Despite the humidity of recent days, this has been a relatively hot and dry summer. A. Look at the Vineyard Skies column in this week’s Gazette with the record of our past week’s precipitation shows seven days of goose eggs. The advantage is that it's been nigh perfect weather for our vacationing friends  —every day a sunny beach day, every evening a milder delight.

Our hopes are modest: a thoroughly soaking rain for three hours between midnight and dawn three or four nights a week would do very nicely, thank you. A little less humidity during the day. And let's keep the pleasant evenings, please. That's not much to ask, is it?