It’s that time of year when keen gardeners, which I am not, have far too much zucchini on hand.

I did not know this but apparently August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. As I stared at some fantastic zucchini lovingly grown by Meg Higgins, wondering what my non-garden-y and non-cook-y hands were going to do with it, Katy Kurth offered some easy advice.

Katy and her kids Latham and Gryphon shred it, package it in portioned containers and freeze it. Throughout the winter they use it to make zucchini bread that tastes just as fresh as it would had it been baked in August with just out of the garden fruit from the squash family. You could even toss some chocolate chips into the batter to really liven things up.

Gardens are really beginning to burst. It comes as a great surprise that I, myself, have harvested a couple of cucumbers and sungold tomatoes. Be impressed. This is a tremendous accomplishment and I respectfully give 75 per cent of the credit to Lydia Fischer, from whom I got my plants as eight-inch little tykes many weeks ago.

I look forward to wandering the Agricultural Fair hall next week to see the bounty my friends and neighbors have managed to mature in their gardens over the past couple of months. The show in the hall is always bright, colorful and perfectly proportioned. Good luck to all of you who, with eager anticipation, will be showing at the 161st.

Jonathan Neumann was in town from Portland, Ore. to spend some time with his mom Jane Neumann and her companion Bob Schmalz. We had a fun little catch-up chat. If I heard correctly, Christina was here as well, but my eyes didn’t lay on her.

Sculptor Jay Lagemann will host an open studio at 18 Wequobsque Road from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, August 12. The family compound, where many of Jay’s creations rest in his Wild Island Sculpture Garden, offers a step back in time to where you can sit quietly with a glass of lemonade and take it all in.

Years ago, when Jay’s mom Betsy was still alive, I’d stop by frequently to drop sundries off on my way home from work. She was partial to strawberry-flavored chewy candy commonly known as Twizzlers. These were not to be confused with Red Vines which, of course, taste totally different.

Adam Goldman, along with his kids Addison and Chase, is in town, having traveled from their home in Florida. Quality time with Adam’s dad Andy and Susan Heilbron has been a priority for this visit, along with fishing, squidding and plenty of other activities Chilmark has to offer. Addison doesn’t seem hampered by the cast she is currently sporting on her arm and that’s a good thing.

Although I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Alex Sarason a couple of times this summer, it took until a few days ago for me to have a little catch up with Christian. Along with their boy-men Nicholas and Benjamin, they traveled from Seattle, Wash. to both work and frolic with the extended Parker-Keene clan.

I also had an opportunity to lay my eyes on Christian’s sisters Lisa, Suzy and Katy, who all swooped in for quality family bonding and for Meet the Fleet, presented on the Menemsha harbor by brother John Keene and the MV Fishermen’s Preservation Trust. As an aside, a big thanks to Captain Mike Olivera from F/V Menemsha Rose for putting some really cool starfish in the Texaco touch tank for both kids and adults to enjoy.

For all you fisher folks, if you haven’t heard, the bonito have made their way into our waters. Every year anglers wait with anticipation to cast out and hook up on this fantastic light tackle tuna-family fish. Chatter on the marine radio, jetty, iMessage, internet and classic landline telephone was all abuzz as the news of the highly-anticipated sarda sarda making their way to the western end of Vineyard waters.

Congratulations to Annette Cingle, who just might have been the first out of Menemsha to reel in one of these beauties.