ASMR of lake life, w kitty purrs and stories (use headphones!)

The Attitude of Play

AMSR of lake life
This episode is an experiment!

A slow, gentle, AMSR-infused sample of what a warm day sounds like by a lake. Rather than the usual sound editing to minimize background noise, I left it all in.

Please listen with headphones. Sit back with your favorite beverage, and close your eyes. You’ll hear music, laughter, a ski boat, waves lapping on shore, a riding lawn mower, and lots of purring and some meows from Callisi kitty.

When I speak, I tried to adjust the volume not to blast you, hopefully the volume levels will work for both the quiet bits and me talking.

Let me know what you think of this AMSR-type episode! You can find me on IG @kimberlyplayoflight. I’m still just learning my way around Insta, bear with me.

Episode:

This is the first hot day of the year, it got to 92º, righteously hot. It was hot today. And the water’s still so cold, only 65º.
[ski boat goes by]
I just wanted to give you the chance to listen to what a warm summer day sounds like, on a lake.
[music, laughter, riding lawn mower, laughter, waves]

Do you hear the waves slamming to the left?
[Callisi meows] “Hi baby, do you want to say something?” [meow.]
[waves rolling onshore, kids playing at the boat launch]

On the weekends in summertime, it’s like a beach party.
Like I have a front row seat to beach party, every warm Friday - Sunday.
Most of the time, it’s fun, there’s a lot of laughter, playing,
hooting and hollering, having fun.
I like watching skiers. There’s kayakers, paddle boarders, jet skis.
Once in a while too much, somebody comes out with a stack boat, “raaar!” fortunately that’s rare.

Do you hear the sound of the waves? Oops, wind noise may be blowing this out!

In winter, you don’t get these rhythmic waves, just sloshing against the shore.
There’s nothing to create that ripple in the water, to make a wave, like a boat does.
That’s a distinctly – that’s human season.
There’s wildlife season and human season, and we’re just opening up human season.

Callisi, my white Turkish angora kitty cat – she has her own fan club!
These people go by in their slow boat, a ‘portable porch’ I call it.
Every time this one couple comes by, “kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty! Kitty, kitty! Hi kitty
kitty!”
They call her! And she comes!

She has her own fan club! She’s very striking, long-haired white cat, against the green foliage, so she really stands out. “Kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!”

On the lake, there’s two kinds of people: there’s wavers, and non-wavers.
I’m a waver. I don’t wave every time, but when I do, and they wave back -- even though we don’t know each other face to face, we know we’re part of the same community.

It’s fascinating how sound travels across the water.
I am downwind, 99% of the time, and in the evening, when the lake gets really still, and a light gentle breeze carries voices across the water to me, I literally can hear word for
word conversations a mile away. It’s astonishing.
Certain people, their voices carry so boldly; other people, it’s just a murmur.

Kinda tricked my best friend.
When I was a kid, and we’d come up here on vacation, from Los Angeles, come to visit this beautiful fairyland that was my grandparents’, I got to bring one of my girlfriends,
so I had my best friend with me.
The year that Maryanne came up, ohmigod we had so much fun!
We were 17, we were giggly, we were silly, we were playful -- it was so easy. So much fun. We had such a good time!

We stayed in the bunkhouse -- and I will get to how I tricked her in a moment -- we stayed in a bunkhouse my grandp