[Magdalen] Plain Speech.

[Jay Weigel]

No swales here. We have a ditch at the top of our property and a ravine at
the back. Neither carries water unless it rains. A lot. A whole lot, in the
case of the ravine.

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, we do actually have a scale down through the middle of the pasture,
> but I never heard it refer to anything man-made...
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> On May 30, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Being a native Midwesterner (USA), I'm fond of plain speech:  calling  a
> spade a spade.
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> I thus have a combination of irritation and amusement at my  development's
> habit of referring to what I would call the roadside ditch, a "swale"
> which
> they apparently think is fancier than, "ditch".
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> The authorities here are fixated on keeping "the swales" clear and  clean,
> and there was yet another general notice to this effect in the mail
> yesterday.
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> Actually, my swales were widened and deepened several years ago
> along with all those on this street, and then lined with stone.  This  was
> not asked for or really needed, but it does look good.
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> In the process of this swale-surgery, the several little stretches of
> "cat-tails" were also removed.  This is too bad, because I always  loved
> the cat-tails, even in the winter when all you saw was a golden brown
> patch of long leaves.
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> You can't fight city hall.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typha
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> David Strang.
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