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		<title>Dash for Diabetes in Kincardine this weekend</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/09/02/dash-for-diabetes-in-kincardine-this-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Lake Huron cottager Frank Gardiner for letting us know about this year’s Dash for Diabetes. All proceeds to go to University of Western Ontario/Robarts Research for diabetes and local area kids with diabetes.]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday night is for the cottage bears</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/08/30/sunday-night-is-for-the-cottage-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday is takeout night for the bears - that&#8217;s what DH called it after two consecutive Sunday bear break-ins at our island cottage and the neighbouring cabin. The first happened at the cabin, where our friends had left homemade chicken soup cooling on the screened back porch while they ferried guests in the boat back to the mainland. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muskoka fire claims landmark cottage</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/08/23/muskoka-fire-claims-landmark-cottage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cottage Life magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A cottage burned to the ground last week, and my heart broke for the owners. A few weeks earlier, seated in an old rocker on the massive front porch that ran across the front of the big house, I took in the expansive view over Lake Muskoka. Belle Isle was a grand old dame, had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ups and downs of Laser sailing</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/08/14/the-ups-and-downs-of-laser-sailing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cottage activities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve never capsized, you’re not trying hard enough. Words to live by, I say, but I also used to tell this to my students when I was a sailing instructor. And so the thought flashed through my mind when the gusty wind, that had my cousin Helen and I hiking far out over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good advice for avoiding bears</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/29/good-advice-for-avoiding-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We haven’t seen any bears around our cottage this year, but there was much discussion about the bruins with our guests last week—mostly to assure them that they were safe (the guests, not the bears). Then yesterday, Patrick Walsh, the editor of Outdoor Canada,  forwarded me a Ministry of Natural Resources fact sheet about avoiding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huntsville International Film Festival, eh?</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/28/huntsville-international-film-festival-eh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events in cottage country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to hand it to the folks at Film North, the new Huntsville International Film Festival. They’ve got a sense of humour. Check out the trailer below to see what I mean. How can you not love a festival that includes the “Trading Bay Trout and Grouse Club Golden Antler Award” for the audience-choice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite cottage ritual</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/27/my-favourite-cottage-ritual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Night sky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have just returned from a week at the cottage, where one of our favourite rituals is watching the sun set on the bay. Timing is everything: About half an hour before the sun goes down, we pile into the boat and head out into Georgian Bay. Once the big red ball starts to “sink,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Canadian Safe Boating Award nominations</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/19/call-for-canadian-safe-boating-award-nominations/</link>
		<comments>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/19/call-for-canadian-safe-boating-award-nominations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liann Bobechko]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I&#8217;m a safety ninny. We loaded onto the pontoon boat, adults and kids, including some guests to the cottage, and prepared for a tour of some of our favourite spots around the lake. As the kids put on their PFDs dutifully, I thought to myself, maybe I&#8217;ll wear mine too. Sure, I can swim, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MicroFIT rebates slashed</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/16/microfit-rebates-slashed/</link>
		<comments>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/16/microfit-rebates-slashed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cottage Life magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hydro charges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Cottage Q&#38;A in the current issue (Summer ’10), we explained the potential returns to be made by installing a solar photovoltaic system at your cottage. And we warned that “the sooner you can get your project started, the better,” because the fee the Ontario Power Authority pays for the power your system generates and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding God at the Cottage</title>
		<link>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/14/finding-god-at-the-cottage/</link>
		<comments>http://pennysblog.cottagelife.com/2010/07/14/finding-god-at-the-cottage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cottage Life magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events in cottage country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to receive this photo from Bonnie Bunting, whose family attends St. Peters-on-the-Rock church. She was inspired to send it after reading the article “God‘s Country,” by Jay Teitel in our June 2010 issue. “We live in the Kawarthas on Stony Lake and have been going to St. Peters-on-the-Rock church for generations,” Bonnie [...]]]></description>
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