Shortly after I wrote the post called We Never Know the Worth of Water, my Mom and Dad bought us a rain barrel. Not only did they buy it for us but they went out to the cabin one evening and set it up for us. They bought it at Canadian Tire on sale for $104 … More The Rain Barrel: The Worth of Water, Part 2
I am not a seamstress. I have, in the past, sewn a few pieces – an Elvis bowling shirt, curtains, Halloween costumes – but none of them was perfect. While I have the basics skills of sewing and I have all the necessary tools for it, the reason I’m not fabulous at it is that … More Making My First Slipcover
We first noticed the leak in March when we went and spent three days at the cabin in the winter. It was -23 and we stoked the cook stove until it was a broiling 25C inside our wee cabin. And that’s when we heard it. The incessant <drip, drip, drip>. The snow on the roof … More How to Fix a Leaky Roof When You Have No Money and No Know-How
…until the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, 1732 Have you ever looked at your water bill? At the bottom of mine, there is a section called Consumption History. It shows your consumption of water in cubic metres and then the number of days for that billing cycle. There are one thousand litres in … More We Never Know the Worth of Water
You know those items of clothing you have hidden in the back of your closet? The ones squished to the back of your drawers? The shirts that are a little too short or tight to wear respectably in public? The yoga or sweat pants that have started to pill from extensive wear because at the … More A New and Loving Home: Cottage Clothes
I’ve been tossing the words cottage and cabin around interchangeably since buying the property in December, never really sure which one applies best. I actually looked up online specific definitions for these words, curious as to which would apply to our tiny paradise best. As it turns out, there aren’t any hard and fast … More Camp, Cabin, Cottage or Lakehouse?
One of the most exciting things about this cottage is that it has a great skeleton. And that’s it. The rest is up to us. The previous owners left us some decent furniture but nothing on the walls except broken coat hooks, brown and gold decorative plates on the wall and a Bob Ross-esque painting, … More Project #1: Folk Art: Making the New Look Old
Every time I tell someone about the cottage, at some point, I almost apologetically say, “It’s small. But it’s a place to get away.” I’ve heard others say it as well. “I have a cottage/cabin/camp/homestead as well. It’s small but it’s on x amount of land.” Or “It’s small. But it’s enough for us.” As if somehow small … More A Tiny Life is a Happy Life
I could call this post “Nobody Sits Down Until All the Work is Done” or “Lessons on Sustainability” or quite honestly, “How the Hell Did Pioneers Settle This Country???” At our cabin, there is no heat and no running water. And because it’s still only March, all the available water is still frozen. There is … More Pioneering Is Hard Work
Can winter please be over now? Not that I’m not enjoying the beautiful, fluffy white stuff. It makes the roads kind of snotty (as my Dad said), but in all honesty it hasn’t been an extremely cold winter. (Of course, maybe last year’s seven weeks of -35 C has changed my perspective of “cold”.) Bob … More The Wish List
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