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A Vacation Diary: Day Five
(originally published on July 26, 2013)
Day Five:
- waking up to much, much cooler temperatures and actually looking forward to an indoor day
- wearing an only-at-the-beach outfit: pale grey light sweater and white yoga pants with flip flops
- taking the super long lead to the beach for Tipper to run as much as she wanted
- picking up all the plastic trash from the beach and depositing it in the recycling bin
- finding a tiny skeleton of a snake? an eel? at the beach
- comfort food on a chilly (!) day
- a snuggly puppy looking for warmth
- a long nap nestled in the magical "sleeping chair"
- ... followed by a bowl of ice cream
- reading, reading, reading
- watching our neighbor tend his dahlias dressed in a sweatshirt and Hawaiian lei
- realizing at the end of the day that you did little more than stare into space and wishing there were more days like that
And this:
"Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy."
--Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
This Month ...
- celebrate the opening of The Red Inn for the season
- wear my new facinator to Harbor Lounge's annual Derby Party
- hike with a Massachusetts Audubon guide through the backwoods of Truro and Wellfleet
- listen to Monica Lewinsky and Ari Melber discuss stuff in the Hawthorne Barn
- experience several artist open houses at Twenty Summers
- get our annual townie passes for Tea Dance
- have our first meal of the season at Moby Dick's and Terra Luna and the Nor'East Beer Garden and Front Street and Mistralino and The Mayflower and ...
- take the moms out to brunch at a new to us place up Cape
- plant everything in our garden and on the deck (HOORAY!)
- figure out how to watch Eurovision this year (since Logo is not airing it!)
- enjoy all the free food at the annual JD's/Saki opening party (our favorite!)
- check out some of the events during Ptown Fashion Week
- pray for a cancellation for JURY DUTY
- explore Falmouth and finally try that lobster ice cream
- collect boxes of stuff to donate for the town's Monumental Yard Sale
- start buying fresh produce at the Wellfleet Farmers Market and filling my glass bottles at the Green Road Refill bus
- see some films in the Jamaican Film Festival
- enjoy our annual Lunch with Ezra at The Canteen (and the start of Boston friends visiting Ptown)
- buy some tubers at the Dahlia Sale
- do a night climb at Highland Light
- get up in the middle of the night to buy all the things in Target's Vineyard Vines collection
- bite my nails while watching the Game of Thones finale
- go to the Rhododendron Festival in Sandwich
- shiver through our first day at the POOL
- view the LASER RAINBOW that will be back again for Pride Weekend