February 21, 2012
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 in the snow. DH said Mitch’s curly coat picked...
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February 16, 2012
Serious concerns to keep in mind when you stop the ice from forming
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February 15, 2012
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 race, so I wanted to give a shout-out to the...
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February 14, 2012
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 ground. We broke them up quickly, but what a...
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February 10, 2012
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 call it?
Is it still an outhouse? Or a biffy,...
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February 7, 2012
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 the controversy over off-leash dogs, especially...
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February 3, 2012
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 Georgian Bay in 1968; meeting people, such as...
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February 2, 2012
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, after having reached 250,000 applications. The...
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February 1, 2012
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 strokes.
At the cottage, I don’t go out in the canoe...
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January 31, 2012
Our front lawn is dug up; actually, it‘s dug down—about 20 feet—as the town works to replace water pipes. There is a giant backhoe on site, huge pilons, a concrete wall closing off our access to the next street, and about eight burly men on the job in fluorescent orange...
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