>No TV or phone... are you sure you weren't at my house? :-) In the last couple months I moved to a house still in the city but fairly isolated thanks to a couple acres of wilderness.

hehe. We even had our 3-year old son and 8-year old daughter. They were so busy swimming, reading, playing and doing other activities, they did not even miss the TV, videos, computer games, etc. They were amazed at the end of the week when they realized they could do without all that.