It was thoroughly enjoyable. I could see the consternation and frustration on the authors face as he tried to follow, to track, to trace the lost things, and his wife, exasperated, explaining. The short, descriptive sentences and comparisons blossomed it more as a piece, a story to follow, than just a 'human interest' bit. There were things to follow, to be done, a daily routine, not just a scoop-and-grab-from-the-heroes bit with some side commentary.
There's no back-story, I guess, it just is as it happens and as it was thought. The first person, quaint nature of the narrator is humbling and honest- 'not for the first time' admits his faint pride in being able to accomplish things, a bias which would not show through in a mere 'interest' story.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you.
But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
-Richard Adams, Watership Down.
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