October 2005 Issue
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What's Inside October 2005
Features
Play It Again
Who better than your brother-cum-architect to build a modern Muskoka cottage that echoes the best of summers past.
Just a Little Batty
Meet Robbie Goulden, inventive genius, master storyteller, and zany creator of The Bat Shack on Georgian Bay.
Different Stokes
Not your grandpa’s potbelly, the new woodstoves are sleeker, cleaner, and more efficient.
Door with a View
Pretty and practical, there’s a screen door fit for every cottage entrance.
Aw, Shucks
You’re smiling, aren’t you? It’s time again for the nostalgic fun of a traditional corn roast, the season’s favourite feast.
Special Package: Take a Hike Why Don’tcha?
Bushwhacking 101
If you can’t see a trail for the trees at your cottage, cut a private path.
How Not to Lose It
Your way, that is. Use these tips and your wits to stay on course. Read this article online - click here.
Get in the Geocaching Game
There are secret stashes all over cottage country, waiting to be found.
You Are Here
GPS units have a sense of direction, even if you don’t.
Kidding Around on the Trail
Make a walk in the woods fun for little hikers.
Departments
Puttering
Can’t do without a cant hook; Stop rooftop moss; Old grill resurfaces as a table; Tankless hot-water heater; Teeter-totter plotter; lattice tire grip
On the Waterfront
Rock star of another sort; gator caper on Wolfe Lake; shake-and-shine flashlight; solar-power bargain hunter; Simcoe cottage moves into history; the doorframe chronicles; tackle on loan
Cottage Q&A
Whether to rake or leave them be; the quota for trapping minnows; ewww! A stringlike parasite busts out; low-flow toilet guidelines; cottage pump springs a leak.
Cottage Finds
On the hook: Handy holders for your cottage clutter.
Solutions
Digs in blankets: Take the chill off your old cottage with new insulations. Four options for a retrofit.
Cottage Watch
Scene-stealer? Smog-cutter? What will wind towers do to cottage country?
Nature Scrapbook
Picnic at the beech: Bears and others eat their fill of this tree's rich fall harvest.
Weekender
The fishing-gene pool
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