Where we live

I got the grass cut today after my last visit with the hand therapist. My fingers are doing much better, but I think the road to reasonable usefulness is still quite long and not so straight. I took some pictures of the house today and the local countryside from two streets over. The little village of Mount Sidney lies on the western edge of the Shenandoah Valley, pretty close to halfway between Harrisonburg, home of JMU & EMU, and Staunton, home of MBC.

Route 11 runs north and south right through the middle of Mount Sidney, and is known as the Valley Road. This road is a road with much early American history associated with it. It began as the Great Warrior Path stretching from New York to the Carolina's. Later early German and Scots-Irish settlers used the "road" to emigrate from Pennsylvania to the central Shenandoah Valley and south through the Carolina's into Georgia, about 800 miles.

During the Civil War, both the Northern and Southern armies used the Valley road for troop movement and supply route.

More info than you were looking for, right? Anyway, Route 11, as it is known locally these days, continues to carry a lot of local traffic and is the main access to many little towns and villages along the way.

Mount Sidney only has one church within the village, but several around the outskirts. There is only one blinking traffic light which is always yellow for the Route 11 traffic. There is only one place to get gas, a Texaco station where you can also get a varity of essentials. There is a very small strip mall with a few businesses. There is one manufacuring facility that employees people in a couple of shifts. No schools or medical facilities. But it is a nice place to come home to.

Here are some pictures of our house and Daniel our dog, and the view from just two streets over. When I said we are on the edge of the valley, I wasn't kidding.



We are only visitors in Daniel's home.