Soon...soon...

Still a little while, though...

Not sure if this is a long weekend for everyone but it is for us so we decided to take a drive up to Crow Lake and thereabouts on Saturday.  Christine had stopped by the cottage briefly on her way back from Kingston last weekend and noticed that the snow had piled up a little high (almost halfway up the windows) against the place.  She wanted to go back and clear some of it.  Everyone knows there's nothing I love more than a good shovelling session, so off we went.

There are people who live in Crow Lake year-round, but you still sort of expect the place to be deserted in winter.  Yet...not so much!  We decided to go take a walk on the lake and had to wait for three snowmobilers to make their way off from the public access area.  Then for some dude in a yellow truck who left and returned within a few minutes. Not sure what he was up to, he just sat in the middle of the lake.  We waved to our neighbours as they prepared to go for a walk of their own and then, being that in we're in Canada after all, there was a hockey game under preparation across the lake from our place.

We had planned to have a late (Valentine's Day, to my mind) lunch or early dinner at The Maples Restaurant, but the place was crawling with cars, as were all the side streets.  We had noticed a sign near the old school house to the effect that the Frontenac Heritage Festival was on all weekend, but didn't realise how popular that event is.

There was a huge crowd on Sharbot Lake and some sort of snowmobile event going on.  Seemed kind of fun, and I'm sure that if I looked around, someone somewhere would have been selling something maple-flavoured, too. But finding parking looked like a nightmare so instead it goes to next year's "things to check out" list.