CapeCodOnline.com – Cape health officials are seeing increases in tick-borne disease this summer — and it’s not just Lyme disease anymore.

Cases of newly emerging illnesses anaplasmosis and babesiosis continue to rise, while a recently discovered disease also transmitted by the bite of a deer tick — miyamotoi — has been detected in more than a dozen Cape Codders.

Dr. Laurel Miller, medical director of infectious disease services for Cape Cod Healthcare, said a Norwood laboratory that has developed a test for miyamotoi has diagnosed 13 to 14 people from the Cape with the tick-borne illness this summer.

“We’re starting to see miyamotoi. It’s not huge numbers,” Miller said. The disease was first documented in U.S. residents in early 2013.

Oh great, we’ve got beaches closing because of Great Whites, people are getting murdered in the streets and now we have brand new diseases coming out of the woods. Is there anywhere safe on Cape Cod anymore?

I don’t know about you but I’m getting on Zillow right now, it’s time to move somewhere safer, maybe Roxbury or something.

P.S. I’m 78% sure I ordered the Miyamotoi at a Thai food place the other night.

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So last Sunday I was watching the road race and I started twitching. I couldn’t figure out what the problem was, and then I remembered. It was my body telling me that it was time for a cucumber Bloody Mary with two strips of bacon and a tornado potato and cheese skewer. So now it’s been almost a full two weeks since the nectar of the gods has entered my system and can feel myself weakening. I’m pretty sure there is only on thing that can cure what ails me. That’s right, tomorrow I am all in at Liam Maguire’s. It is going to be The Great esCape all the way…

As usual, you can build them exactly to your taste with about a bazillion different options while you listen to some chill acoustic music from The Silent Trees from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. this Sunday at Liam’s on Main St. in Falmouth. It really has turned into THE spot to be to start your Sunday Funday. The crowd is always in a great mood and there’s no better way to get the cobwebs out of your head, especially after all the weekend festivities you are sure to partake in.

No worries if you don’t like Bloody’s, there’s plenty of other great stuff to choose from and the brunch menu is deee-lish! I’ve had everything on it at this point and there is no bad choice. Here’s the menus…

Sunday Brunch

Breakfast Burrito

Scrambled eggs, bacon, cheese, and two hash browns with an avocado chipotle aioli.

Irish Breakfast

Two eggs cooked to order, two rashers, two bangers, black and white pudding, home fries, and a fried tomato. Served with brown bread.

Crab cakes Eggs Benedict

Two English muffins topped with jumbo crab cakes, Irish bacon, poached eggs and our own homemade hollandaisesauce. Served with home fries.

French Toast

Three slices of thick cut Sourdough bread dipped in our own cinnamon French toast batter. Served with a side fresh fruit.

Chicken & Waffles

Habanero Guinness waffles with two fried chicken breasts, smothered in Southern style white gravy, made with our own bangers. Served with REAL New England Maple syrup and pickled vegetables.

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Boston.com – Fun fact: The mayor of Boston is required by law to notify the City Council whenever he leaves the city. He’s also required to say when he’s coming back.

Marty Walsh forgot about this before heading out to Cape Cod earlier this week, according to The Boston Globe, but the issue was resolved on Friday when a member of his staff filed an official letter with the clerk’s office.

Press secretary Kate Norton told The Globe that Walsh will spend two weeks on the Cape. He’ll travel to and from Boston intermittently during that time.

Marty Walsh needs permission to travel to Cape Cod? What is he going to get grounded or something? Is he on house arrest? It doesn’t seem to make much sense, it’s not like he’s leaving the country.

Anyway, Marty is like the anti-fun police mayor. He has fought for bars in Boston to be open until 4 a.m. and the T runs much later now because of him, which fixed one of the more ridiculous problems in Boston. I like to call him Mayor Marty “The Party” Walsh.

So on behalf of all of Cape Cod, I’d just like to say that you are welcome here anytime Mr. Mayor. Maybe you could visit some of our local politicians and teach them a thing or two about making rational decisions that make people actually want to live in and visit your district.

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CCT – On this day in 1923, it was colder than on any August day in memory. The Cape Cod Cranberry Company reported that the temperature the previous night was 27 degrees.  The story in the newspapers the next day are below:

Yesterday was the coldest August 23 on record in many parts of the country. The lowest temperature recorded here was 53, the same as Wednesday’s minimum. Thermometers at Poughkeepsie registered as low as 36 degrees yesterday morning and a light frost was seen, which observers said was the first August frost in eighteen years…

I would puke on myself if I woke up this morning and it was 27 degrees out with frost on the ground. As if it’s not depressing enough that it’s already Labor Day weekend, at least it’s sunny in the 70’s. Anybody with a brain knows that fall is the best time of year on Cape Cod, and if Mother Nature were to take that away from us this year, especially after the winter we had last year? Well, I would probably punch her in the tit.

