Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast - Brewster By The Sea Inn & Spa

Red Chair Travels

2012-04-06T07:32:00.000-04:00

The Red Chair Travels to Brewster Cape Cod for a two day adventure.

It has been really fun to take the chair to many of our favorite locations in Brewster and then to contemplate that location as if we were the chair. As a photographer, I often get on the ground or look for a high vantage point to get a different sense of the picture before me and this type of engagement with the world was enhanced even more over the past two days while escorting the chair. Who would realize that a chair would give back so much in such a short time, a reminder to all of us that given our busy and hectic lives there are simple lessons for us in all the objects around us.

You will be well rewarded for following this "too" long a post to the very end. I found something psychedelic to finish the post with that should bring a smile to almost every soul. So stay with me on our travels through Brewster.

We have additional photographs in a higher resolution scale at this photobucket site

The Chair's First stop in Brewster was at Brewster By The Sea, residence of the Spoiled Rotten Labradoodle Harrison. The poodle side hates to be told what to do and the lab side wants to please you at any cost, hence the grimace.

Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast Labradoodle

As we go across New England, we see adirondack chairs on many lawns and decks and there is seldom anyone seen in them. The Red chair brings us many lessons about chair design and purpose, for me the major thought is : we need to go back to building things to last. Most of the Adirondack chairs are soft wood with so many joints, crevices, and angles that they do not withstand nature's assault for more than a few years. The picture below is our tribute to the relative permanence of the red chair. Of course, Billy Collins hits the right spot with a contemplation on chairs as well.

The Chairs That No One Sits In

By Billy Collins

You see them on porches and on lawns

down by the lakeside,

usually arranged in pairs implying a couple

who might sit there and look out

at the water or the big shade trees.

The trouble is you never see anyone

sitting in these forlorn chairs

though at one time it must have seemed

a good place to stop and do nothing for a while.

Sometimes there is a little table

between the chairs where no one

is resting a glass or placing a book facedown.

It might be none of my business,

but it might be a good idea one day

for everyone who placed those vacant chairs

on a veranda or a dock to sit down in them

for the sake of remembering

whatever it was they thought deserved

to be viewed from two chairs

side by side with a table in between.

The clouds are high and massive that day.

The woman looks up from her book.

The man takes a sip of his drink.

Then there is nothing but the sound of their looking,

the lapping of lake water, and a call of one bird

then another, cries of joy or warning—

it passes the time to wonder which.

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The most beautiful spot in Brewster and perhaps all of Cape Cod is Paine's Creek and Stony Brook Valley. The first Western visitors to Brewster found a very large Indian settlement in this valley, by some accounts nearly as big as present day Brewster. Fertile and protected with great fishing and hunting. My Flickr account includes dozens of photographs of Paine's creek at various times during the year including sunsets. This time of the year the herring are running and the sea gulls are never happier. We will see the herring later on!!!

In the meantime, traveling back on 6a in Brewster we see flowers everywhere.

One of the most popular spring time celebrations on Cape Cod is the annual Brewster in Bloom festival. Over the years the festival organizers move the date to earlier or later in April with the hope of hitting the season correctly. This years festival was set for late April and the early spring has helped set a positive mood all over town. Our chair loves this field of dreams.

There are theatrical types all over the Cape and Brewster is no different. Tucked way back in the woods is the Cape Rep Theatre. Now playing, "Footlitght Fantasies"

Headed east on 6a and then north on Crosby Lane, to check out the Crosby Mansion and what do I see?

Brewster By The Sea Guests. One good red deserves another good red. Our guests were driving around Brewster checking out sites and they see me with the red Chair at the Crosby Mansion

"Albert spared no expense for the three story, 35-room "summer home" overlooking Cape Cod Bay. Built in the grand style of Chicago's Gold Coast Mansions, the home featured a 60-foot tower with cupola (later destroyed in the 1938 hurricane), 17 fireplaces with imported tile, a French inspired salon, two-story billiard room, marble sinks and floors in the baths and gas lighting. "

The Crosby Landing beach has a beautiful board walk, currently 2 feet under the winter drifted sands, that I take all of our wedding couples to for part of their wedding photography album.

Many of the weddings we have photographed and hosted are here at Crosby Landing.

