Darn! Missed that, Mets! (Good to see you here!) We weren't quite that primitive out on the "ranchette," but snowshoe-ing in, hauling our water for everything, including horse, sheep, geese, ducks, landscaping, and us (if one is frugal, a fmaily of four can do a lot with 250 gallons per week!), and heating with a woodstove provided plenty of experience to know that we'd never go that "rough" again. It was fun at the time and the kids loved it, but Rog and I just think we were young, in love, and crazy, though I don't think we'd ever regret having done it.

The Donner thing has already hit the tabloids. I was at the grocery store, today, and noticed a headline about a new "survivor" show in which the one who gets voted off gets eaten!