There are no adoptions to report this week, but it does look like Ernie has found a home for the holidays and forever.

Beechwood Properties LLC purchased 2 Beechwood Way in Aquinnah from Timothy J. Kane Trs. and David J. Kane Revocable Trust for $975,000 on Dec. 6.

Don't rain on my parade!

I saw a few snowflakes on Saturday and even though there was no accumulation, it finally felt like December.

Rather than continuing my start-stop failed attempts at poetic prose, I will just write from the heart and not worry about how the words flow.

Santa Claus arrived Friday evening via the Chappy Ferry to the delight of youngsters of all ages gathered on Memorial Wharf.

The Old Variety Store building in downtown Oak Bluffs adjacent to the Flying Horses Carousel is slated for teardown, after the town issued a demolition permit last month and the select board approved a sidewalk closure at the site Tuesday.

Once again, I was ready to complain about the raw, chilly weekend weather when I switched on the Weather Channel.

It is a prickly subject for ilex-ologists.

I read that my neighbor on this page — Lynne Irons of The Vineyard Gardener — has observed all the fish crows that hang out around the Five Corners area.