1) Yesterday, after an uneventful ferry ride home, I was surprised to see a welcoming committee assembled on the neighbor’s picnic table as I walked by with my suitcase: a quartet of turkeys! Quite different from the pair of rabbits seen the night before in the garden of Casa Gizmo.
1a) Thank goodness I wasn’t wearing Nile green.
2) Yesterday, for the first time, I had to take a rapid antigen test at home (at the request of next weekend’s hosts, which I was happy to do). To spare any suspense, the result was negative, so I am cleared to go. In my naivete, I just expected to take the test and get the result. But no, the only tests available at the pharmacy I went to involved downloading an app, allowing notifications, and enabling Bluetooth. Insert the Usual Get Off My Lawn Whargarbbbbl Here. As soon as I got my negative test result I deleted the damn thing and rechecked phone settings in every possible place. In the future I’ll be looking out for the BinaxNOW text from Abbott, which doesn’t involve downloading anything.
3) Well, enough of that. Summarizing last week in Provincetown, it included three really nice beach days, one sick day (Thursday, after too much sun), The Splendid and the Vile, a surprise breakfast with two friends at a new-to-Provincetown French bakery, three good dinners out (Pepe’s Wharf a seul, The Patio with the Housemate, and Victor’s with Dartin), one middling dinner (Pilgrim House with Dartin), and an introduction to Below Deck Mediterranean that makes me want to see just how Lexi got fired.
Taken by Dan for National Dog Day.
3a) And also Gizmo. I have discovered that I can drive him into a state of frantic delight by climbing the stairs as sloooowly as possible while he waits at the top to greet me. Bwaaahahahahahaha.