June 2013 Issue
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What's Inside June 2013
Features
97 Per Cent True
Guy Maddin is known for his fantastical films. Now here’s the tell-all tall tale of the filmmaker’s Gimli cottage—Marilyn, moonwalks, and all.
Total Loss
Cottage fires are on the rise. Find out the most common causes and how to protect your place.
The Island that Time Forgot
For most of the year the population is zero. Then Cockburn Island becomes a thriving cottage community, but one with a twist.
Are You Sitting Down?
Straight talk about composting and incinerating toilets: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the ick factor.
Smoke It! Grill Guide
Where there’s smoke, there’s deliciousness! Use your own grill to get the best flavour ever, with recipes for pulled pork, brisket, ribs, chicken, and fish, plus spices, sauces, and rubs. Mmm…
Departments
Waterfront
Follow a barn quilt trail; update on Crown land leases; Reporter; Board game trivia; Man vs. leeches; A new book you’ll love; How cottaging changed Neil Young; Cottages for people with developmental disabilities; Fast-track dredging for low water levels
Puttering
Tips for how to hang things, and using French cleats; stuff; two tool vests tested; ball vs. globe vs. gate valves; flowerpot turned outdoor wash basin; tune up your screen and storm doors
Cottage Q&A
Earthworms; horsehair mattress; first-aid kit; runoff in outhouse pit; I/O engine noise
Real Estate
Rental agreements are complicated. What should be included and what shouldn’t?
In Like Zim
I hate the drive to the cottage, and there’s one thing about it that really gets to me.
Nature Scrapbook
One sweet tree: Large-leafed, roomy, and tasty, basswoods feed and house many forest dwellers. They’re good for carving too.
Weekender
Yoga gone wild? Don’t be fooled…
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