Long Lake Yarns

Click here to listen at the Cornell ornithology site for the drumming of a ruffed grouse.  Click here to listen to what the lake was doing today.  As the ice cracks, especially with temperature changes when the sound isn’t muffled by a lot of snow, the entire surface of Long Lake becomes an acoustic membrane. [...]

It hasn’t been a rough winter so far.  No extremes of temperature.  Less than the usual amount of snow.  But it is still late January and there are months of wintry weather behind and ahead.  The lake is beautiful, in its wintry ways. Somehow the snow pulls both sides of the lake more toward the [...]

Several years ago, a co-worker told me that her husband’s elderly Great Aunt Cecelia died.  Such news does not often make it into my workplace. Cecelia’s  yarn and other related knitting what-nots were en route to Michigan.  My co-worker once had knitting aspirations.  But a busy work life and I assume motherhoodedness and many other [...]

The only place I make time to do an occasional jigsaw puzzle is at the lake.   This 550 piece loon puzzle made for a fun quiet day at the coffee table.  Until.

Sealed-in-plastic puzzles never have pieces missing, do they?  Once, when I was a child, we got a thousand-piecer with one duplicate piece and [...]