Coming off the beach, the moon is rising in the east against a beautiful blue sky.

Back to the center of town. The old timers come and sit on the benches at 6 am every morning at the Brewster General Store and it is only later in the morning that they relinquish their seats to this lovely reminder of all that is good about spring. Since 1866 the Brewster General store has had 5 owners (an average of nearly 30 years per owner). When I was a kid still rings true to form in Brewster at the general store and the Red Chair fits in perfect with that notion.

Now we are talking, Having fun with the bunnies of the Brewster General Store..

type rest of post here!! Right behind the Brewster General Store is our second inn, The Captain Freeman Inn
A wonderful 1860's Sea Captain's home that retains nearly all of the orignal architectural and detail. A wrap around porch gives these chairs plenty of shelter and much usage, even in the cooler seasons.

Heaven for a chair is a covered porch.

So I am minding my business and then Aphrodite wanders over.

Now we are headed to the Brewster Grist Mill and upper Stony Brook Valley.

There were herring and no sea gulls. Most unusual.

Our final stop is the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Wing Island, and Cape Cod Bay.
John Wing has been the subject of quite a bit of history research . As you walk out to the bay, through the salt marsh, the thought of how tough our ancestors had it comes first and foremost. We would never think of walking to the island without the boardwalk and yet they would choose to live in the middle of the marsh on an island. There are a man made canals throughout the marsh, evidence of the old saltworks that sustained Brewster for a short time.

We were told that the osprey nest had been largely destroyed by the winter storms this year and they normally would not have to rebuild as much. The Red Chair got to observe both mom and dad bringing choice bits of material back to the perch.

Wing Island, This vista, coming off of Wing Island onto the bay is a really breathtaking overview.

A few years ago a very large rock was rediscovered behind the Brewster Wind Mill in Drummer Boy Park. It reminds me of the fun times as a child I had growing up in Wyoming. We could run off at any time and play on the rocks / cliffs and our parents let us be kids. We fear for our children at every step of the child hood now and I see very few children crawling over this big rock to get that magically unique look at the world around us. Our chair however, has no such fears and I encourage all that read this to bring your children, your grandchildren and even your inner child to Brewster to climb on a Whale of a rock.

New Blog site and a couple of flickr buddies

2010-10-03T18:14:00.001-04:00

I have moved most of the posts form this blog to our new cape cod bed and breakfast blog.

We will be still using this blog for weddings, photography, and some of Byron' side pursuits.

To launch into this, I am pointing out two of the people I have followed on flickr.

David Rockwell is a talented artist in New York with a real day job. His work is really wonderful and and does
several types of media. This link takes you to his sketches on flickr, but I encourage everyone to look at all of his work. This picture is a watercolor of a sketch he did while on Cape Cod.

I know nothing about "primer" , but would love to be able to do this type of work. The black and whites and "mood" pictures, if I could do them, would be totally consuming.

Happy New Year! Let's resolve to make it a good one.

2010-01-01T18:32:00.000-05:00

Bill Vaughan
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
Byron
"A realist gets up on New Year's day grateful for that opportunity, knowing that there is much to do"

The past few years we have worked hard to put meaningful thoughts together for New Year's resolutions. It truly is amazing what level of personal growth this small business has allowed us to reach for. So follow us over the fold for our 2010 New Year's Resolution and visit us at our Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast

And; our wish for you and yours is a safe and fulfilling 2010.

We would love to share our New Year's resolution as it was a major point of discussion at our family dinner on Christmas day. We were blessed this year to have everyone home with a fun new twist since two of our children have moved back with us for the winter, planning to relocate to the east. We could not be more delighted!

Donna,
I always love the end of a meal when everyone is so full and we just sit around the table talking. It's an extra special time for Byron and I since our kids are adults now and it's fun to have life discussions as a family. So this year one of the kids asked about everyones New Year's resolutions. I had been thinking about mine for weeks and was actually surprised at their reaction. For years, mine has always been the same.......to loose weight, get more exercise and to be healthy. I am proud to say that I finally have this one in order since I have been able in the last few years to finally balance my weight and actually have only one size of clothes in our closet. ( that actually was a must since as innkeepers we never have enough storage or private space) This year I wanted to have a new resolution and decided to add a concept that actually I had been aware of and discussing with my husband on a daily basis.....to be cognizant of the power of words in our daily communication. Being a woman of 50+ (and hopefully wiser) I have stopped to think about what I say in my communication with my Mom (who is a stern New England lady and given her health complications this year has been slightly less than cheerful , our guests (the importance of always talking in the positive), our children (they are adults now and it's usually best to just listen then to give advise) and lastly our spouses ( I still do not have that one figured out).

