Your comment alone is enough reward, my friend. I truly appreciate it.
My mother's family lived in a hilly area where the closest neighbor was about a mile ago. I remember visiting those places as a kid and finding the prospects of such way of life both scary and fascinating.
They practiced Frost's idea of good fences good neighbors. That isolation, though, never made them less hospitable. They were the most generous people i knew.
I, too, dream of living a rather pastoral life.