The Vineyard must have several plant zones. I have frozen at least five times, requiring the busting of ice on the chicken’s water in the morning.

Many areas of my life are a series of reruns, why should this column be any different? I know I’ve written this story before, but hopefully not just last year. If I cannot remember, perhaps you don’t either.

I was extremely whiny on Monday working in the cold wind. Maybe it’s just me, but haven’t we had an inordinate amount of wind this fall?

My friend Sharlee lives on Chappy. For years we have traded garden and/or weather related anecdotes.

That was some serious wind last weekend. Sadly, it stripped all the beautiful reddish-orange leaves from my sugar maple. The good news, however, no real damage was done on the property and we did not lose power.

By the time this reaches the news stands we will have the news of the damage done in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa.