Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition
93 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -A sometimes humorous look at technology at the cottage. Also known as the land of duct tape and deck screws. Where the power tool and the beer fridge reign supreme.
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Episode 43: 10W30 and painting the floors
December 27, 2010 17:38 - 12 MBIt has been a big weekend for wildlife outside the cottage. Including the 5-O'clock beaver. Now we need to send an exiction notice th the muskrat nesting in the floating dock.
Episode 42: Building a picnic table
December 27, 2010 17:38 - 14.5 MBIt has been a big weekend for wildlife outside the cottage. Including the 5-O'clock beaver. Now we need to send an exiction notice th the muskrat nesting in the floating dock.
Episode 41: The 5-O'clock beaver
September 20, 2010 23:17 - 10.8 MBIt has been a big weekend for wildlife outside the cottage. Including the 5-O'clock beaver. Now we need to send an exiction notice th the muskrat nesting in the floating dock.
Episode 40: Feeding the septic field
September 20, 2010 23:17 - 14.4 MBBruce has killed the septic field so its time to feed it. Bruce also dons Sarah's wetsuit to put in the water intake and the floating dock.
Episode 39: The Wireless Pepper Mill
July 10, 2010 14:38 - 13.7 MBCliff builds a new kitchen gadget just in time for BBQ season. The Wireless Pepper Mill! Bruce and Cliff have to borrow tools to get an early start on fixing the dock. Again.
Episode 38: The Potato Cannon
July 07, 2010 18:56 - 17.1 MBCliff builds a potato cannon, but not just any potato cannon. Thanks to a Pentium 4 cpu fan and a can of spray ether, this baby packs quite a punch and Cliff is already planning the thanksgiving dinner.
Episode 37: WiFi media stream for the Mousey-Spa
May 22, 2010 21:26 - 11 MBIts an early taste of summer at the cottage. I setup a wireless video stream for the mouse spa. Unfortunately our lack of connectivity foils us again.
Episode 36: Merry Xmas from Kottage-tek.com
March 13, 2010 19:15 - 19.5 MBA belated merry Christmas from Bruce and myself as well as all the gang at the cottage Karen did an incredible xmas tree as usual. We also did some outdoor decorating as well as sampling some bevies.
Episode 35: Smokes on the Wahta!
January 03, 2010 20:21 - 15.4 MBThis was mostly a finish getting ready for winter kind of weekend. We closed up the crawlspace vents and Bruce did another upgrade to the mousey spa to Revision 3.0. We also went for a drive through the Wahta Mohawk reserve and nothing says late fall colors like all the indian smokes signs at almost every driveway. Especially "Smokes on The Wahta".
Episode 34: The Women Folk!
December 26, 2009 15:16 - 13.2 MBThis time Cliff builds a bench for the back hall so they can sit down when they return from partying with the Barns Boys late at night They also get a visit from Mr. Plow while "The Women Folk" work on filling the kindling box
Episode 33: Flying Monkeys?
December 19, 2009 17:54 - 11.8 MBCliff gets out the big tools and makes a ski rack for the back hall. Several years late but better late than never The Mousey Spa gets an upgrade and CLiff starts training chipmunks to fetch beers.
Episode 32: I Find it Shocking!.
December 12, 2009 19:59 - 14.4 MBBill Whip gets a shock from the lake when standing in his boathouse. We also discuss expensive beer in Manitoba.
Episode 31: Floating Foundations and Bonfires.
November 28, 2009 17:33 - 16.4 MBOne of the neighbours builds a boathouse on a floating foundation 15 feet from the shore line. We discuss floating the bonfire on the lake since the boathouse is on dry land.
Episode 30: Finally. High Speed Internet at the Cottage!
November 28, 2009 17:32 - 19.8 MBCliff finally gets high speed internet at the cottage. He even does it without a postal code thanks to the Rogers Rocket Stick.
Episode 29: Dropping the big oak tree.
October 20, 2009 21:50 - 12.3 MBBruce finally lets Cliff drop the big dead oak tree. Its 60 feet high and has been threatening the cottage, the bunkie, and several power lines for years.
Episode 28: Helicopters and a flying dock.
October 20, 2009 20:46 - 18.5 MBThis time we talked about various ways to get up to the cottage and some of the stranger things we encounter on the way.. Oh yeah, The Barns Boys in the house again. They've taken a liking to our beer fridge.
Episode 27: Rattlesnakes, hemp beer, and the Barns Boys in the house!
October 04, 2009 13:43 - 13.6 MBThe Barns Boys discover we have a beer fridge. If that isn't enough we also have to deal with rattlesnakes!
Episode 26: Should we break out the sandbags yet?
October 04, 2009 13:43 - 11.1 MBPosible solutions to the flooding problems and we prove we are almost illiterate!
Episode 25: The satellite dish debacle!
August 15, 2009 19:00 - 10.8 MBMelting lake ice and the satellite dish debacle.
Episode 24: JABBA The What?
July 01, 2009 14:40 - 18.2 MBIt snows again so Bruce builds a snowman. Sort of.
Episode 23: Snow just "BLOWS!"
May 18, 2009 18:11 - 13.9 MBThe cottage road almost gets closed due to too much snow..
Episode 22: Tempered over burning witches?
March 29, 2009 15:21 - 13.5 MBCliff has to deal with a major ice dam on the roof which floods the back hall and Bruce actually fixes something.
Episode 21: The bird feeder wars
January 11, 2009 19:15 - 10.8 MBThe barns boys next door have definitely thrown down the gauntlet in the bird feeder wars. The boat winch was a nice touch but they have to get past the whole “fix the rope” thing and move up to steel cable.
Episode 20: They paved the road after painting the lines?
