Cold At The Cape

Bill & I visited Old Farm this week before the blizzard hits the East Coast. We walked the beaches, made soup, ran the woodstove and read books after shoveling our way into the house. Lake Wequaquet, the Cape's second largest lake, is four houses away and now frozen solid after weeks of extreme cold. Harvard's Women's Crew team stayed and practiced at Old Farm a while ago.

A good book to read is "From the Vikings to Vonnegat; A Cape Cod Reader", while here.

"Leif Ericson, a natural Viking leader with a touch of wanderlust, heard from a fellow sailor, Bjarni Herjulfsson, of new lands far to the west. Setting sail with thirty-five men in the year 1003, Leif followed the directions of his friend and eventually made several landings on these unknown shores. One landing is reported to have been at Great Point on Nantucket, while another was believed to have been at Bass River on Cape Cod." Frederick J. Pohl