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Thursday, August 30. 2018

Cape Cod

Nice Wellfleet house, short stroll to town on a sand/gravel road. Some core of this house is mid-1800s, but much done since then. Magnificent tree. I usually know these things, but not sure what species. I did not wish to intrude.


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Lovely looking place. I'll be on the Cape this weekend, staying in an 1860's era sea captain's house. The sea captain isn't around anymore, my wife's family has owned the place since 1980. Short stroll to a private beach (neighborhood). The only downside to such a house is that there are always little projects that need doing. Repairing a wooden bulkhead this weekend. Probably a few other small issues to address too. But I'm not complaining. Low tide is around 7am so we'll be able to collect quahogs and then swimming will be ideal in the afternoon.
#1 steve walsh on 2018-08-31 07:11 (Reply)
I think it's probably safe to reveal one memorable starlit summer night at Cape Cod in the late Seventies when my girlfriend of the time and I lay in the sand giggling and kissing while US military aircraft kept flying out to the ocean over us (from what I today know is Joint Base Cape Cod).

The other memory of have of Cape Cod was the simple pleasure of a large ice-cold bottle of Bud and a small carton of fried clams on a sweltering day near Provincetown.
#2 JJM on 2018-08-31 08:10 (Reply)
This Wellfleet of which you speak is simply too nice a place to let the Yankees continue to be in control there. Cue a War of Southern Aggression to occupy it! :) After all, summers are sweltering down here, and a summer cottage on the Cape would be so very nice.
#3 SCReader on 2018-08-31 10:33 (Reply)
PictureThis is an app that can identify plants and trees from a photo you take on your smartphone.
#4 JM01 on 2018-09-01 10:45 (Reply)

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