One thing about living off grid and off-road is the isolation factor. I never thought of this as a problem before. In fact, I considered it a benefit in our move! When we lived in town, our door was never answered if Kyle wasn’t home. Part of our moving this far was to get away from the noise and distraction of city life. It is completely different out here, though. With so little human noise, we are always glad to have guests. There are also only two reasons for people to knock on our door; either they own a cabin in the area and know (or want to know) us, or they have an emergency. In either case, I am happy to answer the door here.
It probably helps that there is no pretending you aren’t home in 300 square feet with smoke pouring out of the chimney!
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to read. That makes reading counterproductive to the whole “put the phone down” idea right now. 
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