Fall? and hurricane Jose

The remnants of Hurricane Jose were still blowing onto the Cape this weekend. Notice that the waves are coming from the Northeast: a fall 'nor'easter' they are calling it. Most of the weekend we couldn't see across the pond to the other side. It was weird to have so much fog and so much wind! I guess we were really in the clouds most of the weekend.

Here are pictures of Bob and Dave and Kris at Coast Guard Beach. It was very windy and wet, not from active rain, but from being in the clouds and wind. And not very cold at all. Even the water...Notice how white the water is from the breaking of waves. The waves were big and constant. we could see the erosion behind us on the sand dunes. The stairs at Nauset Light Beach were still there, but the sand dune had eroded very close to them, I'm not sure they'll make it through the winter if there are any winter storms.

And the following pictures are on Sunday before we left. It's low tide at Coast Guard Beach, but you can see that the waves are much calmer, the sky is blue and the wind has died down. 

It was a fascinating weekend, weather wise.  

We also met with 2 contractors to find out what it would take to bring town water to the house. We've since received a quote from one - VERY EXPENSIVE - and that's not even hooking up the water inside - that takes another plumber and a separate contract. We will have to re-think this I think...

The Kimballs and we ate lunch at Arnold's (still crowds there on a Saturday afternoon), after we walked around Fort Hill trails and the Coast Guard Beach. During the storm, I checked out some of the (MANY) pictures in those boxes upstairs. Found a lot of the 'kids' when they were little.

We also went through ALL the games - closet, box, and upstairs - and I will donate the duplicates to some charity. Any suggestions?

We moved sand away from the basement wall and took up some of the pavers on Friday morning in the mist and wind. Hopefully that will keep the water from coming into the basement. There was none when we got there, but after the hard rain Thursday night, some had come in by morning. (none down the chimney this time) Bob spent most of Saturday cleaning up the basement closets: going through all the nails, screws, plumbing stuff, electrical stuff, etc etc. Didn't throw much out, I think, just organized it so he can find it 'next time'.