Our children's reaction to my new resolution was precious....they all said whohhh Mom ...."that is deep!. I couldn't quite decide if that was a compliment or they thought the whole thing was silly. As for me it feels right and I have decided to move forward with this idea for the year.

Byron,
As innkeepers, Donna and I continue to lovingly perfect that part of our nature that is gracious, giving, and hospitable. For this opportunity to touch people's lives we are sincerely grateful. My resolution last year was to focus on connecting with the past in meaningful ways, since my career had kept me on the move and I had left so many people and friends behind. I was able to jump onto the social networks such as Facebook, Linked In, and Classmates in order to connect with people from high school, through college and then onto various stages of my career. This was not in any way associated with the inn and inn keeping and that resolution worked out well and will continue. This year's resolution had its genesis in the photography I had been doing the last several years. I realized that my photographs are getting technically better and even once in a while are interesting in that they are not typical and have a uniqueness to them. This year's goal is to start learning how to see the world more through an artists eyes and I have several strategies for doing that; I want to explore and blog on the art galleries on Cape Cod, I want to do black and white photographs that have an expressionistic and / or surreal aspect to them that can tell a different story about Cape Cod,and finally I want to escape the corrosive nature of or current political environment by focusing on the beauty of nature here on Cape Cod. As with last year's resolution, this is meant to be a "forever" project.

April & Nathan
It was precious to move around the table and to hear everyone's resolutions for the year. Our children felt comfortable with setting meaningful thought. Our precious son Nathan who has been through some tough times in life has asked us for help in starting anew and has set a long term goal to acquire a medical degree. His actions, attitude are now congruent with his capabilities and this is exciting. Our daughter, April, just graduated from architectural school in May and left Houston with a contract to design a green environment for the architectural firm she worked for. Her goal is to get a new job in Boston and continue to pursue additional levels of LEED (green architecture) certification. Our comments about and to her are that her future is very green.

Lighthouses of the Cape Cod National Seashore

2009-05-23T15:09:00.011-04:00

Everyone dreaming of Cape Cod thinks of magnificent beaches and picturesque lighthouses. Many of our Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast guests ask about the history and location of the lighthouses that grace the National Seashore and a short history is at this link.

Two recent pictures of the Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse in Truro and the Provincetown Wood End lighthouse are shown at the top of this post.

Cape Cod has had over twenty lighthouses operating along its shores over the past 200 years and today seven still operate and several other decommissioned lights stand along the coastline.

We recently had a darling young German couple stay with us and by the end of their week long stay they had decided that they wanted to get married on Cape Cod and envisioned their elopement in front of a lighthouse.We have many elopements at our Cape Cod bed and breakfast but this was the first request to have the ceremony near a lighthouse. They decided upon the Highland Light in North Truro We planned a picnic lunch complete with chocolate covered strawberries, champagne, french bread, cheeses and fruit. What a wonderful surprise when the custodian of the lighthouse offered the couple an inside peek and the photographer was able to get a great shot of the newly married couple atop the lighthouse.

During the 19th century heydey of lighthouses, keepers were needed to tend the kerosene in the lamps.After the Cape Cod Canal opened in 1914, ships traveling from Europe to Boston were able to bypass the Cape's outer shore. The number of shipwrecks declined dramatically and that coupled with 20 century technology made many light houses obsolete. By 1960s most of the remaining lighthouses were automated and no longer needed keepers.

Today, many of the lighthouses that remain are open during the summer for tourists to see. Each has it's own unique character and is well worth a visit:

Race Point Light House, Provincetown

Wood End Light, Provincetown

Long Point Light, Provincetown

Highland Light, North Truro

Nauset Light, Eastham

Three Sisters Light, Eastham

We love to visit the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham which is a great place to plan your adventures on Cape Cod

Chatham Light

Monomy Point Light, Chatham

Nobska Light, Woods Hole

We love to visit the Salt Pond Visitor Center which is a great place to plan your Cape Cod adventure. Happy exploring!

