[Magdalen] Plain Speech.

[Jon Egger]

It's ditch for me.  When I was a kid my dad always said, "You don't want to
grow up to be a ditch-digger all your life!"

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Grace & peace,
Deacon Jon Egger



*“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who
has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to
deceive and overawe the People."(Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech, June 16,
1918) *


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
> >
> > On May 30, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Being a native Midwesterner (USA), I'm fond of plain speech:  calling  a
> > spade a spade.
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > You can't fight city hall.
> >
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typha
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>