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BEAT THE BLACK FLIES: HIT THE TRAILS NOW
Lace up your boots. Fill up your water bottle. And head out for a hike on one of the many trails through the Nubanusit Neighborhood. We have cleared and blazed trails that will take you along the riverside, through white-pine forests, around awesome boulders left by ancient glaciers, up close to a porcupine den, and beside bubbling cascades jumping over rocks.
If you want all the elevation at the beginning of your hike, do the White Dot Trail clock-wise: start at the top of the cow pasture; wind through large pine trees, beeches, and ash; cross two streams as you skirt the side of the hill, come to a cliff looking down to the Nubanusit River, and mosey down along the river to the hay field. Or, if you want to climb gradually and descend quickly, go counter-clockwise from the west end of the hay field.
For a little more adventure, take the Perimeter Trail from the top of the horse pasture, and follow old stone walls (there’s a mystery up there – two parallel walls) around the property lines. Look for signs of deer, moose, porcupines. Listen to all sorts of birds. The trail ends up on the Nubanusit River end of the White Dot Trail (see above).
The Forest and Trails Team maintains the trails, and is opening up new trails – one follows a stream lazily down the side of the hill, another follows an old dirt road between tumbled-down stone walls through pines with four-foot wide trunks.
And there are lots of walks available outside the woods, around the hay-field by the river, around the farm, on pavement through the community, or along sidewalks for one mile to Peterborough center.
Nubi is a pedestrian-friendly community, so come enjoy our walkways, our trails, our gardens, and our woods.
Peter Johnson
May 3, 2011
The sounds of summer are in the air, the small flowers are poking above ground and the smell of green grass and sunshine are surrounding the neighborhood. The sun shines well past 7 in the evenings and kids (and of course some adults!) can be found playing with balls, parachutes, Frisbees and guinea pigs on the common. Laughter bounces off the houses and the grass grows greener everyday.
The CSA is beginning again, and this past Saturday I helped in the store, weighing mesclun (thanks to Barbara M, I know how to spell it correctly:) and sorting things into bags for various customers. Sunday I awoke to the bright sun and birds and leaves budding from the trees. The day was spent mostly outside, enjoying the beauty of the day and playing with whomever came out. There was a game of soccer, which turned remarkably into a game of tackle soccer with the help of the boys….:) as well as some Frisbee included in the game……Froccer anyone? By potluck time we were all sweaty, dirty and tired, but trooped in to dinner.
The weekend was fun, filled with grass stains smiles, laughter and the joy of Spring!
Elsbeth, 15
For the Nubi Kids
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Our chicks hatched two weeks ago today at a big hatchery in the midwest. They made it through the sexing process (as featured on the PBS special Dirty Jobs) and were determined to be female (males are culled), promptly put in a package, and shipped overnight to Keene, NH, where we picked them up the following day. We put them in a box that looked remarkably like a Dunkin Donuts’ Munchkins box and brought them home, where they have since been underneath a heat lamp in our basement.
So today was, quite literally, their first moment out in the fresh air. They didn’t know what to do at first, but they quickly settled down and started tearing up the grass, something at which chickens excel. Oh, and the girls enjoyed the fresh air too.
Title: BLAH meeting
Location: CH East Room
Description: review draft revised bylaws, declaration
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2011-04-24
Continuing its recognition for enhancing the sense of community, intelligent land use, and environmental stewardship, Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm received an award from Plan NH at their 2011 spring gathering.
You can read more about the award and Plan NH on the Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm web site.
Also, in my former corporate life, we were coached to ‘walk the talk’, which is applicable to the development partners, who own homes here, and to another resident, an architect in a firm also receiving an Plan NH award. We as a community embody this behavior in our values, one of which is Environmental Stewardship:
We support sustainable practices and aim to minimize our ecological impact on the earth.
* We consider our ecological footprint when making community decisions.
* We manage our lands in harmony with natural processes.
* We tend our agricultural land using organic methods to grow food for our community.
Plan NH’s mission and award selection criteria provide guidance for physically creating an award-winning community such as ours, but it’s the people living here day-to-day walking the talk. I guess you could say we’re all walkers. Join us for your daily exercise and inspiration.
The blue sky and sun had at last began to shine over us, and the small birds were once again resuming their cheerful songs in the branches of the trees, when we were hit with yet another snow. It started after our weekly Thursday dinner. It was pasta with meatballs and bread sticks, cooked by Lynne. All the kids enjoyed it thoroughly, and were laughing and running around happily. Once the dishes were cleared away, and kids were running to and from the table piled high with Noel’s cookies, stuffing them into their mouths, the first snow began to fall. It came silently, as if not wanting for us to see it was back, and quickly coated the ground in white. It would have been beautiful if it wasn’t for the fact that it was March 31. The flakes were huge, falling relentlessly from the gray sky and quickly covering the walkways.
As we walked up our pathway to our house, and the big flakes stuck to our eyelashes, we talked of if we would have school the next day……By 8:30 it was at least 1 inch thick and the whole world seemed to have baited breath, waiting to see how much snow we would be covered with. In the early morning our house phone rang twice, and through my sleepy state I knew those two calls meant school was canceled for us. I peeked out my window and saw what in January one would call a “winter wonderland” yet on April 1st it didn’t make me smile. It was beautiful and all, yet it held a certain sense of meanness to it, like winter was taking advantage of us, and overriding the glories of spring.
I will go outside and play with the kids today. No doubt we will talk about how the snow was unwelcome, how we were all ready for spring. But we will make the most of it no doubt, building, playing and laughing in this unexpected snowfall on the 1st of April. Maybe it is Mother Nature’s idea of an April Fools joke! Who knows…:p
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
Elsbeth 15
For the Nubi Kids
I met with our oldest neighbor, Pamela. Even at the age 84 she attends every neighborhood event, lending a quiet presence, helping any way she can. She lives with her son, Clive, in an apartment in one of the “quads.” After her morning walk (even on the cold days!), she will often spend the mornings taking in the view from her son’s 2nd floor office.
Pamela was born in 1927 in South Africa and lived there for 50 years. She has also lived in England and France. She moved to the United States from Paris in 1980 with her 2nd husband. She has lived in Rhode Island, Florida and since April 2009, Nubanusit! What follows is a synopsis of our discussion
How do you like living here?
“I love it! I like the people enormously – they are very helpful.”
What do you enjoy about it?
“I enjoy the openness of the buildings and the land. I love going to meals- the food is excellent.” (On Sundays we have a potluck and Thursdays a meal cooked by that week’s volunteer cooking team).
What are some things you do?
“I walk a lot in the neighborhood. And Lynne (a neighbor) and I go out for lunch once a week. Clive and I go to Boston to visit friends”.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Pamela out for her daily walk.
“Sometimes I worry that I am not pulling my weight with all the things there are to do. And I miss being able to travel.