Visual Thesaurus

2009-05-16T19:37:00.006-04:00

Donna and I really appreciate the diversity of our guests and we are always amazed at how well spoken they are. I still run to the dictionary and sometimes to the thesaurus after a morning conversation.

With Donna in Houston, I started looking at a few words; recalcitrant, curmudgeon, etc. that, in a strange way, might be a reflection of my missing her. At any rate I hope you enjoy using this online thesaurus tool

This should be a great way for kids to learn new words. Imagine this tool expanded so a student could use the words in the nodes in sentences, including verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.

type rest of post here!!

Winter getaway to Wyoming

2009-03-24T19:25:00.015-04:00

This year we were planning an adventuresome getaway to Costa Rica for our winter vacation. After much discussion and family issues, we felt obligated to change our plans and go to Cody Wyoming to visit my mother in-law who was just moved into a long term living facility. We decided to tweak our getaway and stay at a nice hotel.

Since we own a Cape Cod bed and breakfast we were able to do a trade with a lovely boutique hotel in Cody called the Chamberlin Inn. We not only had a fantastic stay but made new friends with the innkeepers, Ev and Susan. They have beautifully restored this property with intricate metal and brick on the exterior and tastefully decorated rooms inside.

We spent most of our time packing up the family home and visiting my mother in law, but on the last day we decided to take most of the day for ourselves and what a special afternoon we had. Upon our innkeepers suggestion we headed up to Shell, Wyoming where a recent archeological find included some dinosaur tracks. The weather was absolutely perfect with full sunshine and temperatures in the 60's. We did some hiking, had a picnic lunch, took some great pictures and had some great laughs on a nearby hill.Our day concluded with a relaxing dinner at Trapper Creek Mountain Lodge.

We drove back to our beautiful room in Cody knowing that this was an absolutely perfect vacation. We not only had a relaxing but busy stay in Cody, but we were able to spend some quality time with my mother-in-law, put a smile on her face each day, made some new friends and have fond memories of our afternoon in Shell, Wyoming.

Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast Internet Marketing

2009-02-21T11:39:00.006-05:00

Charlie Heller just put on a website internet marketing seminar here in Brewster at the Brewster Ladies Library. Although this was suppose to be for people just starting with internet marketing, I always find that it gives me more knowledge and more specifically that it gives me energy and motivation to do a little more for our Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast website marketing.

The biggest thing I learned (relearned) this time was to increase both the number and the quality of our inbound links. I will post code below that I would want people to use in putting a link to us on their Cape Cod Activities page or on their

The bit below is what I would like to offer as our link (with the picture from this blogpost) for links. Contact me for the HTML (use view source on your browser).

Brewster Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast/

Brewster By The Sea is an upscale Cape Cod Inn and Spa with beautiful walks to the beach through the Museum of Natural Histories’ nature trails and to Paine’s Creek Beach. It features an onsite spa, heated pool and outdoor Jacuzzi, elegant breakfasts and luxurious accommodations.

Wyoming on Cape Cod

2009-02-01T14:37:00.005-05:00

Most people visiting our Bed and Breakfast on Cape Cod notice upon their arrival a very distinctive US Flag with 44 stars. The significance of this is a huge surprise to our, mostly Northeastern, Bed and Breakfast guests. Very few know anyone from Wyoming and no one seems to know that Wyoming was first in the US and indeed the world to give women the right to vote. You may wish to check out this link on women's suffrage and Wyoming.

Donna and I are headed to Wyoming for two weeks in March to clean my mom's house out as she is no longer able to live alone. We really look forward to hiking, visiting the cabin in the mountains, seeing the Buffalo Bill Historical center and in particular the Whitney Gallery of Western Art.

The 44 Star Flag : This Flag became the Official United States Flag on July 4th, 1891. A star was added for the admission of
* (44th) Wyoming - July 10, 1890
This was the official flag for 5 years. The Presidents to serve under this flag were Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), and Grover Cleveland (1893-1897).

It is always nice to get a 30 second overview of US and world history whenever I think of my home, the "wyoming territory" and for the 1890's the

United States History: The Gilded Age (1890)
and the brainy history version

It is harder to find the quick world history timeline overview and this is the best I found with just a quick search.

