Latest Muskoka Podcast Episodes
Episode 31: Floating Foundations and Bonfires.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2009 17:33One 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!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2009 17:32Cliff 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 20, 2009 21:50Bruce 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 20, 2009 20:46This 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!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 04, 2009 13:43The 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?
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 04, 2009 13:43Posible solutions to the flooding problems and we prove we are almost illiterate!
Episode 25: The satellite dish debacle!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - August 15, 2009 19:00Melting lake ice and the satellite dish debacle.
Episode 24: JABBA The What?
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - July 01, 2009 14:40It snows again so Bruce builds a snowman. Sort of.
Episode 23: Snow just "BLOWS!"
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - May 18, 2009 18:11The cottage road almost gets closed due to too much snow..
Episode 22: Tempered over burning witches?
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - March 29, 2009 15:21Cliff 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
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - January 11, 2009 19:15The 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?
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - January 11, 2009 19:15Of 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 grave...
Episode 19: Log splitters! Man or machine?
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - December 28, 2008 19:50Bruce 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!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - December 28, 2008 19:49Cliff 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!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2008 23:36We 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2008 23:36Tired 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!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2008 23:36Bruce 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
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - November 28, 2008 01:43Bruce and Cliff talk about the water system at the cottage
Episode 13: Emptying the beer fridge. Again!
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - September 27, 2008 18:31Bruce 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - June 21, 2008 18:30It'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...
Episode 11: Going green, or so I thought.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - June 14, 2008 18:28Cliff 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - May 17, 2008 18:26Bruce 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - April 12, 2008 18:24After 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...
Episode 08: Motorizing the Floating Dock
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 20, 2007 18:21Cliff 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
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - October 06, 2007 18:21Bruce 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 de...
Episode 06: The Christmas Moose
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - September 15, 2007 18:16The Christmas Moose arrives at the kottage.
Episode 05: Sweeping the chimney and visiting Frantic Frank's xmas party.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - September 08, 2007 17:07Bruce 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 of...
Episode 04: WiMAX at the cottage? Not without a postal code.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - August 25, 2007 16:43Bruce 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.
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - August 11, 2007 15:05Bruce 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
Kottage-tek - MP3 Edition - July 24, 2007 23:18Bruce visits John and Kim at Pike Lake and gets recruited to haul aggregate down a 50 foot slope.
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