I got caught. There was no way to refute the evidence.

It was all in a blood test.

I have high cholesterol, and my doctor was the first to know it.

But the evidence wasn’t just in the writing. There were the cookie crumbs on my kitchen floor. There was a large jar of mayonnaise in my refrigerator. Next to it was some creamy salad dressing.

And there were smudges of dried food in my Betty Crocker Cookbook on pages describing how to make tasty beef gravy.

Chilmark police are investigating a series of thefts from several fishing boats earlier this month in which oyster drags were stolen from vessels anchored at Tisbury Great Pond.

Police were alerted to the thefts on March 4 after three Chilmark fishermen called to report that fishing equipment had been stolen from their boats. Officer Jeff Day responded to the Menemsha Texaco station, where he met with John Larsen, Stephen Larsen and John Armstrong.

JUNE MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

When I went across to town early on Sunday morning, there was barely enough water in the Chappaquiddick slip to float the ferry. Captain Bob attributed the low tide to a combination of the new moon and the high pressure of that bright sunny day. I didn’t know this, but high pressure tends to depress the water, while the low pressure, say, of a storm causes the tide to rise higher, in conjunction with the wind direction.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kcase1@verizon.net)

Our weather is so typical for this time of year. We get a warm day and think this is it, we might be over the worst. Then the next day it snows. However, if it wasn’t this way, what would we have to talk about?

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Kya Maloney who celebrated on March 8, Phillip Jordan and Ava Thors who celebrated on March 11, Caroline Gazaille on March 13, and to Brenda DeOliveira who celebrates her day on March 15.

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

My friend alerted me — that was the only reason I watched the worst television show I have ever had the misery to sit through in my life. She knows I don’t like reality shows. I think they’re bogus, vapid and narcissistic. I wasn’t wrong.

HOLLY NADLER

508-693-3880

(sunporch@vineyard.net)

Back from California, babe. Lunch with Nicholson, cocktails with Spielberg. Oops, I just channeled someone else’s L.A. vacation.

One thing we Vineyarders can depend on when we plunge into the real world for a week or two or more: we run up against the latest technologies that leave us whistling, “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.”

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

Martha Stewart Living radio will feature Elizabeth Germain today discussing Community Supported Agriculture. The broadcast is Friday, March 14, from 2:30 to 3 p.m. on Sirius Satellite radio, the Living Today Show. Tune in to learn about the history of CSA programs, the benefits of being a shareholder, and the similarities and differences between projects around our country.

Ms. Germain will discuss her experiences in founding the CSA at Stearns Farm in Framingham as well as her experiences as a shareholder of the Whippoorwill Farm CSA here on Martha’s Vineyard.