by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 25, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 28, 2015 [pullquote]”We old timers wish for teachers who would take them out doors, hand held electronic devices left inside, and there learn the local trees, birds, bugs, and more importantly each other”[/pullquote].On Friday...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 18, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 21, 2015 [pullquote] “The outlet pipe to the pond is a foot too high so won’t let the water and fish go directly on. The four-score fish admired were doomed to suffocate. “[/pullquote] Friday’s Council on Aging/ Conservation...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 11, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 14, 2015 70 YEARS AGO AND AFTER [pullquote]”The wind-water borne radiation from Chernobyl fell even further away than distant Wales where 25 years later the soils in certain pastures still grow grass that taints the milk of grazing...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 4, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 7, 2015 [pullquote]”The new oaks in the clear-cut are a healthy six to twelve feet high with patches of productive berries and a score of other plants, many fruiting or flowering, in between”[/pullquote]In the cold months of 2011...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 31, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for 7-31-15 On 18 June the Vatican published Pope Francis’ encyclical entitled Laudato Si’. The Pope with his moral authority has come down emphatically against man’s adverse role in climate change and environmental degradation. In 74 pages without...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 21, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for 7-24-15 [pullquote]”As the Stream Team has so many times before urged here, get out there with kayak, canoe, or just walk where you can along our river’s edges.”[/pullquote] At seven-o’clock last Sunday morning the Ipswich River passing...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 14, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 17, 1015 [pullquote]”Gray Treefrogs seem to be expanding their range, and I have never found out why this is.”[/pullquote]Tiny Gray Treefrogs have huge voices in a sound to size ratio. We in the Water Closet after reading naturalist...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 7, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 10, 2015 [pullquote]”Pond lilies provide food, shade, protection, substrate for small creatures and perhaps even aesthetic delights as clouds above us do.” [/pullquote](It is white water lily time again. The following Water Closet...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 30, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 3, 2015 [pullquote]”It had two plywood planks, one each side, attached to a lance shaped, pointed at both ends, ½ inch plywood bottom.”[/pullquote] Boat designer Philip C. Bolger lived until his death at 82 in 2009 ten leagues...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 23, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 26, 2015 [pullquote]”The tree we admired was a great robust ball of dark green a hundred-feet in diameter poised above a sturdy trunk, sixteen-feet in circumference at waist height.”[/pullquote]Fred Rossi’s fine table, made from the...
