-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-27-19  05:00 <=-

 >  > it's been quite pleasant, what I term "bathwater" as it really doesn't
 >  ML> Though Keuka is one of the shallowest of the Finger Lakes
 >  ML> (if not the), it still runs upward (downward) of 100 feet
 >  ML> through much of it. I finally went in and got pretty chilled
 >  ML> despite the air temperature being in the 80s.
 > Sounds about right...    Even our Pond, which is shallower than the
 > Finger Lakes, can be cool enough to cool one off for the rest of the
 > day.... 
 ML> Unfortunately, the cottage was toward the end of one 
 ML> of the Y forks, so the water was wide enough to allow
 ML> full-speed power boating and narrow enough that the
 ML> wake would make surf crashing on shore. I don't care
 ML> for such conditions.

Can't blame you on that.... I'm not keen on surf crashing on shore
myself... 

 >  ML> By the way, I found that though I'm much more tenderfooted
 >  ML> than in the halcyon days, the zebra mussels weren't a problem,
 >  ML> as their shells crunched satisfyingly under my soles. By the
 >  ML> other way, I ate a zebra mussel - it tasted more shellfishy
 >  ML> than I'd have expected.
 > Yet another invasive species that might be controlled by turning into
 > food for the masses, perhaps...?  
 ML> There's enough biomass, but harvesting would be 
 ML> troublesome, as there were I'd say probably a
 ML> thousand to the pound.

That would make it less inviting to contemplate, even, true...  

 >  ML> They have to get there somehow, and unless you have
 >  ML> intakes from infested waters or boats launched that
 >  ML> have been in same, you're pretty golden.
 > No intakes into our Pond, just the springs, and then the water flows out
 > through the outlet (and what my son has identified as secondary
 > outlets)...   And we've tried to educate people on the Pond, including
 > guests, about not launching boats that haven't been properly cleaned
 > beforehand, especially if they've been used elsewhere previously...
 ML> Careful and complete scraping of boat bottoms is essential.
 
Indeed.

 >  > Even a couple of weeks ago, when it was cooler, I did a proper swim...
 >  > all the way in, and stay there for a while..  Granted, today's swim was
 >  > at least twice as long... I hated to get out....   
 >  ML> I got halfway between one dock and the neighboring
 >  ML> dock, and that was enough. Cut across to shore and
 >  ML> welcome.
 > Too much water to let the sun warm it up much, I guess...    At least
 > you got a bit of a swim in... 
 ML> I am becoming less and less of a water person - and
 ML> since my almost 20 lb net loss of water and/or fat,
 ML> whatever buoyancy I had is gone. I deadman's float 
 ML> totally below the surface nowadays, which would make
 ML> me a deadman for sure in short order.

Yeah, that's not particularly helpful... I still enjoy getting into the
Pond for a nice swim... I can tread water well enough...    RJ's been
complaining about the difference in bouyancy between the salt water he's
become used to in Turkey and the fresh water of the Pond... some people
just are never satisfied... 
 
ttyl        neb

... Haggis is defined, of course, as dining on a full stomach.

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