Well, I guess David Bowie and Lena Horne and Glen Frye and Maurice White and B.B.King and Prince and her friend Eddie Heywood and Frank Sinatra and Eva Cassidy and Les Paul and all the other great musicians we have lost needed an organist to complete the band. My mother, Iole Jannace Gardella, our beloved Nonna, died at 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday May 10, eight days shy of her 99th birthday.
Welcome to National Do Your Homework for the Government Day, and now this headache should subside for another year. In other civic news, Tisbury, West Tisbury and Edgartown did the right thing and passed the plastic bag ban at Tuesday night’s town meetings.
I hate to admit it but Jeff Petre was correct. No, I did not put away my winter coat as he warned me not to. I took it to the dry cleaners. The rest, as they say, is recent history. I froze all weekend and into the week.
Has it been windy enough for you? Child psychologist Christopher Green always said that windy days affect cattle and toddlers. I guess I’m still a toddler; a windy day discombobulates me.
June Manning wants us to know that our Martha’s Vineyard Community Services needs some volunteers for two special projects this month. Offshore Ale is holding a Dine to Donate evening on Thursday, March 24. Your ticket will get you in to enjoy fine food and provide a donation for MVCS.
It is so hard to imagine every summer what the Island is going to look like come winter. So much was canceled last weekend, so many plans changed. In the next few weeks I suggest you call ahead for your events in case weather is getting the upper hand.
The Big Chili contest has come and gone for another year. Held last weekend at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs, this most popular annual Island event drew 1,800 people to taste, vote and catch up with their neighbors
Blizzard? I think we had that one under control. The funniest post I saw on Facebook was a scene of southern drivers slipping and sliding and not handling their four inches of snow very well.
The temperature dropped. The snow dropped. The kids dropped down the hill at the outlook on all kinds of sleds on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday. Stellar sledder was Piper Murphy’s daughter, Mary Afton, on a new sled painted like a penguin. I have a new project for Mary Afton and all you pet lovers. Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at our Chicken Alley Thrift Shop a $4 entrance charge will provide us with materials while we are taught to sew blanket beds for dogs, kittens, gerbils, whatever. Sounds like a fun Sunday afternoon. Everyone is welcome.