New Year's resolution

2009-01-22T17:56:00.006-05:00

My 2009 New Year's resolution was to become more social with respect to people from my past. As a happy and very social Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast innkeeper, not many would suspect that I have not always been social. My family history, small town upbringing, and personal early antisocial behavior helped define a very introverted character. So, in an effort to effect a continuing transition, I have created a blog for Donna and I to stay in touch with our guests, friends and family, a facebook account to reach out to classmates from Cody wyoming, my university, Northern Arizona University and to the younger crowd that populates these type of social sites. I believe this exercise is really a look forward to a time in 10 years or so when Donna and I will not be innkeepers, but happily retired and looking forward to visiting places and people from our past. Building and enhancing relationships.

TEASER : Below the fold is a quote from Alexander Hamilton. The lesson I take is twofold: we are incredibly simplistic and non creative when describing those we do not like today and the cause of that is likely to be our reliance on technology that enables quick, short, and non thoughtful communication and secondly, a reminder that without this level of skill I am much better off thinking well of everyone!!

Enjoy
Byron

Alexander Hamilton on John Adams

This scrutiny [of some of Adams's writings] enhanced my esteem in the main for his [Adams's] moral qualifications, but lessened my respect for his intellectual endowments. I then adopted an opinion, which all my subsequent experience has confirmed, that he is a man of an imagination sublimated and eccentric; propitious neither to the regular display of sound judgment, nor to steady perseverance in a systematic plan of conduct; and I began to perceive what has been since too manifest, that to this defect are added the unfortunate foibles of a vanity without bounds, and a jealousy capable of discoloring every object.

Do a google search for "Best Insults" and one can easily speculate about the qualities that technology and quick communication have brought us.

Top Hard Rock Songs - Relaxing at Brewster By The Sea

2009-01-06T10:59:00.010-05:00

Happy New year to all and may your lives be blessed with good music. I watched part of VH1's reporting of the Top 100 Hard Rock songs ever and thought I would try to put mine together. What a mine field. Will be very interested in people's comments.

You know things are quiet at Brewster By The Sea and on Cape Cod when I spend valuable time reliving the past. It would be fun to get all of these "top 100's" (pop, rock, hard rock, etc), on video and watch them on a quiet winter day as part of your Bed and Breakfast getaway special

I think the numbering is impossible to do from an individual point of view and derives mostly from the VH1 poll type ranking as well as two other people's rankings. The second person added King Crimson and that surely dates them into the same era as myself and for that, a big thank you. A lot of the songs past 120 are too modern for me and I did not really know.

