Penny Caldwell

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. Every day—and I’m 100 per cent not exaggerating about this—somebody asks me for directions. I used to think that this was a location thing. The Cottage Life office is right...

I’m just back from a Family Day weekend trip to visit DD in Halifax, so haven't seen much of Mitch in the last few days. DH took him up to Collingwood to visit Joey, and they had a great, long tramp in the woods. Two happy dogs...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor Many of you will have set up bubblers to keep ice from forming around your docks or boathouses this winter and causing unwanted and expensive damage. It’s a good strategy:...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. The winner of our 2011 Caption Contest was announced in the just-released April 2012 issue. (Here is the photo, but see p. 23 of the issue for the winning caption.) It was a very close...

Mitch met his first unfriendly on the weekend. One minute he and another dog were happily introducing themselves on the snowy trail in a beautiful nearby provincial park; the next, the pretty female spaniel had him pinned on the...

Here’s a question to ponder over the weekend. If a cottager were to set up a flush toilet in a little hut, separate from the cottage, perhaps with a barn door to facilitate the view out, and nothing else inside, what would you...

Mitch is walking well on the leash and off. In our area, it happens that dogs are often off-leash, just like at the cottage, and so a story in the new issue of Cottage Life (it mails to subscribers this week) got me thinking about...

Last night I joined a happy crowd of Georgian Bay cottagers for the Georgian Bay Land Trust’s 2012 Winterlude at Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. There were lots of highlights for me: attending with my dad who introduced me to...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor So much for that, then. The ecoEnergy Retrofit program is now kaput. As of January 29, the federal Ministry of Natural Resources has closed the program to new registrants,...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. Yesterday, I watched paddling instructor Becky Mason’s Advanced Classic Solo Canoeing DVD—her latest instructional movie on how to perform various advanced (solo) paddling...