly for Home repair work at 978-479-6401

or his email housedoctors@verizon.net

Feel free to ask Ed a Home repair Question and we will answer it in a video segment

You Don’t Suppose

You don’t suppose these guys are making up for other inadequacies in their life by sporting the big lenses do you? 🙂

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David Cox-Manny Simoes- Ed Collard Left to Right

I4C2 Beautification Review Video At The Site

Ed Collard walks us around the site and details the work that took place at the I4C2 beautification project May 22, 2010

About a third of the way into the video there is a very useful tip that could save you money!

Kudos to all that were involved

Bring Your Thinnings I4C2 Planting Day Sat May 22

Saturday is bring your thinnings To I4C2 and have them planted and help clean the joint up day.

Anyone that bitched about the way it looked at that site for years, now is your chance to do something about it.

Get To The Corndog Challenge- Or Deal With Ed!

Thursday Night  8PM

The Farm Bar and Grille- Don’t Make Me Send Ed Out For You

I Don’t Want It To Get Any More Ugly Than We Have To

 

GMG Farm Bar and Grille Corndog Challenge -Ed Collard Calls Out The Other Competitors

Eating A Frog

What am I doing?

Well I’m taking a break.

You see I just ate a frog.  Not literally.  Let me explain.

The Federal Government has decided to change the reporting requirements for lobster dealers.   I used to be able to generate a report of our lobster landings from our accounting software.   The amount of data and pieces of information the govt asks for IMO is fucking rediculous and the system for reporting it absolutely crazy redundant and time consuming.  I used to be able to customize a report from my accounting software print it out and fax it in but now I need to break all that data down and enter the data bit by bit manually.  What used to take me a short while now takes me hours and hours and in the summer when we have 10 times the landings, that amount of work will multiply by the same amount.

To say I’m not happy is an understatement.  Thankfully a  nice guy from the reporting department came by to help me make sense of it all and for that I am truly grateful but it doesn’t lessen the fact that this software that is used for the reports is absolute fucking horseshit.

Anyway I’ve been having a pile of these reports hanging over my head all month long and it’s been nagging at me.  This morning good egg Ed Collard was down the dock and when I kept reiterating my displeasure with having to get these reports done Ed told me a great story.

He sid he read a motivational book which said this-  Imagine that you’re facing a day where you  have to eat a frog.  Best thing to do is to get right to it and eat that godamn frog.  Then for the rest of the day once you eat the frog the worst part is behind you.  Chances are it won’t get worse than that.

So that’s what I’ve been doing all morning.  Banging out a weeks worth of government reports or as I’ll call it from here on out- Eating the frog.

Not Me-

What’s Happening On The Other Side Of The Pond You Ask?

The Spiegeltent is in town.

Check out the story on BBC Gloucestershire

The Spiegeltent is an ornate travelling ball-room which was originally made in Belgium in the 19th Century. It is one of only a handful that remain in existence. 

Thanks to Ed Collard for forwarding the story.

Greg Smith, Ed Collard and Russell Hobbs Attach The Star To The Lobster Trap Tree 40 Feet Up

Building The Lobster Trap Tree Day II Slide Show -Pics From Thom Falzorano

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Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Building Part II Video

Unstoppable- Unfazed-Undeterred!

Nothing’s Stopping This Crew!!! Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Building Pics and Slide Show From Thom Falzorano!

Driving Rain- Check

40 Mile Per Hour Winds- Check

I guess it’s perfect weather to build-

THE WORLDS LARGEST LOBSTER TRAP TREE!!!!!!!

That’s The Gloucester One In Case You WERE WONDERING!

Thom Falzorano captured Day One Beautifly In Pictures for GMG!

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Rain Nor High Winds Will Stop Out Lobster Trap Tree From Being Erected!

Rockland Lobster Trap Tree vs Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Ed Collard Calls It Like He Sees It

FEVER PITCH- AND THEN THERE WERE TWO!!!

If you haven’t watched any of the videos thus far from the GMG Farm Bar and Grille Hot Wing Challenge you owe it to yourself to look at these final ones.  It is where things reach climactic levels filled with suspense, drama, chaos and the conclusion.

Round Five Gets Underway At The GMG Farm Bar and Grille Hot Wing Challenge

Round 4- One Million Scoville Units Videos

Round Four jumps up from 235,000 scoville heat index units to 1,000,000

4.7 MILLION SCOVILLE UNITS!!!!!!

 

4.7 MILLION SCOVILLE UNITS!!!!!!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Team Doe- Re- Me Represents!
Fandemonium!
Impartial Judge Paul Morrison- "PAULLL!! WHERE'S PAUL?"
Team Chupo
Special Thanks To The Rabbit and Lauren From North Shore Magazine
Big Lar Developing A Huge Fan Base!

Round Three -Separating the Wheat From The Chaff

Round three brings us 235,000 scoville units of heat