Lake Muskoka Cottagers: Add Name to Have Watershed Management Plan Fixed!

As I mentioned in the evening news brief last night everyone needs to CHANNEL their disbelief and anger of the Lake Muskoka 2019 flood collectively and quickly.  The PC Government of Ontario MUST UPDATE the current watershed management plan they are working from so its in sync with climate change and the new normal. Mega […]

20 Things Gravenhurst Needs

There is SO much available locally that i can honestly say I haven’t been back to the Toronto area to eat or shop since we moved almost 2 years ago.  That being said after a day of hustling driving an extra 30 minutes each way for dinner or to get something is killing me slowly […]

Lake Muskoka Flooding 2017: It’s Going to be Close!

It was a weird weather winter in Muskoka indeed. What was a winter wonderland promptly exited in advance of Family Day Wknd (mid February) and it’s been mixed bagged ever since. Now sitting on the ‘will it flood fence’ with mere hours until we find out we have to highlight their efforts this season, but first recall the […]

3 Quick Muskoka Holiday Makeovers

Recall my love for Annie Sloan’s chalk paint and all my furniture projects, then get a load of this brilliance. Painted Tree Sometimes you just don’t have room for a tree that eats 75 feet of ribbon (!!)  like mine did this season.  Odds are you’ve got twigs or branches outside the door, and some rope […]

Repainting Furniture? The One Ingredient You’ll Actually Need

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 […]

When Do You See Who Is Actually Behind a Website?

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 […]

What Would You Do If You Walked Into This Home For Sale?

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 […]