BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY MORNING

We actually did get up enough courage to venture out on our own yesterday afternoon. I had spent the morning planting a few of the left over onion sets from the other day and also some dill and weeding. It was a little cool and overcast in the morning, but we just bundled up in sweat shirts and headed out. After I finished planting, I played in the sand box with Aiden ( my new friend). He is Barbara and David's 3 year old grandson. David was keeping an ear open for Conner, their other 18 month old grandson, who was taking a nap. In the meantime, Barbara was mowing the lawn with the new lawn mower and Robert was working on a route to get us from here to Fort Edward, New York - without having to get on the Mass Turnpike. We all had our little "tasks" going in the morning.
After lunch, Robert and I headed out to Staples to check on an inverter; of course, with the trusty GPS. Feeling confident, he plugged in a couple of other stops on the GPS and we were on a roll. We headed back to Barbara and David's to drop off a few things feeling confident and cocky with our new found independence. We picked up the camera and headed out to do a little sight seeing. We decided to head to Nauset Beach, just a short distance from Barbara and David's home. Nauset Beach is part of a 40 mile long section of Coastline between Chatham and Provincetown, Mass. It is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. There are long stretches of sandy beaches and sand dunes. It was an overcast, cool afternoon and everyone on the beach was bundled up trying to keep warm. There was a wedding ceremony along one section of the beach while we were there. We strolled on the beach for awhile and then headed on up US6, which is the main road to and through the national seashore, to the Salt Pond Visitor's Center - part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. We stopped in and picked up some information on the area, watched a short movie and walked out to look at Salt Pond, one of the many "kettles" that were formed by glacial deposits. They use to farm "sea hay" from the marshes with big wooden boats. It was used to feed cattle and the plaque near this boat stated that the residents could taste the salt in the milk that the cows produced. Cape Cod is constantly going through natural changes as the wind and water moves sand along the extensive shoreline. Barbara and David have seen many changes while they have lived here - houses swept away, shorelines eroded, sand dunes disappearing, etc. The four of us hope to take a ride up to Provincetown (about 50 miles away) at the tip of the cape today.