A day at the golf course this weekend will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. The MV BIG Golf Fore Kids Tournament will take place Sunday, Oct. 5 at the Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven.

Eleanore Benedict Hoar loved stormy weather, so it is very fitting that her burial in the Chappy graveyard on the shore of Pocha Pond was accompanied by a blustery nor’easter.

Sad goodbyes for now in our neighborhood with the departures of Jim and Trude Hart, Bill and Jan Stokes, and Paul and Marge Howes who had the temerity to abscond with my favorite cat, Charlie.

Elizabeth Blaydes and James Hannah of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Colt James Hannah, born on Sept. 30 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.

Shorter days and colder temperatures getting you down? Take heart. October also means Beach Plum pizza night.

Chilmark is wet today as I write, the loud sound of rain falling on the roof is surprisingly very pleasant. I am sure the gardeners are rejoicing too.

The legacy Samuel Freeman Pratt (1824-1920) left to Oak Bluffs is inestimable. We know little about his early life (his father was a carpenter) but his midlife was spent as an architect.

I picked the wrong profession. I should have been a meteorologist. They are rarely right and they still get to keep the job. What really annoys me is their disdain for rain.

How about a lunar eclipse? That periodic feat of nature is headed our way next week, and it brings curiosity, beauty and wonder yet again. If they came every night, I would still be fascinated.

Well, we are finally getting some much-needed rain. It was also the best kind of rain so that it soaked into the ground. Now we need to have the ponds full.