October 2008 Issue
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What's Inside October 2008
Features
Drop-Off Zone
Create a multi-function storage space in an underused area of your cottage.
The White House
Vintage finds, a touch of whimsy, and a truck full of paint make for a simply stylish retreat.
Happy Trails
How a well-planned path takes you from here to there quickly, safely, and treading lightly.
Secrets of Presqu’ile
Smugglers, squatters, and shipwrecks: The MacKenzie clan has seen it all in six generations on Lake Ontario.
Flip It, Fold It, Wrap It, Stack It
The pancake isn’t just for breakfast anymore—from basics to crepes to clafouti and more.
Departments
On the Waterfront
My favourite trophy wall; Have sailing school, will travel; Don’t Ask Zim!; Army bar-cart builders; Goats on the roof; Sanctuary bunkie; Animal groups; Reporter; The eco-shed; Our six-word cottage memoir contest
Puttering
Games table. Download the template for this project; Manual log splitter; Household heating; Ladder safety; Combination bolt lock; Shore shrub-staking; Native plants; Oil-tank trailer; dinner board
Cottage Q&A
Burning garbage; defibrillators; air intake for woodstoves; deer deformity; ice scours.
Cottage Watch
You’ll be getting your updated property assessment any day now. Don’t panic. Here’s how to handle it.
Solutions
It sneaks in quietly, invisibly, imperceptibly. The cottage hazard you can’t detect and the essential device that can.
Nature Scrapbook
Travellin’ blues: The jays are movin’ on.
Weekender
Lesser-known cottage-closing traditions.
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