January 11, 2009 19:15 - 9.15 MBOf course we should have voted the municipal road crews as the turkey of the day for paving the road 2 weeks after painting new lines. I guess that was so they would get the paver down the centre of the road instead of driving it through the woods or something. Luckily we only worry about gravel and grading on our part of the private road
Episode 19: Log splitters! Man or machine?
December 28, 2008 19:50 - 13.2 MBBruce and Cliff talk about log splitters. Everything from high tech gasoline hydraulic, to low powered electric, and manual. Including Bruce’s right hand. In the end they decide to stick with the splitting maul. At least until they can convince the neighbor to let them use his new toy.
Episode 18: Never use a chainsaw on a ladder unless you name is Cliff!
December 28, 2008 19:49 - 12.5 MBCliff finally drops the big dead tree behind the old bunkie. If a tree falls on the bunkie everyone would hear Bruce’s insurance agent scream!
Episode 17: Its garden art baby!
November 28, 2008 23:36 - 10.1 MBWe help a neighbor re-assemble a sofa bed. Then we drink our way down the cottage road. Cliff breaks from tradition and goes for garden art instead of firewood when they see the boys next door have two axes stuck in a big log, but he soon gets over it.
Episode 16: Time for new shutters for the screen porch.
November 28, 2008 23:36 - 10.6 MBTired of hauling large flimsy shutters from behind the Bunkie in the fall and back in the spring, Cliff makes and installs new shutters for the screen porch. He also power washes the deck.
Episode 15: Is that a motor drive vanity mirror? Or just a “scamwhat” from huckster alley!
November 28, 2008 23:36 - 7.9 MBBruce and Cliff work on fixing the side view mirror that Bruce sheared off. They also think they have finally come up with a way to monetize this podcasting thing.
Episode 14: Talking about plumbing and water
November 28, 2008 01:43 - 8.96 MBBruce and Cliff talk about the water system at the cottage
Episode 13: Emptying the beer fridge. Again!
September 27, 2008 18:31 - 14.6 MBBruce and Cliff take another crack at emptying the seemingly bottomless beer fridge.
Episode 12: We are off to MacTeir wearing bug shirts and Muskol cologne.
June 21, 2008 18:30 - 11.4 MBIt's bug season in the muskokas and this year it is a triple threat. The mosquitoes have come in early to help out the black flies, and they have both called in air support from the horse flies. The usual bug repellants only seem th make the bugs angry until Bruce digs out the Super Muskol. Cliff finally gives up on chemistry and resorts to a bug shirt so he can burn off a tank of gas in the kottage mower.
Episode 11: Going green, or so I thought.
June 14, 2008 18:28 - 10.9 MBCliff thinks Bruce has installed an environmentally friendly roof but Bruce declares the gutters need cleaning again. This time the boys decide not to wait till the snow falls before climbing up onto the roof.
Episode 10: You Will Always Find Them in the Kitchen.
May 17, 2008 18:26 - 11 MBBruce cooks up some fettuccini Bolognese and a wicked Caesar salad while Cliff practices his new skills making the vodka martinis..
Episode 09: Flooding at the Cottage, and a Frozen Septic Tank.
April 12, 2008 18:24 - 10.5 MBAfter a cold and snowy winter the lake level has come up earlier and higher than ever. They survived the septic tank freezing up this winter and now mother nature decides to try to flood out the kottage. Laughing in the face of mother nature Cliff decides nothing is going to get in the way of him having his coffee on the dock in the morning. Even if it is under a foot of water.
Episode 08: Motorizing the Floating Dock
October 20, 2007 18:21 - 8.13 MBCliff is in the dog house for taking the boat to the marina for winter storage without taking the water line out of the lake. Since the paddle boat really isn't up to the task Cliff and Bruce hang a vintage Evinrude 8hp outboard on the end of the floating dock and it's anchors away.
Episode 07: The Mouse Spa and the Cottage Closet
October 06, 2007 18:21 - 20 MBBruce gets mad at Cliff because he seems to have an aversion to cleaning out the "Mouse Spa". The Mouse Spa is of course the ultimate in mouse traps and usually has a good collection of smelly things in it. No wonder Cliff hates cleaning this out. Bruce and Cliff also face the ultimate storage device, - The kottage crawl space.
Episode 06: The Christmas Moose
September 15, 2007 18:16 - 6.04 MBThe Christmas Moose arrives at the kottage.
Episode 05: Sweeping the chimney and visiting Frantic Frank's xmas party.
September 08, 2007 17:07 - 13.4 MBBruce and Cliff worked on the annual ritual of cleaning the chimney for the wood stove. This year they actually decided to climb on the roof for this task before the snow came. What a brilliant concept. They also visited "Frantic Frank" and "Environmental Anne" who help initiate Cliff into his official old-fart-phase.
Episode 04: WiMAX at the cottage? Not without a postal code.
August 25, 2007 16:43 - 15.8 MBBruce and Cliff finally managed to kill the chainsaw but not before running without a chain brake for most of the morning. They also continued the saga of hi-speed internet at the cottage. This time it's WiMAX. Or so they were hoping. Apparently it requires a postal code to work properly.
Episode 03: Hot water heaters and chainsaws.
August 11, 2007 15:05 - 14.6 MBBruce and Cliff replace a hot water heater full of sand with a new one full of hot water. What a concept! They also started to lay in some firewood for the winter and succeeded in almost killing the chainsaw. Who needs an emergency brake anyway?
Episode 02: Pouring cement foundations
July 24, 2007 23:18 - 6.85 MBBruce visits John and Kim at Pike Lake and gets recruited to haul aggregate down a 50 foot slope.
Episode 01: The floating dock
July 04, 2007 23:18 - 9.84 MBBruce and Cliff attempt to prepare the old cribb style dock to accept a new section of floating dock.