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A LETTER FROM LINDA
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| Having so little
snow cover this winter, I am amazed how well flowering shrubs are showing
their color, though it may be harder on bulbs in low-lying areas. However,
last fall’s heavy rains, which flooded many areas in and around your
cottages, gave us all quite a time. According to Town officials, Tripp Lake
reached the highest levels in a decade. John and I phoned the Town for help
after the lake rose 18- 24 inches above normal. Thanks to more calls from
Bill Henderson, Mike Shapiro, Russ Moat and Dick Harris, we were able to get
their attention. The town manager and the road foreman discovered the outlet
had been blocked with beaver dams, debris and was home to several beavers.
When all were removed, the lake lowered considerably. Presently, May’s good
soaking rains have filled the water table and dampened the dry woods,
bringing us back to a balance. |
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This could be my special word for you
and me: balance. Try to find time to rest within work schedules. Stop daily
to see what nature provides while getting the land and cottage ready
for this season. Help your neighbor clean out ditches and culverts so only
clean water goes into the lake. Wait a minute and take some pictures of what
our lake means to you and your family. Have some fun after a big
work project, as Judy and Dell King do. Check out what our year’s focus is
and do your part. Think of what you can do to keep TLIA on the move
to preserve Tripp Lake. We need you, your ideas and your
enthusiastic balance of recreation and conservation.
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A LETTER FROM JUDY
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It’s been a busy fall and winter. I continue to
work for Milton Public Schools in Massachusetts. This year I’ve become
the early childhood coordinator for the town. I still teach about ten hours
per week, but most of my time is spent administering the program. Dell is
semi-retired and works part time as a
rehab counselor for Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. Our big news is
that our daughter Samantha is getting married in August. Terry Hurley
proposed at the Franklin Park Zoo with the gorillas as witnesses. (Not as
weird as it seems…Sam has loved all monkeys since she was little.) So,
needless to say, I will be distracted this summer as I plan and prepare for
the wedding. Bear with me, please! Linda and I continue to work together to
plan activities that will help ensure
that the Tripp Lake environment stays pristine. |
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WE
NEED YOUR HELP!!! We need someone who can
scuba dive
to assess the area
around the boat ramp. We need to discover if there are any invasive plants
being brought into our lake in that area. It’s a prime area of concern.
If you can, please volunteer to help with this project. Don’t worry if you
don’t know what the plants look like...we’ll help you. Training in plant
recognition is also available. We need someone to go down and look. We also
continue to need people to spot
Purple Loosestrife.
If you’ve any of these pretty purply-pink flowers growing on your
waterfront, let us know and we’ll help you remove them. They may be pretty,
BUT they are invasives which can impact the quality of our lake. I’ll be
opening the
TLIA Store
on June 26.This will
be my last year as shopkeeper for “TLIA Tee’s, Caps and Things” because my
four-room cabin is really too small for our inventory. We need a volunteer
to take over the sales….I’m willing to help anyone interested. It’s fun to
run the store because you meet so many great lake folks who stop to
make purchases. For the past two years we’ve had some vandalism to our
property. Last year, all our solar lights were stolen; this year, someone
destroyed wooden decorative ducks attached to our deck railings. Neither was
valuable, but the ducks had been hand made by Bill Bentley
(carpenter extraordinaire) and hand painted by yours truly. If anyone has
had any vandalism, let me know and we’ll see what we can do about it. Call
me at 998-3276. |
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