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link to Summer Reading Recommendations – Light & Breezy Reads to While Away The Day

Summer Reading Recommendations – Light & Breezy Reads to While Away The Day

Summer is a perfect season to relax and enjoy doing nothing in particular for hours. It's so much easier to just sit when you have a good book in your hand - or in your ear (in audiobook format)...

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link to Top 5 Unique Gifts for Father’s Day (2022)

Top 5 Unique Gifts for Father’s Day (2022)

Even though my dad is no longer around for me to spoil on Father's day, I have some great ideas for things I'd do or give to him. Fortunately, I still have lots of dads and dad-like guys in my life...

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link to Beer Olympics: A Grown-up Beer Tasting Game

Beer Olympics: A Grown-up Beer Tasting Game

Updated February 10, 2022 What do you do on rainy days or in cooler weather at the cottage? You bring your games inside of course! That’s exactly what we did last fall when we had the sister...

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What to do at The Cottage in Winter

Did you think I’ve gone missing? Dragged off into the forest by a coyote maybe? Nah … it’s just winter at the cottage! This is the time of year when the snow blankets the ground and hushes the...

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link to New Compost Enclosure from Old Chimney Block

New Compost Enclosure from Old Chimney Block

Good-bye Charming Chimney This weekend I was glad to arrive at the cottage in the dark: I wasn’t prepared to see the cottage without that charming chimney. It was one of the things that made me...

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link to New Firewood Frame from Old Fence Frame

New Firewood Frame from Old Fence Frame

One of the many things we like to do at the cottage is re-purposing building materials. While we don’t go around salvaging items willy nilly, for the one day we might use them, we do sometimes...

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Who is The Cottage Wife?

Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we're going to build our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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