It is more than a little nice to spend a few days with a little bit of the family (actually the very littlest right now) at a cabin on a pond out of internet and phone reach, without electricity or plumbing. My grandchildren will no doubt mess up all those popular surveys of college freshmen classes– as they will know what an outhouse is and recognize the country morning sound of a shifting lid on a wood burning cookstove. We ate a trout for breakfast, berry picked, and saw a cow moose near the woodshed at dusk. The kids walked down the trail to the road before nap time on the last day, but we stayed to sweep up, do a few chores, and nap a moment in the after lunch sun. (Pearl was a little blue when it was just we two.)
