This contemporary-style home blends wood, glass and cathedral ceilings for a serene living space tucked off Lambert's Cove Road in West Tisbury, perfect for a writer or author seeking natural inspiration. The home features two separate living areas, one older and one newer, each with a kitchen and dining area, living area, and a fireplace

Because I work outside all week, there’s nothing like a rainy Sunday to put things in order for me. I’m sorry for you folks who count on sunny weekends. I like to wash and prepare produce for the week. This past weekend, I made some refrigerator pickles, cooked and sliced beets to add to salads and peeled and chopped garlic. If the food is at the ready my evenings are much smoother. I’ve often joked that I spend all day making tomato sauce from scratch but send out for pizza in sheer exhaustion.

The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has a very special dog named Popi. He is a beautiful, big black greyhound who was given up for adoption because his owner became ill and could not care for him. Poor Popi has not adjusted to living in a kennel and has developed all kinds of medical and anxiety problems. He desperately needs an angel who would be willing to give this sweet, loving dog a home. The shelter also has also established a Popi Fund for some badly-needed dental work.

It’s Derby time and all across the Island, anglers will be spinning fish tales. Some will have only stories, while others with more skill (or perhaps greater luck) will be down at the weigh station. All eyes at Derby time are on the scales, the ones used for official weighing, of course, but also the ones that adorn the fish themselves.

There were winning golfers — four, to be exact. But the real winners at the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club fall golf tournament, held Sept. 8 at the Edgartown Golf Club, were the children and families of the Vineyard.

The annual golf tournament, now in its 28th year, raised just over $9,000 to support the Boys and Girls Club’s affordable youth programs, most notably the club’s after-school program, which is open to all Island youth in grades K-6 for an annual membership fee of just $20.

I missed Angela Davis’s description last month of life on
Palestine’s West Bank when she was there on behalf of Jewish Voice for Peace. I did, however, read last week’s letters about her talk and Alan M. Dershowitz’s attack of her view of the inhumanity to West Bank residents. I add to the discussion now only because, just six months ago, I, too, was a visitor there.
I went there from Israel.

Can’t get there from here. Bert and I said it first,
but Chappaquiddick truly took the sentiment to heart. Giving (or receiving) directions on Chappy is nothing if not impossible. Sisyphus himself would have said “aw, screw it” after the third run-through of the same direction to the same person.

There are markers on Chappy, real landmarks that denote location, which are fine if the location that you’re describing is within 10 yards of that landmark. Any further and you must rely on the ever-changing mailbox or disappearing street post.

Tomorrow is the full moon, called the Harvest Moon. The moon rises in the east at about the same time as the sun sets in the west. The brilliant moon is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces.
The Harvest Moon is the nearest full moon to the first day of autumn, which was last Saturday.
The moon will look large as it rises in the east, and it will appear to be close. Full moons on the horizon always look closer and bigger. But as the moon climbs higher in the sky it seems to shrink.
The moon actually will be closest to the earth next Friday, when it is in perigee. The moon on that date will be 251,000 miles away. Tides will run slightly higher and lower than usual, due to both the closeness of the moon and the fact that the moon is just past full.
The gravitational pull of both the moon and the sun play a big part in the tides. The relationship between the earth to the moon and sun are also involved. When the moon is closesTomorrow is the full moon, called the Harvest Moon. The moon rises in the east at about the same time as the sun sets in the west. The brilliant moon is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces.
The Harvest Moon is the nearest full moon to the first day of autumn, which was last Saturday.
The moon will look large as it rises in the east, and it will appear to be close. Full moons on the horizon always look closer and bigger. But as the moon climbs higher in the sky it seems to shrink.
The moon actually will be closest to the earth next Friday, when it is in perigee. The moon on that date will be 251,000 miles away. Tides will run slightly higher and lower than usual, due to both the closeness of the moon and the fact that the moon is just past full.
The gravitational pull of both the moon and the sun play a big part in the tides. The relationship between the earth to the moon and sun are also involved. When the moon is closest to the earth, our oceans feel an extra tug.
The extreme tides next week will likely be something for fishermen to talk about.t to the earth, our oceans feel an extra tug.
The extreme tides next week will likely be something for fishermen to talk about.

The new West Tisbury police station is in final design stages but needs additional funding to complete construction and bid documents, the town selectmen learned this week.
At their meeting Wednesday, the selectmen approved placing an $80,000 warrant article for the November special town meeting to fund the last phase of construction documents, prepare the project for request for proposals and complete the bidding process. Voters will be asked at the annual town meeting in April to pay for the project, planned to be built at the public safety building.

Last Friday, pressed for time, I
took the evening Cape Air flight to Boston, having enjoyed a few days alone after settling my daughters at their colleges on opposite coasts. Summer was over and I was of course sad to be leaving the Vineyard and already missing the people I didn’t have time to see and things I didn’t have time to do, feeling a bit beleaguered by all the “letting go” thrust upon me in one week.
The airport was so still and quiet I thought I had the time wrong, but the attendant said there were only two passengers.