So cheer up all you doomsday, summer is over pessimists. Things could be much worse, we could be in 1923. It’s going to be a beautiful holiday weekend, sunny with a 100% chance of tons of beer!

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CapeCodOnline.com – Although Hersey at first claimed not to have been drinking, she later told police she had a glass of wine and then said she also had a Long Island Iced Tea, according to the police report.

She then added to that list, according to the report.

“I had a little beer. And a shot. When I stopped at the packie to get beer, what the hell, I’ll get Fireball too,” she told police, according to the report. Police found a six-pack of beer in the car, including an open container, according to the report.

Hersey was charged with operating under the influence of liquor, second offense; possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle; child endangerment while operating a motor vehicle; not securing a child within the ages of 6 to 12 with a seat belt; and a marked lanes violation.

Holy shit sweetheart, talk about loose lips sinking ships! It’s not very smart to tell police the entire laundry list of booze you’ve been drinking after you get pulled over. You came out of the gates fine with old “Oh I just a glass of wine” trick, but you have to end it there. It’s like this lady is Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar! or something. Don’t tell them about the Long Island Iced Tea, that is legitimately the strongest cocktail known to man. That’s like if a parent asked their teenager if they’ve been smoking weed and the kid was like “Oh, not really, just had a little heroin with lunch”.

Then all of a sudden this chick turns into a frat boy bragging to his friends about how much he drank the night before. “Some beer, shots, oh and what the hell, Fireball too”? Jesus Christ lady you just admitted to drinking wine, cocktails, beer, shots, AND Fireball? You could have saved us all some time. When the cop asked you what you had to drink, you should have just answered… “EVERYTHING”!

P.S. The little kid in the car with no seat belt on is a nice touch as well. We are definitely working with a brain surgeon here.

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We just added a new design from Connor in our Shop. They have a pretty simple concept;

High Tide = Full Beer. Low Tide = Empty Beer. We kept it nice and subtle with our logo as the beer label.

Doesn’t get much more Real Cape than that, the Real Capers know that low tide stinks! Available in Men’s and Women’s Premium T’s in an assortment of colors. CLICK HERE to order.

 

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CapeCodOnline.com – Town leaders hope to meet with state highway officials about Route 6, following a fatality on Tuesday and an hourslong traffic jam on Saturday after a three-car crash.

The death of Wende Harrison, 54, of Eastham, at Kerouach Road, after her minivan taxi crossed the center line and crashed into two vehicles, is the first fatality on Route 6 this year, Police Chief Ron Fisette said.

But there have been 48 vehicle crashes on the road this year, and there were two fatalities in August 2013, one when a driver veered across the center lane near the Truro town line and the other when a teen bicyclist was hit while crossing the highway.

There have been seven fatalities, including the bicyclist, on Route 6 in Wellfleet from 2007 until Tuesday, Fisette said.

The neighboring town of Eastham has had four fatalities along the road during the same time period, an Eastham police official said Wednesday. Truro has had two, based on reports in the Times archives.

“In my mind, business as usual can’t continue,” said Rep. Sarah Peake, D-Provincetown. After learning about Harrison’s death on Tuesday, Peake sent an email to Wellfleet Town Administrator Harry Terkanian asking if town leaders would be interested in a meeting with state officials and others who have control over the highway or might have input on its weaknesses.

There have been fatalities in Wellfleet both this August and last, Peake noted.

So, State Reps and Town Leaders are finally realizing how ridiculously dangerous Route 6 is? Maybe someone has been reading The Real Cape, seeing as we brought this issue up about 4 months ago. On April 24th I wrote a blog called: “Is Route 6 The Most Dangerous Road In The Universe?“.

Here is an excerpt:

The following shows the results of an internet wide, news filtered (very high tech) search of “route 6 Cape Cod”…

 

Look at those results, Google doesn’t lie folks.

All kidding aside, there really seems to be a major accident and shutdown on Route 6 every single day. Maybe it’s because Cape Cod has a disproportionate number of old people. Maybe people on Cape Cod are always in a rush. Maybe the road is cursed.

Is The Real Cape changing the world? Less than a month ago we won The Nobel Prize, and now we are just blazing trails for State Reps and town leaders to walk through 4 months later. It’s too bad they decided against a Mayor of Cape Cod because I think it’s pretty obvious who the front runner would be. Oh well, I guess for now we’ll just have to keep being right about everything and giving the silent majority a voice. Hopefully the powers that be will catch up with us on a few other issues soon.

P.S. Yes I know you’ve all been thinking this about Route 6 for years as well, that’s the point. The silent majority needs to take back The Cape.

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