Word: rustication
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This doggy hotel isn't unique. From the rustic to the sybaritic, here are eight other spots for dogs--and sometimes their humans--to vacation in good company. LEARNING NEW TRICKS...
Every year owner Lonnie Olson welcomes more and more families with kids. The two six-day sessions run during June, July and August at a rustic 80-acre camp near St. Helen in wooded northern Michigan. Costs start at $650 for one person and one dog bunking together. Virginia Venning of Chicago, and her Sheltie Peaches were scouts together last summer. Says she: "It gave me the chance to live and play with my dog off leash in a safe environment...
People hankering for a peaceful, rustic existence should probably curl up with Edna O'Brien's splendid new novel Wild Decembers (Houghton Mifflin; 272 pages; $24) before moving to the sticks. Things are not as pleasant in the tiny western Irish village of Cloontha as the scenery suggests. Michael Bugler has arrived fresh from a sheep farm in Australia to claim the land left to him by a deceased uncle, and the newcomer's presence stirs up the villagers. Especially agitated is Joseph Brennan, whose ancestral farm borders Bugler's property. Brennan tries to be neighborly, but his true spirit...
...Less than enthralling. I am not a captious man, but this wine’s heavy nose was so striking, the experience was almost enervating. The bouquet possesses an unsteady, if protean structure: alternating undertones of honey and pencil lead emanate. Though not excessively rustic per se, I sense a sour, dense, deep tannin with a persistent, yet subtle, inner, unpalatably concentrated fruitiness. It leaves an unpleasant emptiness. In a sense, the finish is a bit jejune...
...bureau wants students majoring in "range management" or "natural resources," but with a little luck, you might manage to make that neuro-bio concentration sound more rustic...