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One Hot Party

Celebrate Cottage Life’s 20 years with 20 ideas for a great campfire fest: s’more tips, smoke charmers, music makers, flame facts, and our anniversary cocktail. Plus…

Pick The Perfect Spot
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And finesse the perfect fire.

Play By Smokie's Rule
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No point in burning down the neighbourhood.

Tell A Really Scary Story
By Diane Forrest

It was a dark and stormy night…

Honour The Fire
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Why are campfires so captivating ?

Take A Shot In The Dark
By Bonnie Schiedel

Make memorable fireside photos.

A Diamond In The Rough
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How a dedicated cottager, fresh paint, and lots of elbow grease brought this little Lake Joseph gem back to life.

Theory of Relativity
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These families stayed together by moving apart, into cottages on the same lake.

Your Waterfront's Secret Service
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Build a dock seat double agent. It also hauls your canoe up out of the water.

First Principles
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Great new recipes for the campfire, where cooking began.

Puttering

Task Master

Outdoor ground-fault circuit breakers

Real Tools

Professional-grade wire strippers

Bright Idea

One-time exterior wood finish and preservative

Cottage Plans

A compact, timber-frame tower

Hit List

Are dollar-store tools worth the savings?

Job Jar

A substitute for pilot-hole drill bits

Great Inventions

Backwoods AC; bungee-cord plant hangers

On The Waterfront

Muskoka running mates
A boat reno surprise
Tiny cottages
Canoes from the House of Windsor
Potato gun initiation
Beach mystery
S.O.S. for Clean Marine
Cedar waxwing babies
What you didn't know about beer
A decoy for wasps
Post Cards from Lake of Bays book review
Zimmer rants on the apocalypse and family feuds

Cottage Q&A

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Telephone party lines; tax breaks for forests; how to fix slippery steps; rules for road rights; sheeko or chicot?

Cottage Finds

All bases covered
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By the dock or on a deck, choose from a variety of umbrellas to fit your cottage needs.

Nature Scrapbook

Peel me a grape
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Fruit is the food of love for courting cedar waxwings.

Cottage Classic

By Michelle Kelly

Want some corn on the cob with your butter?