John has Retired

 

Today John retired! His office had a nice party for him and they shared lots of stories. They had a fun pie bar as part of the refreshments.  John isn’t a cake fan but likes pie so they had individual pie crusts in tins with fillings and toppings to make your own pie.  It will take a bit before it sinks in for him that he’s really retired.  He’s going to miss the folks he worked with – one of them he has been with for 34 years.  He is going to miss being able to help improve patients’ lives.  But he isn’t going to miss the daily grind and the mundane paperwork.  

Since the rent for our RV lot in Newcastle is paid up through November 8th - Election Day - we have decided to wait until that day so we could vote before moving to Sulphur.  In the remaining 11 days we plan to finish up appointments and seeing our friends.  Tomorrow we are going to take the girls and head to the eastern part of the State for a fall foliage drive.

We are elated that we are both now fully retired since we have so many places we want to travel to, but after spending over five years in the A-AAA RV Park in Newcastle, OK we will have to say goodbye to the owners, who we have become good friends with.  We also will say goodbye to some of the residents we have come to know well and all this will be emotional.  Living in this park has been so much more memorable than living in the home we had for 16 years.  We have met so many wonderful people and it is a place where folks look out for each other.  We will be back for short visits I'm sure.  So on November 8th we head to our new base - Cedar Blue RV Park - in Sulphur, OK where we own a lot in this private RV park.

The fall colors in the park and magnificent.

We have worked hard on our place at Cedar Blue to get it ready for us to spend 5-6 months a year.  We added a small enclosed room so we have more living space with a TV.  We also have a full sized refrigerator in it to store food and drinks.  In addition, we have a very large covered cement patio with a nice fire pit and outdoor seating and, yes, another TV.  Since we decided to spend storm season there instead of trying to outrun them, we also have an in-ground storm cellar and a storage shed.  Finally, we have a boat and waverunner on this property.  The boat ramp is only about a mile away!


Here are some photos of our place at Cedar Blue.

We have a pontoon boat and waverunner at Cedar Blue and are about 1 mile or so to the boat ramp for Lake Arbuckle.  As you can see we can pull our RV under a large cover.  We have a nice add-on room with large covered patio and storm cellar and gorgeous sunsets.  It's a great place to relax.  We are right by the Chickasaw National Recreation Area so there are lots of hiking trailers and plenty to see and do within the park.