Penny Caldwell

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. As every cottager knows, spring brings bugs. I don’t spend much time at the cottage in the spring, but I do experience bugs in the city. When the weather gets mild, they invade my...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor If you read the latest blog post by Jackie Davis, you’ll know that the future is on our minds here at Cottage Life. Her list of futuristic inventions made me recall a press...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. Recently, Terrafugia unveiled its flying car, a.k.a the roadable aircraft. (So maybe it should really be called the “driving plane?”) It completed its first flight on March 23, in...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor As with the Ontario budget (see my post last week), the federal budget gave short shrift to the environment and was gung-ho on promoting economic development, pushing forward...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. In our May issue, we have an article on mice at the cottage (pg. 135). Based on the number of letters we’ve gotten (already!), this is a huge topic for cottagers. We usually have...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor When the economy is ailing, funding for the environment is often first on the chopping block. The perceived wisdom is that jobs are more important than the air or the water or...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. This weekend is, of course, the Spring Cottage Life Show (March 30 to April 1). I’ll be there, along with the rest of the Cottage Life editors. There’s a ton of stuff to see and do...

Last July, 23-year-old cottager Colin Eadie was involved in a boating accident. It was dark—around 3 a.m. He was driving when the boat hit an island. His best friend died. That’s the short story. Eadie, who is the same age as...

When you find out you’re talking to a cottager, naturally one of the first questions is “Where’s your cottage?” This year at the Spring Cottage Life Show, we’re making it even easier for you to find your cottage...

Thanks to Robert Pratten who e-mailed to tell me the ice went out yesterday morning on Limerick Lake, south of Bancroft. The flag that marked the Limerick Lake Lodge ice-out contest tipped over at 8:51 a.m. Ruth Smith won the...