I worked in the pouring rain last Saturday. Couldn’t have been happier. I transplanted all the baby collards, kales, spigarellos and lettuces into the hoop house. Hopefully, there will be salad makings for most of the winter.

I also moved some tiny Walla Walla onions. I started them in the ground about three weeks ago. They are a “winter” onion, obviously from the Pacific Northwest.

That climate is much milder than ours here on the Vineyard, hence the need to grow them under plastic. They take over 300 days to reach maturity so in my perfect world I will be enjoying large, sweet onions sometime next summer.

My son Reuben has been pestering me to pickle some eggs. I must admit I’ve been a bit reluctant. All I can think about are the ones pickled in beet juice that sat on the bar at the Ritz Cafe back in the day. Now, granted, that was in my drinking days so any sort of opinion about pink pickled eggs was suspect at best.

I gave it a go anyway. I used the same recipe from dilly beans — 3 cups water, 1 cup apple cider vinegar, 2 tablespoons salt, garlic and dill. I popped a dozen peeled hard boiled eggs into the solution for several days in the refrigerator. I admit they were pretty darned tasty. I think they would make an awesome egg salad!

I have tons of radishes just ready for picking. I chopped several very small and dressed them with Chris Kohanes’s toasted sesame dressing. They made a wonderful wrap for lunch.

The dressing is Chilmark’s original. It is in the produce aisle at Cronig’s. I noticed on the bottle that recipes can be found at chilmarkfoods.com.

I had a bag of onion sets break in my truck in the spring and never bothered picking them up. I scooped a handful from under the seat in September and for fun planted them. They are perfect scallions right now. It goes to show, seeds have the potential of life locked up inside and if given even half a chance they will do their best to provide offspring.

There is a big puddle next to the Norton farm stand as a result of Saturday’s excellent rain. It was filled with Canada geese. That’s right, they are not Canadian (although they could be). It is awkward to say Canada geese after years of hearing it the other way. Oh, this reminds me of a palindrome — love them! Violet and I say them often. DO GEESE SEE GOD. Or our newest favorite — GO HANG A SALAMI I’M A LASAGNA HOG.

First Baptist in Vineyard Haven is having Octoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 18, from noon to 3 p.m. All sorts of fall activities and foods will be available.

The news is all Ebola all the time. I’m just not that freaked out about it. What I really hate is that poor people have to suffer the most. If the people in West Africa had access to decent health care, we could have had a handle on this epidemic much sooner.

I have undying admiration for those selfless individuals who go into hot zones to offer treatment and comfort. I confess I’m not that altruistic. I wish I were but there’s the rub. I’m content to stay home and voice my opinions. Thanks for bearing with me!

Speaking of my opinions, wasn’t it the Republicans in Congress who cut millions of dollars from the CDC? They have been hell-bent to cut government spending for decades except, of course, for war.

Then there’s Texas. They have refused to take federal money for Medicaid supplements to create a stalemate against Obamacare. Now, everyone is mad that Obama isn’t doing more to stop Ebola. The guy can’t win.