I had intended to tell you which Muskoka town I decided to call home the day after I told you who I was and suddenly we're midway through November (though it's hard to tell based on the weather we've been having!) That was my view Wednesday afternoon; so heavenly compared to the sea of boxes I sat in a week earlier when I went back to Toronto to [...]
Muskoka - the land of DIY projects, and many of them not intentional! It's probably one of few places in the world where the hand-me-down capita, in both properties and contents, exceeds any other place in the country. Why? I can't answer that but every single person who has spent time here has some personal connection to the area, and with that comes buildings full [...]
In the online world faces always help. So who am I? I am a life long Lake Muskoka cottager who has been extending what's known as 'cottage season' since I had my drivers license! Always the business lady, even when I had a job where I had to go to an office downtown, one could find me on Hwy 400 in the wee hours of the night commuting [...]
RUN right?! It constantly amazes me how some people live, but even more so it amazes me how one would think that it would be ok to list this home FOR SALE like this! My rose-coloured glasses they may be, but where you may see where others see grime, dirt, garbage, grossness all I see is getting them out and my hands on the situation. Wouldn't [...]
We've been so crazy busy lately that I forgot that we had tickets to the Gravenhurst theatre, thankfully remembering a few hours shy of the curtain call! Pretty happy that I did because we spent two hours in a suprisingly non-packed theatre watching four extremely talented actors/tresses execute a brilliantly clever and witty theatre production called THUMBS. Having never stepped foot inside the Gravenhurst Opera [...]
That's right cottage season 2016 is upon us and the ice-out date pools are taking shape. Facts: Top of our dock level sits at 384" In April 2013 the water peaked at 402" (ie major flood) In April 2014 the water peaked at 389" (still flooded) "Water levels generally begin to rise on their own through November with higher precipitation. The MNR however begin a larger winter [...]
