It’s the day after Labor Day, 55 degrees and the Mashpee kids are going back to school.
My neighbor across the street had a blow-out party this past weekend, the same day as the annual Falmouth “Pops Goes the Summer” concert and fireworks.
It was a pretty low-key weekend, with some recovering from the party, and others doing back-to-school prep, yardwork and Fall housecleaning.
Four Seas will be clearing its inventory next weekend, and retailers have marked down their yard furniture as well, so I finally got a table, umbrella and stand for the deck. I planted mums.
Starting this Friday, the Tech Council monthly breakfasts return to their “regular” location in Hyannis. The Wequassett Inn’s jazz festival ended last week and the band concerts in various towns are done for the year, too; all of WBNERR’s summer programs – Tuesdays on the Bluff, the trips to Washburn, the Friday morning walks on South Cape – are finished, the interns and island managers having returned to their studies.
So, even though the local Chambers of Commerce are pushing hard to attract visitors to the “best season on Cape Cod”, everyone knows that we are on the downslide to winter, predicted to be another bad one, as the days get shorter and sunset gets closer to suppertime.