Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle

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James Ross. Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle

Cover

Dedication

Contents

Prologue: The Writer’s Life

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Epilogue: My Happy Place

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Prologue: Back to the Cottage

In the Great Outdoors — On Nature

Wet and Wild — Cottage Fun

The Cottagers — Family and Friends

The Cottage — Life at the Lake

Epilogue: It’s Closing Time

Copyright

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For my folks, Alan and Joyce,

for instilling in me a love and passion for cottage living.

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I remember our driftwood fires on the point, where we sang and laughed, told ghost stories, and exchanged intimacies — so now, whenever I see bonfire embers glowing, I am brought back to those days. At the end of the night, when silence had fallen over us, we trudged back to the cabin, feeling our way past the roots and rocks of the dirt trail.

Now I watch my children with their siblings, cousins, and friends, running through the same forest that I ran through as a child. They find the same hideouts and forts. Their imaginations lead them into similar games. They become pirates, knights on a quest, warlords, or frontiersmen. They paddle to nearby Sawdust Island, claiming it as their own, guarding it against all trespassers. They pack a picnic lunch, and we give them a cowbell to clang in case of trouble.

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