Winter 2019 Issue
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Cottage Life West will help you enjoy life at the cabin even more with fun and informative articles on everything from how-to projects to inspirational design ideas.
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What's Inside Winter 2019
Features
Hang On to Your Toque
Take a trip inside a glacier with adventure-loving B.C. cottagers.
Oh, Snap! 2019 Photo Contest Winners
Simply the best cottage shots of the year: loons, kids, and chicks; a dreamy night sky, a stupendous sunset; and, of course, dogs.
Good Things in Small Packages
Whether you call them ravioli or dumplings, they’re delicious. Fillings include pork, bok choy, mushrooms, walnuts, baked crab, and more, plus sauces.
101 Ways to Love Winter at the Cottage
Maybe the coolest bucket list you’ll ever read—fun and games, food and drinks, wildlife and wild activities. Ready, set, snow!
Departments
Waterfront
On the line: meet your Hydro One workers; Winter words we’d like to see; Reporter; a very cottagey board game; holiday gift guide; electric float planes are now a thing; wet and wild icicles; how super are superheroes?
Workshop
Pellet stoves vs. woodstoves; old-school and high-tech ways to find drafts; build this easy snowmobile helmet rack; know your nail guns: types and uses; synthetic cable vs. steel; tips for winterizing and storing your batteries
Cottage Q&A
How appliances fare in the cold; cottage heating options; what fireworks do to lake water; ways to save on hydro; do the northern lights make a sound?
Zim Weighs In
Good for you for winterizing your cabin. Now here are a few things that you may not have thought about.
The Fine Print
A de-icing device may help protect your dock or boathouse from the ravages of heaving lake ice and spring flooding. But there’s more you have to do after you install a bubbler.
Style Ideas
Classic A-frame cabin, check. Budget decor update, check. Adorable corgi companion, check. Plus: why the iconic triangular shape is ideal for winter.
Nature Scrapbook
The downy woodpecker drums up the love tunes in winter.
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