Dogamous takes to the paddle

The first year we decided our beloved rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle was better off with us in the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod rather than a week boarding somewhere in Syracuse, we fibbed to our year-plus pup. We told her a mucky nearby dog park pond was the ocean. The second year…

More cocktail sauce, why didn’t you?

The phone-placed order to the folks at Kream ‘N’ Kone was quite specific. I’m practically a drill seargant about these things. Polite but firm. I want my order to be right after my dear wife Karen and I drive to a place, pick up our food, return, unwrap, and face the plates. Besides, we’ve been…

Hello, Atlantic Ocean

My dear wife Karen and I hoped for a little Serenity Now on the stools of the Tiki Bar, high over the beach of Cape Cod, steps from the Ocean House restaurant and the resort motel it serves. That’s on our Traditions List for this annual pre-tourist-rush week in the Happy Cottage. Alas, on the…

Straight from P-Town

I’ve been mulling this idea about a great T-shirt around in my head since my dear wife Karen and I started visiting Provincetown as part of our annual pre-tourist-invasion June week in Cape Cod. The saying is Straight from P-Town. We love this city on the top of the Cape because it is so inclusive…

Art for art’s sake

My dear wife Karen and I finally walked the cute little block of Dennisport without Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and stuck our head into a few shops. I didn’t expect my whole body to be pulled inside Porter & Mags: Home Furnishings and Design Studio behind Karen the way it was, but … ……

A new bar, friendly folks

My dear wife Karen noticed it right away on our first walk around the cozy town with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. A new bar and grill had opened between our annual visits to the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod. The Red Nun sure looks nice on the outside, she said, noting how we’d remarked…

Let us eat pie

Once upon a time, my dear wife Karen came to Cape Cod without me. She brought her collection of friends for their Girls Getaway to the Happy Cottage, leaving me and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to fend for ourselves back in the Little Bitty, as per another of our summer rituals. They ate freshly…

The street of Chatham

My dear wife Karen and I have been to Cape Cod in the Happy Cottage four years in a row now. Long enough to know what we must do to make the near-summer vacation complete. Drive that 15 or so miles down the road to visit Chatham makes the list. This year, though, we crossed…

Now the Cape Cinema knows how to do art

When I looked up the movie time for Love and Mercy sitting in the living room of the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod Saturday morning, I became a bit concerned when it was not listed in the familiar cineplex down the road where my dear wife Karen and I had watched films my weekly movie…

Things I see only on the Cape

All it took was one walk with my dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to realize that there are things in Cape Cod I don’t get to see in Syracuse. Karen says there’s an azalea and rhododendron among these, and that we have them right in the front garden of the Little…