Though when we awoke this morning at 4:30 am we hadn’t anticipated doing so – particularly because today was the longest of our 5-day motor trip to the Florida Keys – we have arranged next week for the removal of the oversized furnishings from our new apartment. Our housekeeper is primed to supervise. The movers are the same ones who carted the stuff from our former apartment to the new one only yesterday. As well we’ve harmonized with the property manager. By further resourcefulness we have asked our erstwhile advisor at Cadieux Interiors for substitute suggestions which we shall pursue upon our return.
The conduct of this cosmetic tumult unquestionably spirited the passage of what otherwise would have been a long and predictably tedious day. More importantly it unfastened an obstacle surrounding the new digs in the new property; namely, the inalterable restraint of diminished square footage. We account this modern construction truth as but an expected squall. One must in the face of such trifling impediment accommodate or perish.
In the result we were inexpressibly buoyed by having confronted the difficulty. The autumnal vistas of the Shenandoah Valley were commensurately brightened.
The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (excluding Massanutten Mountain), to the north by the Potomac River and to the south by the James River. The cultural region covers a larger area that includes all of the valley plus the Virginia highlands to the west, and the Roanoke Valleyto the south. It is physiographically located within the Ridge and Valley province and is a portion of the Great Appalachian Valley.
Nor was I other than animated by the customary transport traffic, poor drivers and road improvement operations. Through the maze and haze of it all we arrived late this afternoon in Harrisonburg, Virginia in time to gas up the car, get a car wash and settle ourselves in the hotel before “going down” for dinner. The dinner as well was a notable advantage; that is, estranged from both pasta and dessert. Such is the improving product of pragmatism!