My smugness will be my undoing. For several weeks now, I’ve been bragging about my field peas. Originally I purchased a 50 pound bag which I kept in the freezer. I planted it into flats in my greenhouse in order to have young shoots and tendrils to enhance winter salads. Now I’ve been planting it as a cover crop in my vegetable garden following mid-summer harvests of onions and garlic.

There has been so much bird activity I will write about our trip to Colombia next week!

Don’t blame the goldenrod. The sneezing, itching and irritated eyes and nose are not caused by the fabulous yellow blooms that are shining golden across the landscape. Showy goldenrod may be obvious, but it is not guilty.

The day before the centennial celebration of Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs, Gretchen Tucker Underwood noticed that the landscaping around the 100-year-old red inn on Rose avenue was not quite ready for the impending party.

On Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7:15 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is holding a public hearing on the draft for the Wind Energy Plan for Dukes County. This plan was widely distributed last year and can be downloaded from the commission website, mvcommission.org (search for Wind Energy Plan September 2012).

Over a period of eight months IMP for Kids went into the Edgartown School’s health classes and used improv theatre games, discussions and writing prompts to gather the students’ thoughts about bullying in their school. Writer and director Donna Swift then took the student’s writings and stories and created two scripted shows; one for a middle school audience featuring high school IMP actors, the other for an elementary audience featuring middle school IMP actors.

Bill Manson stopped by the Gazette the other day. He wasn’t wearing a loin cloth, but he was chewing on a slice of marsupial and washing it back with some cricket and earwig tea. That’s just the kind of guy he is.

David Fisher has been weed-free for nearly 15 years.

With eight acres of organic vegetables, Mr. Fisher has developed a system of crop rotation at his Natural Roots Farm and CSA in Conway that has kept weeds to a bare minimum.

On Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Animal Shelter is holding its 2012 Walk for the Animals to raise money for the shelter. The walk begins at the Oak Bluffs School entrance to Tradewinds. Pledge forms are now available at the shelter and veterinary clinics. Walk with or without animals.

The Irish are coming and they are related. On Friday, Oct. 5, the brothers Vallely, Niall and Cillian, are playing a concert at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. Nial plays the concertina and Cillian rocks the uilliann pipes and low whistle. Usually they play in their own bands, Buille and Lunasa, respectively, but for one night only for Vineyard audiences the boys will share the measure of their genes together.