Is the cottage wave becoming extinct?

July 31, 2007

I’m happy to report that the boat-to-boat wave is still de rigueur on the waterways around our cottage, but Sharon Donaldson, online manager at Cottage Life, suggests that’s not the case everywhere: “I go to my husband’s family cottage on a smallish lake in eastern...

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How to discourage uninvited cottage guests

July 26, 2007

Our cottage is on an island, and we don’t get many drop-in visitors (though I’ll never forget the couple that turned up on our honeymoon and stayed in the bunkie for their own romantic interlude, but that’s another story). I know from your comments, however, that uninvited...

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Mouse tales and tails

July 23, 2007

Thanks for all your mouse stories in response to my mousetrap post. My brave colleague here at Cottage Life has another one to share: “In the 35 years that my family has owned our cottage, I have never actually seen a live mouse inside the place. Until this year. For whatever...

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A hostess gift by any other name

July 20, 2007

It's Friday (yea!) and in a few hours many of us will be at the cottage. The smart ones are already there. And others, also fortunate, are getting ready to visit someone else’s cottage. If you are in that last group, what are you going to take as a hostess gift? Or should that...

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Canadian Safe Boating Awards

July 18, 2007

A note from the Canadian Safe Boating Council: This is a reminder to keep a lookout for Canadian Safe Boating Awards nominations during the summer and fall. By the way this is the 10th Anniversary. The forms and nomination categories are listed on the CASBA page. In short,...

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Beer and Barbecue

July 17, 2007

Once in a while, the Cottage Life editors take a break from hanging about in cottage country and do something really difficult – like attend a downtown lunch event to celebrate barbecue and beer. It’s a tough job, and yesterday assistant editor Liann Bobechko had to do it....

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Like mother, like son

July 16, 2007

When Cottage Life’s design editor, Leslie Young, took her two-year-old son Nathan to the family’s Lake Winnipeg cottage last week, he developed a curious new habit, presumably learned from the adults around him. By the end of the week Nathan had taken to suddenly clapping his...

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Over-development in cottage country

July 14, 2007

Yesterday was a dark day for a friend of mine. Not dark in the sense of hitting a rock in the boat and needing an engine rebuild. Dark in the sense of feeling overwhelmingly helpless to change the course of bad things happening. Ten years ago, my brother, a businessman and deep...

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And the good news is…?

July 13, 2007

“It’s a good thing we cannot see into the future. If I had known last week that everything from the CottageDaily blog, to the dog was going to break, I might have curled up into fetal position and stayed in bed until it was over.” These words come from Julie’s cottage...

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Cottage Dreams builds dreams

July 13, 2007

A new idea from a hardworking group: For immediate release Cottage Dreams launches new online fundraising program that helps cottage visitors say thanks and give back at the same time The Ripple Effect urges Ontarians to give a gift and start a ripple Haliburton, Ontario, June...

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