About…
Cottaging for me is all about connecting with people and experiencing life – whether it is teaching a 44- year-old mom to learn how to wakeboard for the first time, or watching my nephew master slalom skiing. I just enjoy watching people do things they didn’t know they could –myself included.
Cottaging is coming together and having these great moments:
It’s that first bite of sizzling hot steak as it comes off the barbeque,
It’s the first sip of an icy cold beer on a sweltering hot day.
It’s watching my kids navigate sticky flaming marshmallows into their mouths and consoling them when their burning black globs end up in the fire -(or worse, on Daisy, our Wheaton Terrier).
It is a love of life, people, food, pets and more.
Hi, my name is Julie Nelson. Now that we’ve met, just call me Jules. I spend my summers in the icy waters of Horne Lake, BC. A small narrow lake nestled in the mountains on Vancouver Island. I hang there from July to September with my two kids, Ben, Jillian, our dog, Daisy and my weekend husband, Bill.
I am a west coast cottager who grew up in Ontario. It’s hard for me to describe to natives here in BC what cottaging means to people “back east.” For those of us who are lucky enough to have experienced it, cottaging is an escape, a freedom, a birthright, a nostalgic fragment of childhood that lives on through our annual rituals: May long weekend –we open up the cottage; Friday nights we plot our escape from the city; Thanksgiving weekend we close up the cottage. We all have our traditions and we pass them down from one generation to the next.
I invite you to share your rituals with me at CottageDaily.com. Email your photos, your recipes, and your cottaging stories. Whether you summer on Gabriola Island, BC or Twillingate, Newfoundland, I am looking forward to hearing how you cottage.
Cheers,
