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CL IX: Closing Up ·
For those of us who live North of the 49th parallel, an essential feature of Cottage Life is the sad process of “Closing Up”; acknowledging that you’re just not going any more till Spring. We did, but remain ambiguous ...
CL VIII: Building Things ·
In the first couple of years after you acquire a cottage, you spend a lot of time adding stuff to it. Since fewer and fewer things come pre-assembled, and if they did you wouldn’t want to take them on the boat put-together, that means you have to build them. This Cottage Life piece is, weirdly, mostly a plug for a barbecue-maker’s publishing talents; but there are some pretty pictures, including a failed eagle ... [2 comments]
Junepix 7 & CL VII: Mountain Climb ·
Attentive readers of the Cottage Life series will recall that one of the motivations for acquiring a strip of Howe-Sound waterfront included my discovery that I was raising a city boy who needed a little more exposure to the outdoors. So, last weekend he and I climbed a mountain together ... [3 comments]
Junepix 4 & CL VI: Monster! ·
The June-pictures and Cottage-Life threads intersect in a photograph of a stiffly-serpentine beast that appeared on our beach. With a true story about a real serpent ... [3 comments]
CL V: Rain and its Culture ·
There won’t be any more Cottage Life pieces till next year, because we spent American Thanksgiving, when you can’t get anything done anyhow, closing the place up. We found out why they call all those great big trees a “rain forest” ... [3 comments]
Cottage? ·
If there’s anyone reading this who’s felt some empathy with the recent flurry of Cottage Life posts, and who’s from around here: there’s another waterfront property just around the corner from ours for sale; near the north point of Keats Island (Wikipedia, map, keatsisland.net). Serviced, a couple of hours from downtown Vancouver (boat only). Not perfect, has issues, needs work. But pretty unique, I think. The reason I’m plugging this is I’m hoping someone with kids gets the place; ours could use some playmates. If you might be interested, contact me and I’ll put you in touch with the vendor.
Update: It’s been listed. [1 comment]
CL IV: Peace ·
Most of these Cottage Life posts are going to be on the cynical side; with luck, good for a laugh or two. But there is a reason we do this, and here it is. With a furniture recommendation ...
CL III: Semantic Gaps ·
I do intend a Cottage Life post soon that’s not about maintenance, but this isn’t it. I thought I was trying to fix the water heater, but in fact it became a four-way semantic mapping conundrum ... [1 comment]
CL II: Water-Displacement Forty ·
Cottage Life, unless yours is a mansion with full-time staff, is mostly maintenance, with a few intervening breaks for nature or beer. I’m neither deft nor mechanically gifted, but the right industrial chemicals can make up for that ... [7 comments]
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