How many times have I mentioned my mom’s guacamole? And how many times promised to give up her secrets?
Well, today is the day. With the last holiday weekend of summer looming, the time – and hopefully your avo – is ripe.
We will be whipping up at least one bowl of this at Keats View Cottage [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Patsy’s To-Die-For Guacamole
Posted in cottage, food, recipes, tagged Best guacamole recipe, cottage recipes, food, guacamole, recipes, Sunshine Coast on August 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bee Busters Inc.
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, family, garden, household tips, tagged fish and bucket wasp trap, tips for dealing with wasp nests, wasp problems on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bad year for wasps. Everyone is saying so.
We have had a very persistent hive in the garden. With guests and their pets and kids, coming and going, we had to get right on it and stay on it. We tried hanging various tasty meaty treats over a bucket of water. At our cottage in the Kootenays, a dead [...]
Homemade Effective Fruit Fly Trap
Posted in frugal tips, household tips, tagged easy fruit fly trap, frugal tips, fruit flies, fruit fly trap, homemade fruit fly trap, household tips, kitchen tips and tricks on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Its that time of year again: So much great produce is available that it begins to pile up on one’s kitchen counters.
Someone . . . well, me actually . . . left half a lime on the counter for a few days and suddenly, we were awash with fruit flies. Pesky little things! Lee Valley sells a [...]
A Solar Shower for the Cottage
Posted in Sunshine Coast B.C., cottage, garden, gardening, landscaping, planters, tagged cottage garden, cottage life, Gibsons, Keats View Cottage, outdoor shower, solar shower, Sunshine Coast B.C. on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was back in May of 2008 that Mary Emmerling first gave me the idea of rigging up an outdoor shower, which she suggested should have mint planted all around it. The idea captivated me, but I never really raised it with Cottager, since we had many more important projects, in the vein of actual repairs, [...]
