Jeff, hmmm... I really don't know how long it will take you. We are about 2.75 hours from Harrisburg or Wilkes-Barre... calculate for Williamsport if you are coming up 15, and add an hour. I have our "landing" reserved for you and Tyler if it's too cold for tenting. Right at the top of the stairs, where a little guy can be with his dad and either be in on the action or pull back if the geezers are too boring, but still be in earshot. My friend Joanne and her two kids will probably come and go, throughout, and Jackie's daughter with her two kids ought to be here some too. The neighbor's cousins and their kids could be around as well. So backyard boygames (and a trip to the pond that will seem SO BIG to him!) ought to be possible, and if you have play equipment Tyler likes that would be great. There's space to do art too so bring whatever Tyler would like to bring.

I wish you all could have seen our slip of a daughter, Artsy D Lemur, throwing furniture around today with me like it was sticks.

We created two sleeping rooms upstairs. One has three beds for people who need to be up off the floor, and two are mattresses that can be slid together. The other room has a good thick carpet and some nesting material to await those who bring their sleeping bags. There is also a cot and if it is warm enough, the pop-up camper which will sleep a couple and two individuals handsomely. Its foam mattresses are also available for backup in-house use in the dining room, and our couch is so nice I may sleep on it myself.

I am signing off now to go write the long post that will tell people what to bring and what they need to know, short of directions.

Directions are available via e-mail, and are long narratives describing what I have also provided as clickable Expedia map links. This is wild country driving in some sections. WATCH FOR THE DEER. I have a funny feeling some of you who have not said for sure you are coming may have gotten directions from someone else on the sly so you could surprise me-- so this is my chance to tell you, STOP IF YOU CAN, OR HIT THE DEER. Don't try to swerve, or you'll go airborne and have to be helicoptered to the head-injury center an hour away, where you will await your turn with the local drunk pickup truck drivers. Oh yeah. Watch for them, too.

We just had supper out on the front porch for the first time this spring. You know, I can't wait to see it full of Mudcatters.

~Susan