Cottages, Cabins and Chalets: An Owner's Guide for Guests

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

A brainstorming session, conducted as a friendly challenge to the
authors, couldn’t come up with even one relevant topic not covered in
this book. If others are going to stay at your cottage, what would you
want to tell them before they move in? Where to find the fuse box? The
property boundaries? The phone number for the local fire department ?
Where to pick blueberries? How to close up when their vacation is over?
The authors thought of all those things and dozens of others. Moreover,
they set up this book in such a way as to prompt you to fill in the
answers specific to your cottage.

The book is a framework for a write-it-yourself guide for the
preservation of both guests and cottage. The authors provide some
generic material (fire how-to, information on bugs and beasts, boating
safety, etc.), but mostly they provide headings on ruled pages.
They’ve done the thinking, you do the recording. Guests, whether of
the paying type or friends and family, will appreciate having all the
how-to and how-not-to, remember-to and please-refrain-from stuff in one
neat package. And writing it should be a fun project for a rainy day at
the cottage.