Plucky staff who work at the station are visited once a month by a postman who collects weather data, and a helicopter which delivers food, water and wood for the stove each autumn.
The air is clean, stars are visible in their spangled glory at night, and in the fall and winter a roaring fire in a potbellied stove is complete bliss.
They have lived since July 4, 1968, in the same middle-class enclave of Lake Jackson, where the streets are named for trees, flowers and fauna (the Pauls live on Blossom).
So that I don't bore you with unnecessary details, I am just going to assume that I already have the following stored procedures in the database ready to go
She is going in the spring when the opera comes, and it will be perfectly splendid, if Mother only lets me go, " answered Meg, cheering up at the thought."