Glacial

Wow, what a slow blog-week for me again! My puter is still a bit messed up, n should be fixed more thoroughly, but is presently allowing me to type, - so here it is!
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Today was a beaut, 50 degrees n sunny. Well, quite unusual for January this week again. The weather guy this am. said it's the warmest here ever on record!
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The related news story was that Burlington Vermont had to call off the ice-fishing contest to be held in February, because the ice has never been thinner up there on Lake Champlain this time of the winter season. Oh well, maybe next year, they're hoping...
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When I was little, about 7, we used to take two-week summer vacation in a cottage on the shore of that Lake. I remember spending alot of time playing and swimming there with my cousin John, who was born on the same day, same year as me, but up there in Burlington. (Now he lives near LA of CA.) My Mother grew up in that lake area, n met my Dad there at UVM before he was shipped to Korea, then they married n moved to the Massachusetts- Boston area where I was raised with the other four sibs.
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The fun story about that glacial Lake Champlain, which is miles deep n located between up-state New York n Northern Vermont, is the legend of "Champ" the sea-monster, who is reported to haunt the waters. Like "Nessie" of the Loch Ness in Scotland, it's got the odd reports of sightings n obscure photos, n rumored to be a hoax or Sturgeon fish, which can grow to six foot lengths. Like Nessie, it's also theorized as possibly being a surviving underwater Plesiosaur from the dinosaur era. It's interesting that both of the lakes in different continents are near the same latitudes, with the same un-proven legend mysteries.
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I haven't seen the lake's Champ yet, but my first dog as a child that was a boxer, was named Champ!
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What I did notice in that lake way back when, were tons of those little baby, striped muscles, with such pretty shells. I saved some of those packed in a box somewhere.I remember a news story from just a couple years back, that they're not natives of the lake, but are an accidental foriegn, hostle, take-over species. The native shell-fish were reported to be almost completely gone. Now the striped renegades are spreading through fresh-waterways throughout the continent, clogging up fish spawning-grounds n all sorts of man-made water contraptions, like piers, bridges, n hydro-plants.
The good point brought up about the new muscles clustering everywhere, is the surprizing fact they appear to be cleaning up water pollution, as natural filters, purifying the water as they take over all available space from the other fresh-water species.
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The eco-system is changing, n it's uncontrollable. Glaciers melted n formed the lakes n the land we live on. Now there's a volcano in Alaska, the perma-frost there has melted for the first time, the northern hemisphere is warmer, longer than before. Scientists state the polar-ice-caps are shrinking. Species are changing food sources or dying out of existance.
Another pod of white-sided dolphins were beach-stranded on the Cape late this week, only 5 out of 20 were saved. The number of strandings this year here is unprecedented! The news reported the initial animals tested the past few weeks were starving, n had no other apparent physical afflictions.
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The positive I get out of this warmer day is I'm warmer, n don't have to pay the heat for today, it's shut off... n my puter seems to like warmer...