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Activities for rainy day blues

Well, The Globe and Mail’s Leah McLaren had a few things to say about cottaging in Muskoka (including that she loves it), but at least one Muskoka Blogger wasn’t happy with her assessment of rainy day cottaging. What do you think? Do you like rainy days? Do you like a whole month of rainy days?? [...]

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Barbie doesn’t live here

We don’t have an original (or any) Barbie at the cottage. It’s too bad, really, because we have lots of other stuff that is far older than the dear middle-aged 20-something, who was born in March 1959 at Mattel Inc. headquarters. But even if Barbie Mark 1 had found a home in one of our [...]

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Inspiration in a cottage photo

“Ahhhhhh early morning at the lake.” This from our acting show manager Kevin LeGallais who shared a photo sent to him a few weeks ago by his friend Becky. We could all use some inspiration as the temperature dives, snow piles up, and power goes out in cottage country, so I thought I’d share them [...]

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Why cottagers are happy

Penny is away at a conference, so her editors are sharing some blogging responsibilities this week. Guest blogger: Martin Zibauer, deputy editor In a recent issue of Scientific American Mind , Kelly Lambert, chair of psychology at Randolph-Macon College, reports that working with our hands can fight depression. She lists knitting and installing a new light [...]

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Hurricane Ike comes to the cottage

What a storm. It rained pretty much all weekend at our cottage, both inside and out as a result of a leaky new dormer window. Sunday afternoon my girlfriend and I gave up and drove home in her car. The boys, who always prefer to drive down first thing Monday morning, stayed to battle hurricane [...]

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We have mice at the cottage

The big, fat, furry creatures looked like perfect cartoon caricatures of their species when they turned up in the traps we set out earlier this week. You hate to bring such healthy-looking specimens to their demise, but at some point, as with beaver who will flood acres of property given the chance to over-populate, it [...]

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An Ontarian’s take on Alberta cottaging, er, cabining

Guest blogger: Martin Zibauer, Deputy Editor I was in Alberta a few weeks ago, on a fun little road trip to a few places where people have cabins. It was my first visit to the province, which is stunning in parts and hospitable all over. As far as I could tell by driving around, Alberta [...]

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This Canadian flag has quite a pedigree

Guest blogger: Blair Eveleigh, associate editor Sharon Donaldson, our online manager, received this e-mail this week from Cottage Life Forum member Leta Lee, who cottages in Nopiming Provincial Park in Manitoba: “Have a great Canada Day. I am actually going to find my flag and hang it up. I got it about 4 years ago [...]

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