Sunny, warm, calm. Perfect for swimming, except for the need to avoid getting masses of shadfly molts in your teeth.

We now have neighbors—Kerrys on the far side of Pinebox, and Tysons on our north. So, we have unaccustomed noise coming from both sides. The Kerrys must have guests with children, and the Tysons pretty much spend their entire cottage time vacuuming and mowing. What is almost the entire year one of the quietest places on the planet is no longer quite so much.

But our neighbors are temporary phenomena, both Kerrys and Tysons as ephemeral as shadflies.