" My grandparents homesteaded the sandhills of Kansas with a very similar house and lived in it without additions until the kids started coming along. "

I visited some of my grandparents and great-grandparents old cottages last month when my mother had her birthday.

Old stone, wattle and daub cottages, the great-gp's house in much better condition which all is pretty much still intact than my gp's which has almost collapsed completely. So the older one is in far better condition.

But unlike J-T-G the place isn't think with moose, caribou and bear and definitely not Lake Trout!

Maybe a few rabbits, foxes and roos.

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J-T-G,

I think that Lake cottage might be a welcome change from Cairo. Have fun.