Outside Activities For Kids During
Covid-19 Times
1. Set up an
obstacle course in the driveway
2. Star gaze - learn
about constellations
3. Hang a bird feeder and count
bird species
4. Keep a nature journal
5. Make a
map of your neighborhood
6. Make a rock garden
7.
Play flashlight tag
8. Make luminarias and light up
your
driveway or front walkway
9. Build fairy houses
10. Make music outside - wind chimes, tin can drums,
rubber band guitar
11. Paint rocks with message of
hope and place around the house
12. Scavenger hunt in
the backyard
Town Meeting Approves Funding for
Milfoil Removal
At the March 14, 2020
Tilton Town meeting, voters
approved funding for the
Lake
Improvement/Maintenance Capital Reserve Fund which was
established
in 2008 to protect our public water
resources from the scourge of this invasive.
Two
local organizations, the Winnisquam Watershed Network
and the Silver Lake Association, have requested
fundsfrom the Town for work
to be completed in the
summer of 2020 to chemically and manually
rid local
lakes of this aquatic plant. Both organizations are
partnering
with the NH Department of Environmental
Services and have received
grants to accomplish
their goals.
More details will follow in future newsletters.
Ticks
As the weather warms and people start spending
more time outdoors,
so do some unpleasant arachnids,
namely ticks. NH has four types of ticks
which bite
and transmit diseases. They are the American dog tick,
the
black-legged tick, the brown dog tick, and the
Lone Star tick. As soon as the eggs hatch,
the ticks
require constant meals of blood. They look to attach to
a host, and then
insert a feeding tube held in place
with barbs or even a kind of cement.
However, we can all protect ourselves and still
enjoy being outdoors
if we follow some basic
common-sense guidelines.
* Wear long pants,
long-sleeved shirts, and boots. Even better, spray
clothing with permethrin.
* Wear light-colored clothing so you can see any tick
hitchhikers.
* Always check your
body and your clothes for ticks when you come inside.
* Tumbledry your clothes in the dryer after you come in.
Take a shower. Check again for ticks.
* Check pets to
be sure they are not bringing ticks into your house.
For more details including pictures, go to TickFree NH.
UNH Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet