What can I say, February is the shortest month chronologically, and at the same time the longest. School days have voids of student and adult as the season catches up with those that have held back cold / flu / sickness. It’s marking season, as well as IPP’s for us in Student Services. It becomes busy. Yet, one makes do! The daylight hours stretch, you get outside and exercise, do an honest chore, and try your best to be productive and positive! Yes… let’s talk Lumsden February!
While Ms L was zeroing in on semester one marking, Mr L was out galavanting around the woodsie-lore of Guysborough County the first weekend of February. It was a beaut! Camp got warm, wood 🪵 got cut, hiking 🥾 galore, and a check on systems (solar / heat / refrigeration). This is the season that “never was” at Smelt Lake, only enabled since Rosa XXL made its way across the lake in 2019. It’s a bit lonely, as it’s a one person trip (we heat one room with one bed) but the rewards are absolutely a bit of old fashioned “Man vs Nature”!
If it strikes you that the last couple of posts are feeling like weekend to weekend, it’s because they absolutely are 😂. The work a day will not factor any longer in this post! We spontaneously combusted on Friday #2, and got outta Dodge. Next stop, West Bay… where we booked a cottage with all the trimmings, including hot tub, and built a trip around that. Saturday included hiking in Isle Madame, coffee ☕️ in St Peter’s and lakeside drive in Dundee. We really had a great day ♥️ and weekend!
The month, indeed, remained a mix of camp on weekends and Monday to Friday school work. We did, however, manage to squirrel away some time for trip planning and are very much looking forward to March Break. More to follow when we post next month, but it goes without saying that we have come to treasure our vacation opportunities and have learned to maximize the nine day span so very little is lost in waiting / making decisions. Bring it on was the sentiment, as Feb ‘25 faded into the horizon!