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Contents note continued: Of Doorbells, Docking, and Mishaps in the Night -- A Cottage Dunking -- Those Great Cottage Days of Summer -- A Tear for Summers End -- My Big Brother -- The Funeral Wreath -- The Cottage --- Life at the Lake -- The Lake -- All for a Blueberry Pie -- Cottage Prepping -- The Chair -- Tools of the Trade -- Muskoka Time -- Sounds of the Cottage -- Cottage Top Ten -- The Bookshelf -- The Perfect Day -- A Taste of the Highlands -- The Ants Go Marching -- Cottage Fashion -- Summer Reflections -- Cottage Questions -- Wholl Stop the Rain -- A Room with a View -- In the Eye of the Storm -- The Canoe.;Machine generated contents note: In the Great Outdoors --- On Nature -- Good for the Goose -- The Robin Returns -- Everyone Out of the Water! -- Dangerous Critters -- Bit in the Ash (By a Flicker in the Fire) -- The Sword of Damocles -- The Pine Marten -- Chirpy Strikes Back -- I Heard a Robin Call My Name -- The Seven Day Itch -- The Frog Whisperer -- Twilight at the Cottage -- Being Green -- A Beaver Tail -- Wet and Wild --- Cottage Fun -- Fifty Shades of Cottaging -- The Newest Rage -- Within the Cottage Wood -- The Cottage Fleet -- Dressing Up for Kayaking -- Slow Boat across the Shield -- The Hobby -- Who Stole My Balls? -- Upside Down on the River Noire -- The Ninja Warrior -- Shaken, Not Stirred -- Diving for Treasure -- The Cottagers --- Family and Friends -- Fathers and Daughters -- Lifes Stages -- On Golden Pond -- My Friend Danny -- The Dock -- Cuts and Bruises -- Grandmothers -- The Return of Inspector Gadget -- The Boyfriend Cometh.;HUMOUR. In the sequel to Cottage Daze, James Ross is back with more tales from the family cottage! Organized by natures changing seasons and containing sections covering nature, family, activity, and the cottage, Ross combines wry humour with a genuine love for adventure and respect for the natural world - although the local wild animal population can try his patience. Rosss anecdotes are full of good spirits and sound advice, whether he is describing a visit from his daughters special friend (The Boyfriend Cometh), the tricky practices of boating (Dressing Up for Kayaking), or encounters with wildlife both big and small (The Frog Whisperer). This book is the perfect companion to the time-honoured tradition of wilderness family getaways.

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Copyright James Ross, 2014

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

Editor: Michael Melgaard

Design: Jennifer Scott

Epup Design: Carmen Giraudy

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Ross, James, 1960-, author

Still in a daze at the cottage / James Ross.

Sequel to: Cottage daze.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-2177-7 (pbk.).-- ISBN 978-1-4597-2178-4 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4597-2179-1 (epub)

1. Vacation homes--Humor. 2. Country life--Humor. 3. Nature--Humor. 4. Ross, James, 1960- --Family--Humor. I. Title.

PN6231.C65R687 2014 C818.602 C2013-907427-9 C2013-907428-7

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and Livres Canada Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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Dedication For Alexander Duncan Ross Sandy 19582005 You are missed - photo 4
Dedication

For Alexander Duncan Ross (Sandy)

(19582005)

You are missed!

Contents

Good for the Goose

The Robin Returns

Everyone Out of the Water!

Dangerous Critters

Bit in the Ash (By a Flicker in the Fire)

The Sword of Damocles

The Pine Marten

Chirpy Strikes Back

I Heard a Robin Call My Name

The Seven Day Itch

The Frog Whisperer

Twilight at the Cottage

Being Green

A Beaver Tail

Fifty Shades of Cottaging

The Newest Rage

Within the Cottage Wood

The Cottage Fleet

Dressing Up for Kayaking

Slow Boat across the Shield

The Hobby

Who Stole My Balls?

