Saturday, September 26, 2015

the last chapter

(I don't know how many autobiographies are written last chapter first.) 


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We've arrived. After leaving South Carolina three and a half years ago, and moving again three more times, we've finally arrived. We're home.

Jenny and I are in the place that we want to be. It's much larger and spacious than I would have expected an apartment to be. All of our furniture fits nicely, including the 60-inch flat screen TV that we picked up along the way from Culpeper to here. 

It has a balcony that is no more than 100 feet from 444-acre Conway Robinson State Forest. I love looking down from our balcony to birds in the tops of trees below!

It has this fantastic "conservatory". Even though I know the word, I never knew what it really meant until my son-in-law Tim told me--"room of light". From this corner room with its huge windows on two sides all we see are trees, and a small pond with a fountain--a pristine oasis of serenity in a most unexpected place--a major urban interchange and development around it.

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