Our First Week at our New Home Base

Our first week at our new home base – Cedar Blue RV Park – has been wonderful.  The beautiful fall weather has given us sunny days in the upper 60s and low 70s and cool nights.  We are out in the woods near Lake Arbuckle and beside the Chickasaw National Recreation Area so we have a wonderful view at night of the starry sky and moon.  We had a great view of the super moon last night with no city lights or clouds.  It was very bright.

We have used this past week to get a bunch of small projects done.  Our satellite dish has been on a tripod in the drive area taking up parking space so we relocated it to the upper part of the canopy over the RV.  Thank goodness we had a ladder with a long extension as we had to put it at the top of the post so the RV didn’t hit it when we drove it in and out.  Now we have room for both cars and the waverunner side-by-side with room for parking a couple of more cars if we have guests.  We charged up and moved some of our motion lights to give us better lighting at night so we can see to walk to the door of the RV without being in the dark.  The gates in the fencing around our porch needed some tender loving care so they would open and shut better and John took care of them.  The hammock needed to be rearranged and leveled out a bit so we had a better view of the sunsets and the TV on the porch.  John and the girls love sleeping on that.  In the fall it’s nice when you can snuggle up with pillows and a blanket in the cool evenings.  The yard needed mowing!  Not only did we need to mow but the knock-out roses still have roses on them.  Imagine that, roses and mowing in November.  Each time we came to Cedar Blue this year there was always 3-4”of rain in the rain gauge and after being gone this past three weeks there was another 3” in it.  The last project was to stabilize a table that John built for us last year.  He built a nice table with fold down sides so we could use it in our add-on room as a side table or for eating with visitors or playing games and doing puzzles.  However, after it was done, we realized the base and legs were a bit too narrow so it could tip if too much weight was put on one of the folded-out sides.  So, John got after it and built some bases for the legs to give it more support.  I’m in the process of staining those and then they will be secured to the legs and we will be all set.  We look forward to some cards, games and meals around it with visitors.

This past week we made a drive to Ardmore to get the things to fix the table and drove back via Turner Falls.  There is a great lookout on Hwy 77 that overlooks the falls.  When we arrived, we found they have put in a zipline that’s about 777’ long that goes out over the Turner Falls area.  We are going to have to try that out.  You can ride single or double.  It’s called the Turner Falls Zipline - 777 Zip.

This week they are predicting continued great weather and I hope we can take the girls on some of the trails in the Recreation Area.  There are so many pretty areas for walking and hiking here.  John has also assured me that I’m not to worry about him getting bored in retirement and to help that assurance he has purchased a PS4 (Play Station 4) to entertain himself.  He has been looking for a good gaming system that doesn’t require him to play online games yet has games that will interest him and this was the one.  He’s hoping to find out the virtual reality accessory might be worth the purchase.  We’ve never had a blue ray device until now so we can now watch blue ray movies on it as well.

For those interested in visiting us at Cedar Blue when we are here in the spring and fall you can make a day trip OR there are hotels, cabins and houses to rent, a bed and breakfast, as well as camping available.  We have some camping spots in our park that can be rented for $30/night with full hookups as well as camping in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area.  The Buckhorn loop is very near us (about a mile away) on the east side of Lake Arbuckle.  There is plenty to do in the Sulphur/Davis area.