EARLY MORNING ON THE IPSWICH RIVER

EARLY MORNING ON THE IPSWICH RIVER

Water Closet for August 11, 2017 Seven paddlers including the Old Closeteer arose in the dark and wondered for a moment why they were doing so.  It was four-o’clock; sunrise, their target, was at five-thirty. They planned to greet the sun’s early light on the...
HOORAY, ICE IS BACK

HOORAY, ICE IS BACK

Water Closet for December 30, 2016 Ice is back as it should be in December. On Friday, 16 December, the early morning temperature was 0° F; the flags on a fair northwest wind in front of St. Agnes Church, the old Closeteer’s wind gauge, were straight out....

WOODEN WATER BUCKETS

Water Closet for December 4, 2015     [pullquote]”Our colleague happily grumbled on and told us of carrying water in the winter, full bucket from each arm, out through narrow paths in the snow, his swinging tormentors banging against legs as water spilling over...