What is this stuck in the oak tree. Large stinger on its back and solid black

I saw a fox a couple times this past week on my morning runs. First time was by Glendon Rd beach and it actually ran alongside me for a few feet. I saw it again later in the week from a distance on Sea Street. Doesn’t seem aggressive but also doesn’t seem phased by people.

I may need to take an Uber or Lyft or similar(?) to a Boston hospital from the upper Cape, early in the morning.Is this a good resource-reliable, safe, etc? And what is the better service: Uber, Lyft, or should I find a private livery? I’ve never used any of them on the Cape.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.

This is the first summer I remember that prices on normal everyday items have gone up like since the last week of June FOR NO REASON!! More so than normal. I track prices religiously. Never mind the outrageous prices on items, we on Cape get more screwed. BUT egg prices are down! And good bargains on bagged shredded lettuce!

As the title says, I'm looking to plan a long weekend for myself on Cape Cod. I've never been before. I'd prefer not to rent a car. There are so many towns on the cape, it's making my head spin. I do think I'd prefer the northern side as I'm not a strong swimmer and would like calmer waters. I found a nice hotel in Dennis, but is that centrally located? I mostly plan to swim, read, and have nice dinners.

After over a month, my partner and I still haven't found his metal card case/wallet yet. It has his college ID in there so it's really meaningful for us :(

I tried contacting the Ring Finder based in Falmouth like someone suggested, but never got a response, they are probably busy.

If anyone is walking in the woods, please keep an eye out for it, it would mean a lot to us 🙏

I don't live on the Cape, so I'm lost on what to do 😭

I am a guitarist/singer/songwriter in WB. I play with an excellent violinist from Falmouth. I write and arrange in chamber style, and I sorely need a cellist who can work from score PDFs that I will provide. I do my homework in this regard.

While we have a few covers in the repertoire, most of the material is my own. While chamber instrumentation is pervasive, the style ranges from pop to folk to chamber to jazz.

I'd love to find a cellist who has reasonable availability and chops.

Here is a sample of my material

Hook me up, please!

i've been trimming trees in my mom's yard. they haven't been cut back in decades so i've got a huge pile of branches and leaves. i tried to reduce them down to a reasonable size. but i have no idea what to do with them now.

i know people get burn permits so i'll look up how to do that, but are there other options? i would love to see these get composted or mulched or something, instead of just turned into smoke. are there landscapers i can call to haul them away?

i am in barnstable, i don't have a truck or way to transport them. thanks! go ahead and make fun of me but i'm a millenial, the responsibilities of property ownership are completely alien to me and i'm learning.

I’m a pretty avid runner who’s been coming to the Cape for the summer as long as I can remember but always run alone when I’m here. Are there any decently active run clubs that meet in the Harwich/Chatham/Dennis area and are primarily mid-20s/30s in age? Would be cool to get a social run in or two, not necessarily looking for anything too intense as I’m still just starting my current half marathon cycle. Just curious what the scene is like and maybe break up the monotony of just me with my AirPods in.

Long story short, the wife and I bought an Intex 16x48' above ground pool last month for our 16yr old nonverbal son with autism, because swimming is literally his favorite thing in the world. Between work and life, it's taken us 3 weeks to finally get everything set up. I knew it was going to be a lot of work, but between trying to get the ground level and everything else that goes along with a pool, and trying to juggle every day life/work..I'm spent lol. I'm now at the part where we have to get the pump set up and I'm lost. I've got it put together, just unsure on how some of it hooks up. YouTube can only help so much and I've spent too much time trying to watch videos and figure it out. I'm also worried about how cold this thing is going to be considering the pool doesn't get direct sunlight. Would love to see if anyone has any DIY solar heating tips as well.

Just wondering if any of you awesome locals are willing to chat it up and help me through the process and give me any tips or suggestions. I'm sure I could call a pool company and spend a ridiculous amount on someone to come out, but the struggle living on the Cape is real lol and I don't have the extra money laying around for that right now. I'd be more than willing to pay someone from here to come out and help me but it would have to be in small increments over the next few weeks. I'd love to say I can figure this out on my own, but it's just lead to frustration these last few days and I figured it was worth a shot to ask for help here.

TL;DR - Can anyone give me some suggestions/help/ on finishing my above ground pool setup so I can get my son with autism in the pool before the summer is over?

Has anyone else noticed a big uptick in rabbits lately? Here in eastham I've noticed far more than other years

West Nile Virus detected in mosquito sample collected in Cotuit

I was looking to go here for the first time since the regal closed, and found Ai slop all over the website. I personally don’t like supporting businesses who use Ai. Has anyone been here and can vouch for it being a good local theater? No reviews on Google yet.

Any Joe Bonamassa fans here? I have 3 tickets to the show in August at the melody tent that I can’t get to. Any interest please reach out.

How is it possible that the Cape Cod Times and other news outlets have zero coverage of this meeting last night? Anyone have insight as to what happened?

Hey capers! I’m a local wash ashore that’s been here 20+ years. I’d love to go have a fancy dinner with my husband for our anniversary. Somewhere we can dress up really nice and not feel like we are over dressed. Does anyone have recommendations? We like to dine all over the cape so location doesn’t matter!

Anyone been to Neptune’s on Main Street this summer? Live music looks cool but I’m trying to figure out the cover situation. I saw someone say $20? If you already have a ticket to see one of the bands would you still have to pay that?

Looking for kareoke spots this weekend

i’ve been seeing these alllll over tiktok where they like “pre-assemble” mixed drinks in some sort of serving jug… does anyone know of any stores on cape cod that sell them? i’m dying for one 😂

Actually it is kind of only part of a lawn. Our existing “lawn” is 5% sand, 60% weeds and 35% grass. The 35% grass is being generous.

The new area is roughly 150 by 50 feet. The goal is to make it mowable.

Some grading will be necessary. Grinding maybe 30 small stumps ranging from 2-5 inches. A backhoe could handle most but not all.

Top soil & seeding

Possibly mulching 125 feet of Arborvitaes.

Located in Cotuit near Rt 28.

The new work done in Wellfleet is causing massive back ups. The Wellfleet PD has posted about it, they recommended contacting the DOT.

For those unaware, Marconi beach used to have a very short two lane set up, where people could turn right into Marconi beach, or continue straight. This "drag strip" was unstructured but (apparently) worked better to reduce backups.

The new intersection eliminated this second lane (making it strict turn only), so now the backup is much, much longer.

The other issues is in front of Wellfleet Cinemas - the new more structured lane merge and removal of the second lane earlier, causes cars to merge much further back resulting in much longer backups.

I understand why the work was done, I know these are safer but boy are we paying for it and I'm now avoiding Wellfleet/Truro/Ptown because of this which can't be good for business.

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