Upside Down on the River Noire

The Ninja Warrior

Shaken, Not Stirred

Diving for Treasure

Fathers and Daughters

Lifes Stages

On Golden Pond

My Friend Danny

The Dock

Cuts and Bruises

Grandmothers

The Return of Inspector Gadget

The Boyfriend Cometh

Of Doorbells, Docking, and Mishaps in the Night

A Cottage Dunking

Those Great Cottage Days of Summer

A Tear for Summers End

My Big Brother

The Funeral Wreath

The Lake

All for a Blueberry Pie

Cottage Prepping

The Chair

Tools of the Trade

Muskoka Time

Sounds of the Cottage

Cottage Top Ten

The Bookshelf

The Perfect Day

A Taste of the Highlands

The Ants Go Marching

Cottage Fashion

Summer Reflections

Cottage Questions

Wholl Stop the Rain

A Room with a View

In the Eye of the Storm

The Canoe

Foreword

I sit on the covered wood porch of our log cabin in a hewn-log rocking chair with a Siberian husky asleep at my feet. On the header above the front door is a sign with the Gaelic words Croich Na Rosach : This is the refuge of the Rosses. For forty years now it has been my familys place of escape; a refuge and our sanctuary.

Beyond the cottage porch is the lake, whose waves break gently on our rocky shoreline. A song sparrow sings from an overhead branch, my robin hops about looking for worms, and a pair of loons paddle about the bay hooting softly; but for the quiet murmur of the birds, the soft breathing of my dog, and the sounds of the water, there is silence.

Timelessness, isolation, and simplicity create our space. Here we have time to think, time to read, and plenty of time for contemplation. We go down to the dock and stare vacantly over the water. We perform insignificant tasks without conscience nagging us with guilt. Our lives seem to slow down, we have time with our kids that we dont have at home. We read with them, play a board game, go fishing, or just talk. More amazing, perhaps, is that they also find time for us. As musician Jimmy Buffet would say, we are living here in three-quarter time. If our clock stopped, what would it matter?

This place has been my summer haven for most of my life, and wherever the changes of my life have taken me, this cottage has remained my spiritual home. It is a place where I always return. It has a long familiarity in which every tree and rock and building comforts me. Every sound reassures me.

This book of stories, in the same spirit of my first collection, Cottage Daze , is about life at my log cabin cottage on an island in the middle of a northern lake, about the people I share it with, and the animals and nature that add depth and humour to our lives. In writing my stories I have never divulged the location of our own island cottage. This is from no desire to create mystery it would be easy enough for the curious to discover where I live rather, in the description of my cottage and all that goes on there, the reader might find the likeness of their own such place. That is my goal: my cottage is your cottage.

Welcome and enjoy this is life at the cottage!

Prologue: Back to the Cottage

The sun is shining. The forecast had been for thunder showers, high winds, and cool temperatures. Granted, Environment Canada has been known to be wrong at times, but they never seem to err in a positive way. I jump from my bed and dash to the window, pulling back the drapes. The sky is blue, not a cloud in sight. I am greeted by a beautiful, warm, brilliant morning. What a day to open the cottage.

My wife had risen early and put breakfast on bacon and eggs, toast, and coffee. I holler for the kids, Lets get up, time to go!

Theyre already up and out, says my wife. Getting things loaded in the truck. Sometimes they make me so proud. I head out myself and whistle for the two dogs. They come running and leap into the back of the pickup, slipping quickly into their kennels and settling down for the drive.

The journey to the cottage passes quickly. My wife stays awake and talks to me. The children watch the passing scenery out the window. I am not even treated like a remote control for the truck stereo. No, Go to disc four, skip this song, or replay that song. No, Turn it up, I cant hear! Not even any yelps from my son directed at his sisters to, Shut-up and quit singing! In fact, we listen to old John Denver CDs, and everyone sings and laughs. Before we know it, we are at the lake.

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