Cheers, Byron

1	Welcome to the Jungle	Guns N' Roses
2	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin
3	Paranoid	Black Sabbath
4	Enter Sandman	Metallica
5	Aqualung	Jethro Tull
6	Won't Get Fooled Again	The Who
7	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana
8	Walk this Way	Aerosmith
9	Runnin' with the Devil	Van Halen
10	Ace of Spades	Motorhead
11	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses
12	Smoke on the Water	Deep Purple
13	Breaking the Law	Judas Priest
14	La Grange	ZZ Top
15	Photograph	Def Leppard
16	Run to the Hills	Iron Maiden
17	Dr Feelgood	Motley Crue
18	Rock and Roll All Nite	KISS
19	Rock You Like a Hurricane	Scorpions _DELETE
20	Tom Sawyer	Rush
21	Kashmir	Led Zeppelin
22	Crazy Train	Ozzy Osbourne
23	In A Gadda Da Vida	Iron Butterfly
24	Blitzkrieg Bob	Ramones
25	Bad To The Bone	George Thorogood
26	Freebird	Lynyrd Skynyrd
27	Radar Love	Golden Earring
28	Bad Reputation	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
29	21st Century Schizoid man	King Crimson
30	Even Flow	Pearl Jam
31	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	AC/DC
32	Cat Scratch Fever	Ted Nugent
33	Barracuda	Heart
34	School's Out	Alice Cooper
35	Hot for Teacher	Van Halen
36	My Generation	The Who
37	Another Brick in The Wall part 2	Pink Floyd
38	Cum on Feel the Noize	Quiet Riot
39	Should I Stay or Should I Go	The Clash
40	Sunshine of Your Love	Cream
41	Born to Be Wild	Steppenwolf
42	You Got Another Thing Coming	Judas Priest
43	Don't Fear the Reaper	Blue Oyster Cult
44	Alright Now	Free
45	Tush	ZZ Top
46	Mississippi Queen	Mountain
47	Bad to the Bone	George Thoroggod
48	Sultans of Swing	Dire Straits
49	Aqualung	Jethro Tull
50	Shine	Collective Soul
51	Back In Black	AC/DC
52	Nirvana	All Apologies
53	Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers	ZZ Top
54	I Wanna Rock	Twisted Sister
55	Space Trucking	Deep Purple
56	Ballroom Blitz	Sweet
57	Hey Joe	Jimi Hendrix Experience
58	Everlong	Foo Fighters
59	Sunshine of Your Love	Cream
60	Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?	Frank Zappa
61	Basket Case	Green Day
62	Stone Cold Crazy	Queen
63	Talk Dirty to Me	Poison
64	Yankee Rose	David Lee Roth
65	Holy Diver	Dio
66	Bridge of Sighs	Robin Trower
67	Give It Away	Red hot Chili Peppers
68	Her Strut	Bob Segar
69	Peace Sells	Megadeth
70	Working Man	Rush
71	You Really Got Me	The Kinks
72	18 and Life	Skid Row
73	Paradise By The Dashboard Light	Meat Loaf
74	Innuendo	Queen
75	Red	King Crimson
76	Heartbreaker	Pat Benatar
77	Smoking in the Boys Room	Brownsville Station
78	Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll	Blue Oyster Cult
79	Pump It Up	Elvis Costello
80	Rebel Yell	Billy Idol
81	Heaven and Hell	Black Sabbath
82	Who Do You Love?	George Thorogood
83	Are You Gonna go my way	Lenny Kravitz
84	Aces High	Iron Maiden
85	Invincible	Pat Benatar
86	Locomotive Breath	Jethro Tull
87	Sunday Bloody Sunday	U2
88	Police Truck	Dead Kennedys
89	Sympathy for the Devil	Rolling Stones
90	Higher	Creed
91	We're an American Band	Grand Funk Railroad
92	I Can't Drive 55	Sammy Hagar
93	Helter Skelter	The Beatles
94	You Give Love a Bad Name	Bon Jovi
95	Carry On Wayward Son	Kansas
96	Still of the Night	Whitesnake
97	More Than a Feeling	Boston
98	Slow Ride	Foghat
99	Madhouse	Anthrax
100	Bawidabata	Kid Rock
101	Search and Destroy	Iggy Pop and the Stooges
102	Interstate Love Song	Stone Temple Pilots
103	The Stroke	Billy Squier
104	Round and Round	RATT
105	Breaking the Chains	Dokken
106	Hot Blooded	Foreigner
107	Mountain Song	Jane's Addiction
108	Jailbreak	Thin Lizzy
109	Kiss Me Deadly	Lita Ford
110	Any Way You Want It	Journey
111	Slither	Velvet Revolver
112	Bullet With Butterfly Wings	Smashing Pumpkins
