Re: global warming: a world w more fungus?

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I was talking to some childhood friends just recently about ice skating. We

live in MD and we all had our own skates. If you didn't have a pair that fit

you could always find someone who had a some to fit you. We would skate on

the local ponds for a good two months in the winter. My children are in their

20's (we live in the same area) and have never been on a real pond. They have

only skated indoors because the ponds just don't freeze anymore!! We also

had snow every winter which would last for weeks. Now when it does snow (which

isn't often) it usually melts within days. Most people I talk to just say

they are happy it doesn't get that cold anymore! The climate is certainly

changing and it isn't a good thing.

Sue

don't know if anyone remembers the discussion about it seeming to

have more algae outside about year ago. A huge tree in my front yard

is covered in it and concret around my house has to be cleaned of it

every year lately. I have just noticed it within last several years.

A childhood friends home we used to ice skate on their small lake was

purchased by a daughter and I asked her if her kids were enjoying lake

like we did when we were kids and she said no the lake doesn't freeze

over any more because of heavy coat of algae they haven't been able to

get rid of

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Barb

Check this web page out.. (below)

Copper sulfate may be able to help your friends with the pond scum..

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Ohio State University Fact Sheet:

Controlling Filamentous Algae in Ponds

http://ohioline.osu.edu/a-fact/0003.html

You know that algae and moss are plants, right?

They are not fungi. Still, algal growth is a big problem for many people.

Its definitely getting worse in many areas.

Algae (in water) may be caused by both climate and fertilizer runoff.

The moss/grass ratio in soil is effected by soil PH. Some people are

gowing moss instead of grass now, because once established, it

actually needs less maintainance and (many think) is prettier than

grass. It needs much less water too..

(although it likes early morning mist.)

Here is the first sentence of an NY Times article I saw a while ago...

" DAVID BENNER hasn't watered his lawn since the Kennedy

administration. He hasn't mowed it, either. And it's doing just fine. "

In the Garden

Moss Makes a Lush, No-Care Lawn

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/garden/01moss.html

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM, barb1283 <barb1283@...> wrote:

>

> I don't know if anyone remembers the discussion about it seeming to

> have more algae outside about year ago. A huge tree in my front yard

> is covered in it and concret around my house has to be cleaned of it

> every year lately. I have just noticed it within last several years.

>

> A childhood friends home we used to ice skate on their small lake was

> purchased by a daughter and I asked her if her kids were enjoying lake

> like we did when we were kids and she said no the lake doesn't freeze

> over any more because of heavy coat of algae they haven't been able to

> get rid of.

>

> Here is a story along those lines. Polar bears in Japan zoo turning

> green with algae:

>

> http://tinyurl.com/5gek73

>

[Guest guest]

I live in Ohio and it was a regular thing for us to go ice skating on

small lakes and ponds around here but I never see any kids doing that

come to think of it. Her small natural lake would be so hard, and was

at the bottom of good size hill, we would come down on tabogans and

slide across the ice, not deliberately but accientally and it supported

us. I was so surprised it wasn't being used any more.

>

> I was talking to some childhood friends just recently about ice

skating. We

[Guest guest]

Well, seems like this is happening all over.

Lakes freeze much less, also parents are more protective.

The cost of a stay in the hospital is so astronomical, who can blame them.

In the town I grew up in, the skating pond that I remembered from

childhood was long ago converted into tennis courts.

Kids also are not that interested in things like skating.

They are more into video games and surfing the net.

Their parents pressure them into after school actvities that

will increase their chances of getting into an Ivy League school.

No time for fun and games anymore.

The rat race begins with getting into the " right " preschools. Seriously.

Also, climate has changed a lot.

People have palm trees (!) growing in their yards when they NEVER

would have survived in the past.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:48 AM, barb1283 <barb1283@...> wrote:

> I live in Ohio and it was a regular thing for us to go ice skating on

> small lakes and ponds around here but I never see any kids doing that

> come to think of it. Her small natural lake would be so hard, and was

> at the bottom of good size hill, we would come down on tabogans and

> slide across the ice, not deliberately but accientally and it supported

> us. I was so surprised it wasn't being used any more.

>

>

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>> I was talking to some childhood friends just recently about ice

> skating. We

>

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