Opening-up checklist
This handy list of tasks will keep you on track this spring
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Cottage LifeCottage Life
- Do a preliminary walk-around inspection of cottage
- Trim back trees overhanging cottage
- Gather loose brush into piles for kindling
- Check for and replace chewed electrical wires
- Put up screens and patch holes before bugs find them
- Check for shifting foundations
- Inspect the roof and eaves for loose or missing shingles, faulty flashing, gaping holes
- Stock up on candles and matches
- Discard food in pantry if it shows signs of mice or bug visitation
- Pitch out food tins bulging or swollen from freezing
- Replace old herbs and spices in pantry
- Restock medicine cabinet and first aid kits
- Check appliances for critter damage or habitation before turning on
- Fill the hot-water tank (before turning on the heating element — doh!)
- Test batteries in flashlights and smoke and CO detectors
- Clean the woodstove and fireplace chimneys
- Build a pass-through window on back porch
- Clean up after mice with damp mop and disinfectant
- Find mouse holes and block the suckers with steel wool
- Repair sticky doors and windows
- Fix broken window panes and replace old putty
- Sharpen blades on trimmer and chainsaw
- Check and replace damaged caulking and weatherstripping
- Inspect and tighten loose deck stairs and railings
- Find out why pads under deck posts are shifting
- Give the boat its spring tune-up
- Inspect life preservers for damage; make sure there are enough for everybody
- Do kids’ lifejackets still fit?
- Put up the flagpole and replace worn halyards
- Inspect flotation in floating docks
- Fix friggin’ potholes in lane
- Tighten or reinstall loose dock cleats and rings
- Hammer in raised nails on dock and repair loose boards
- Make horseshoe pit before family reunion!!!
- Clean and set out porch furniture
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