113	Carry on My Wayward Son	Kansas
114	Frankenstein	Edgar Winter
115	Freak on a Leash	KoRn
116	Cherry Bomb	The Runaways
117	Epic	Faith No More
118	Cherry Pie	Warrant
119	Liar	Rollin's Band
120	Kick Out the Jams	MC5
121	The Final Countdown	Europe
122	More Human Than Human	White Zombie
123	Cult of Personality	Living Colour
124	Love Removal Machine	The Cult
125	Seven Nation Army	White Stripes
126	Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden
127	Since You've Been Gone	Rainbow
128	Bring Me Back to Life	Evanescence
129	I Wanna Be Somebody	W
130	The Beautiful People	Marilyn Manson
131	Seventeen	Winger
132	Would?	Alice In Chains
133	Party Hard	Andrew W
134	Don't Tell Me You Love Me	Night Ranger
135	Turn Up the Radio	Autograph
136	I Believe In a Thing Called Loved	The Darkness
137	Lit Up	Buckcherry
138	Break on Through	The Doors
139	AXEL RUDI PELL	FOOL FOOL
140	Working Man	Rush
141	Fox on The Run	Sweet
142	Children of The Grave	Black Sabbath
143	Veteran Of The Psychic Wars	Blue Oyster Cult
144	Wynona's Big Brown Beaver	Primus
145	Foreplay/Long Time	Boston
146	Rock and Roll	Led Zeppelin
147	Princess of The Night	Saxon
148	No One Like You	Scorpions
149	Eye of The Tiger	Survivor
150	Stranglehold	Ted Nugent
151	Rock Bottom	UFO
152	Panama	Van Halen
153	Bad Company	Bad Company
154	Holy Diver	Dio
156	Kool Thing	Sonic Youth
157	Problems	Sex Pistols
158	Freak on A Leash	Korn
159	Symphony of Destruction	Megadeth
160	More Than A Feeling	Boston
161	Mr	Guns N' Roses
162	Am I Evil?	Diamond Head
163	Breaking The Silence	Queesnryche
164	Jeremy	Pearl Jam
165	Falling To Pieces	Faith No More
166	Flirtin with Disaster	Molly Hatchet
167	Slow Ride	Foghat
168	Barracuda	Heart
169	The Final Countdown	Europe
170	Overkill	Motorhead
171	Come As You Are	Nirvana
172	Perry Mason	Ozzy Osbourne
173	Cowboys from Hell	Pantera
174	Foolin	Def Leppard
175	Tomorrow	Silverchair
176	Mother	Danzig
177	Holy Diver	Dio
178	Godzilla	Blue Oyster Cult
179	Stillborn	Black Label Society
180	Fast As A Shark	Accept
181	Down with the Sickness	Disturbed
182	Shout At The Devil	Motley Crue
183	Proud Mary	CCR
184	Seek and Destroy	Metallica
186	Wait	White Lion
187	Ziggy Stardust	David Bowie
188	Whatever	Godsmack
189	Here I Go Again	Whitesnake
190	Cherry Pie	Warrant
191	Rock n Roll(Crazy Nights)	Loudness
192	Hot for Teacher	Van Halen
193	Sweet Emotion	Aerosmith
194	Vertigo	U2
195	Tommy the Cat	Primus
196	You Got Another Thing Coming	Judas Priest
197	Detroit Rock City	KISS
198	Kashmir	Led Zeppelin
199	White Wedding	Billy Idol
200	Type	Living Colour
201	Cliffs of Dover	Eric Johnson
202	High Speed Dirt	Megadeth
203	Frankenstein	Edgar Winter
204	Wheels Of Steel	Saxon
205	Eye of the Tiger	Survivor
206	You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet	BTO
207	I Can't Drive 55	Sammy Hagar
208	The Ocean	Led Zeppelin
209	Tom Sawyer	Rush
210	Search and Destroy	Stooges
211	Dead Reckoning	RATT
212	Heavy Metal	Sammy Hagar
213	Amerika	Rammstein
214	Come Out and Play	The Offspring
215	Metal Health	Quiet Riot
216	Living Colour	Cult of Personality
217	The Lumberjack	Jackyl
219	Unconscious Power	Iron Butterfly
220	Future World	Helloween
221	Killing In The Name Of	RATM
222	We Care A Lot	Faith No More
223	Portrait	Kansas
224	Creep	Radiohead
225	Feel Like Makin' Love	Bad Company
226	Into The Void	Black Sabbath
227	Seven Mary Three	Cumbersome
228	Them Bones	Alice In Chains
229	For Those About To Rock	AC/DC
230	Bad Reputation	Thin Lizzy
231	Be Crool to Your Scuel	Twisted Sister
232	Brain Stew	Green Day
233	Avalancha	Heroes Del Silencio
234	Fire	Jimi Hendrix
235	Stone Temple Pilots	Sex Type Thing
236	Mama weer all Crazee Now	Slade

