Last days of the Five and Dime

Sign of the times. My dear wife Karen and I always enjoy a stroll up and down Main Street in Chatham, poking our heads (and bodies) into the shops that happen to catch our interests at the moment. This year, we saw that the Ben Franklin store was saying bye. Deep discounts. My mind went…

Monumental

Looks like … Hey, I commented to my dear wife Karen as we strolled along the beach road in Chatham, there’s the Washington Monument. Ha. She’s accustomed to my sense of humor. Honored. We share curiosity, too, so we walked up to read the tall statue’s inscriptions. Turns out, it honors those lost and those…

Not your usual busker

Play on! Strolling along Main Street of the lovely Cape Cod village of Chatham, I let my dear wife Karen and friends Julie, Aaron and Evan get ahead so I could capture the coolness of the street musician. First time I could recall appreciating the busker talents of a solo cellist. Bravo!

Familiar shirt

My style. My dear wife Karen and I also convinced our Central New York friends Julie, Aaron and Evan to join us for a stroll of the Cape Cod village of Chatham. It was crowded! I was, however, able to spy a familiar shirt in the Smells Like Grapes store. Earlier, I’d mentioned how I…

We mix well with Chatham

See this one out in Santa Barbara, Melinda? My dear wife Karen and I most certainly kept up the Chatham stroll tradition during this year’s Cape Cod vacation adventures. I had to go to my iPhone camera when I spotted a store that carried the name of our great friend Melinda, the big daily colleague…

Great angle

I’m all for somebody else grabbing that brass ring. So when I spotted this never-saw-it-before while my dear wife Karen and I were strolling the shops in Chatham, Mass., I decided it was worth a shout-out. <em>Fire Fishin’</em> is a safe and easy way to roast your marshmallows. I was not in the market, but…

A warm cup and more

This vacation’s drive to Chatham led us to a first stop at Lily’s Diner, a cozy-looking joint on the main drag with an inviting table on the front veranda. The coffee the amiable waitress that I swore to my dear wife Karen came from downstate New York poured into our green Lily’s cups was quite…

Adding to our good time in Cape Cod

When the four of us were perusing the good in a store in Chatham during our Cape Cod Getaway 2021, my eyes struck a truly fantastic item hanging in their buy-something-for-your-wall section. I stared and pictured it making the trip from Massachusetts to Central New York. I must have been in that one spot a…

New discoveries around Chatham

The four adventurers drove along the shore roads of Chatham and pulled up between the lighthouse and a cool-looking beach. First walk for Elisabeth, George Three, my dear wife Karen and I was the alluring beach, big shark warning be damned. The sand felt good on our feet. The wind felt good in our hair.…

The seals of Chatham finally came out to say hello

We told the kids that it would be fun to sea the seals of Chatham, but we’d have to get there early enough for the feeding off the fish pier. We made our schedule, witnessing the early fog. Alas, we forgot that the fishermen would take Memorial Day off. That meant there was not an…