Well, I have spent more time than I probably should admit studying some of those old houses. Actually, Ames had two or three...or more hammershops going in North Easton. There were the big stone shops in the center of town, the hoe shop, a little to the west, and another one at the end of the Pond which I live on. During what years was your Dad in North Easton? I didn't move into this area until 1977...but it's home now. My best recent mini-adventure on our pond was seeing two otters out there playing...or whatever it is they do, diving, surfacing, rolling over etc. about a week ago. I have seen a lot of otter tracks on the ice/snow in the winter, but that is only the 2nd otter sighting I have had in my almost 30 years of living here. The first one was seeing an otter under some clear ice, 15-20 years ago. Old Oliver built the dam that created this pond, but he never paid much attention to local wildlife, which is actually a lot more prevalent now, than it was then. He would record the depth of the water in the floom of his ponds and how much rain fell in each storm, the weight of the oxen that he "kild" and how many pounds of potatoes they harvested, but the "aesthetic-nature" piece was pretty much missing, at least as far as his journal was concerned.
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During what years was your Dad in North Easton? I didn't move into this area until 1977...but it's home now.
My best recent mini-adventure on our pond was seeing two otters out there playing...or whatever it is they do, diving, surfacing, rolling over etc. about a week ago. I have seen a lot of otter tracks on the ice/snow in the winter, but that is only the 2nd otter sighting I have had in my almost 30 years of living here. The first one was seeing an otter under some clear ice, 15-20 years ago.
Old Oliver built the dam that created this pond, but he never paid much attention to local wildlife, which is actually a lot more prevalent now, than it was then. He would record the depth of the water in the floom of his ponds and how much rain fell in each storm, the weight of the oxen that he "kild" and how many pounds of potatoes they harvested, but the "aesthetic-nature" piece was pretty much missing, at least as far as his journal was concerned.
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