June 2003 Issue
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What's Inside June 2003
Features
A Grand Design
Down to the stud walls and back up again, this turn-of-the-century cottage gets a heritage makeover.
The Natural Garden: Part 2
Ground Rules – The dirt on planting a beautiful cottage garden.
All Creatures Great and Small
A cottage-country wildlife rehabilitator helps needy animals get back on their feet again.
Picking Up Steam
A family’s passion for fire-powered steamboats spans three generations.
The Back 31
We believed the swamp existed for the animals, and birds, and us – and we wanted to keep it that way. An investment in uselessness.
Hanging Out
Suspended from porch rafters or a free-standing frame, our cottage swing really rocks.
Grilling Gourmet
Six BBQ masters share favourite recipes guaranteed to make you flip.
Departments
On the Waterfront
Getting some kicks at Thunder Beach; making Cottage Dreams possible; the truth about ketchup and mustard; BBQ hotline; Trixie Belden returns; the classic clothespin
Puttering
Silencing squeaky floors; the all-seeing stud finder; ladders that’ll take you to the top; the fire extinguisher dissected; evicting eave-dwelling bees Great Inventions: Soggy-doggy ramp; dock jack
Cottage Watch
Mossy growth and cracks in the concrete mean your dug well is vulnerable to contamination. What to do when you see the warning signs.
Cottage Q&A
How birds stay bug-free; tracking aerial spraying; keeping ducks off the dock; the skinny on lake suds; removing Rover's ticks; identifying Crown land.
Cottage Coup
Jake's illumination genie: An off-grid cottager's wish is granted with the magical Aladdin lamp.
Cottage Finds
Recycled rustic: Nature inspires these Gananoque artisans.
Cottage Designs
Light fantastic: Three way to banish dark cottage corners.
Nature Scrapbook
Night's light brigade: Each species of firefly has its own inner glow.
Weekender
Wild thing, make my heart sing.
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