238	Fire Woman	The Cult
239	High N' Dry	Def Leppard
240	Fell on Black days	Soundgarden
241	Jerry Was A Racecar Driver	Primus
242	The Pot	Tool
243	My Own Prison	Creed
244	AIR	Anthrax
245	Slither	Velvet Revolver
246	Black Sunshine	White Zombie
247	Toadies	Possum Kingdom
248	Three Lock Box	Sammy Hagar
249	Last Child	Aerosmith
250	Everything Zen	Bush

Cape Cod Treasure - Museum of Natural History

2008-12-23T10:17:00.005-05:00

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is across the street from our Bed and Breakfast
Most of our guests take the walk to the beach, 15 minutes from our front steps, through the museums nature trails.

There are many activities that visitors to the Cape as well as us "washashores" and natives should take advantage of.

Check out the January and February 2009 Wednesday Walks with Connie Boyce .

Christmas Storm

2008-12-20T08:55:00.004-05:00

Donna and I will be posting pictures of the snow storm today later. Cape Cod is very special weather wise compared to just a little ways on shore. Our snow will last just a short time, the temperature is typically warmer in the winter and much cooler in the summer and yet retains all of the beauty of "real weather". We really love it here.

Here is a picture out the back door (before I have started to shovel) LOL

Harrison's First time to the beach.

2008-03-09T21:23:00.003-04:00

We had to put Honey (part Akita & part Chow) and Blackie (Black lab / Shepard) mix down this past year. They had been with us for 15 years and spent the last 5 in a lifestyle that was light years better than any other part of their lives. In there memory we planted a "weeping dogwood" in the backyard of our Cape Cod Bed and Breakfast.

Donna and I had really thought we would wait until the fall to get another dog, but we just could not wait any longer. Harrison was born on Dec 23, 2007 along with 8 other brothers and sisters to a Chocolate colored standard poodle. The father is also AKC registered and is a large Golden Lab.

The picture you see here really describes his personality well. Initially shy, but always friendly, fairly quiet, but still fun loving. Athletic and ever so photogenic. I will be posting pictures both to the Brewster BY THe Sea Bed and Breakfast flickr account as well as to the bbts website, http://www.brewsterbythesea.com.

Brewster in the news - new picture of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

2008-03-06T12:40:00.005-05:00

Helen Keller and Brewster Cape Cod in the news. From the AP newsroom. The story continues to fascinate and the connection to Brewster which is, IMHO, the nicest town on Cape Cod is wonderful to contemplate.

My brother in Montana used this photo to start a history search of Sea Captain's from Brewster and found a great source of information . He asks which of the Sea Captain's originally built the building which is now Brewster By The Sea Inn and Spa? The answer is Nathan Foster, who married Polly Dillingham. Both of these families have long histories on the Cape. We keep a short history in the rooms of what we have discovered to date. Nathan registered as a sea captain at some point in his life, but the location of the building suggests, at the very least, a not prosperous sea captain. At this time I do not know if he had children or if and how he is related to the foster shown in the cape cod history link above. We can still tease our guests that they are sleeping in a sea captain's house.

A short excerpt from the AP story is below.

1888 Photo Depicts Helen Keller, Teacher

By MELISSA TRUJILLO – 19 hours ago

BOSTON (AP) — Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.

The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.

Experts on Keller's life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which now has the photo.

A day in the life of an innkeeper.

2008-01-24T19:55:00.001-05:00

Our first posting from Brewster By The Sea

Donna and I are a few months into our 5th year as innkeepers on that wonderful spit of land known as Cape Cod. We are still really excited about our vocation, which seems more like an avocation.
We have been ever so grateful for the support of our guests, read the feedback at tripadvisor.com

I enjoy doing websites and here are a sample of the ones that I have done. Sure would like feedback on them.

Cape Cod Elopements and weddings

Brewster Bed and Breakfasts on Cape Cod

and of course our main website

Brewster By The Sea Inn and Spa

So: today
Byron - finish plastering holes in a lathe & Plaster wall caused by putting outlets in. Go to Staples and get W2 forms for our employees. Create the W2 and W3's. Start working on Fed 940 and 941. Install one house with combo CO2 and Smoke Alarms. (still have the other house to do). Get Bed and Breakfasts of Historic Cape Cod Bay website links correct on the webervations page link.
Donna - Took Nanna to her eye doctor, work on final decorating touches for the NEW Belle Suite. Paint Garden Room and Belle Suite floors. Orvis, change sweaters, Home Depot for curtain rods.

Do not know which this blog may go. I do love political discourse, but it can get a little partisan and bloody.