Woke up to a foot of sunshine!
I'm stuck in this sunshine and it's supposed to be 77 today. My 12 year vacation in California is drawing to a close. Really glad to be moving out of here. Every fiber in my being is against the way of life here.
The moving truck is here and the Mopars are already moved back home (except for a Valliant in the chassis shop). We will get to Oklahoma on Thursday to high temperatures of 66 so I guess we're bringing the sunshine with us. We're moving back to my childhood home and will be remodeling it. 3bd / 2 ba / 2 car garage. I lived in it from birth up until I shipped off to the Navy. There is also a 24x24 pad to build another garage on. My parents built a new home just a few properties away.
Going forward we will be able to spend every Christmas, every holiday, with family. We are very blessed and thankful. We have been learning a self sustaining lifestyle with a large garden and chickens. Now we will have the land to actually have goats and pigs too. My Brother in Law is a cattle rancher so I'm not even going to worry about getting beef. We will be preparing for a larger row garden and will plant some fruit trees when the frost leaves.
I am going to try out my old church. My parents stopped going there years ago but I watched a sermon on video and like the pastor. The kids will be going to my old school. My daughter has been doing home school all throughout high school and she is a senior now and wants to graduate from there. My son is in his last year of elementary. They did go to school there for Kindergarten (boy) and 7th (daughter). We had bought out income property in 2017 and the wife and kids lived in it for a school year while I was still in California fighting fires with the Hotshot crew. They then moved back to Cali when I secured Forest Service housing on the forest next to the wilderness in 2018.
I will really miss fighting the giant west coast fires. It's hard work where assignments are usually 14 days of 14-16 hour shifts. You really bond with your crew in that environment. The new job is with Department of Interior- Bureau of Indian Affairs. It is a Prescribed Fire crew but we will do Initial Attack on wildfires but there just aren't as many in Oklahoma. I will still be able to occasionally take "single resource" assignments out west during fire season so I'll be able to get my big ripper fix.
The Mopar scene is big in Oklahoma so my involvement in Mopars will only grow. My Dad has a few and will be building a big shop soon. Without a big commitment to fire in the summers I will actually get to go back to Carlisle. I'm really excited to go with my Dad and son. Three generations Moparin' together.
