October 4th, 2015
Watertown, NY

After a hike in the Tug Hill State Forest yesterday, I drove to Lowville to visit the Lowville Producers Dairy Cooperative cheese store and to witness, with my own eyes, LeWinDa, New York’s largest cow.  I tell ya, there is never a dull moment here in the North Country!

Recent adventures have included a multi-day trip to Tupper Lake where I kayaked on the Raquette River and quaffed cold beer on a balmy late summer afternoon at Raquette River Brewing, a visit to the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton (which is really a cool place), and a visit to the Tibbet’s Point Lighthouse.  But it will be hard to top LeWinDa.

 

Cool triple cockpit speedboat.

I love the cockpit on this Dodge.

Highly sophisticated steering mechanism.

Very cool instrumentation on this 1935 Garwood.

And an exceptionally cool bow light fixture on this 1928 Pen Yan Owl.

Oh, and then there was the Woolly Worm Races.

I have connected with and am now a member of Oswego County Search & Rescue. Their annual fundraiser is the Woolly Worm Races at the Central Square Apple Festival.  I was there.  I helped run the event.  I’m livin’ la vida loca, let me tell ya!

Everyone knows that the size of the brown section of the woolly worm caterpillar is a highly accurate predictor of the severity of the winter to come.  Just not everyone agrees on whether more brown means a milder winter or a colder one.  And there is little scientific data on the brown section as an indicator of speed in woolly races.

The Oswego County Pioneer Search and Rescue Woolly Worm Races at the Lioness Club of Central Square Apple Festival.  This is where it’s at.

Clearly an expert woolly racer, this young man is applying his official woolly worm motivator tool.

Only an inch from the red finish line, this champion woolly is about to take the checkered flag.

You simply haven’t lived until you’ve seen woolly worm racing.  And let me just say that the LPDC XXX-Treme Sharp White Cheddar is the bomb!