55+ Retirement Community Blog

Speechless Sunday - Beatlemania Last night my wife Mary Ann and I went to Beatlemania Now!  My wife is a big Beatles fan and is the one who booked this concert. Plenty of other Beatles fans in attendance, covering probably three generations. It was actually fun and the singers were good. Ringo's ...

Cresswind at Victoria Gardens Here's a new community to check out near the Orlando Florida area. It is developed by Kolter and looks like a very inviting place for an active Florida retirement. The community has natural beauty and all the features of a top active adult community that us active ad...

Wordless Wednesday - Spring Gardening This is the community gardens at Newtown Park next to Park Place active adult center. I took this photo this AM while visiting the park. My friend Don just helped load and distribute all those bags of Cow manure to each plot a day ago. There is a big bin of m...

    Speechless Sunday - Patio in Early Spring What a nice day here in Atlanta today. It only got up to 61 degrees what was clear most of the day. Back yard patio needs a little work but you can see the Spring flowers pushing out new growth already.  A little debris removal, new mulch, and some fe...

  Wendy Smith has some very good ideas of how to fall proof your home. This is so important. I like the suggestion about replacing towel bars with attractive modern grab bars. Photos of those look very nice and you would never suspect they were grab bars. One of the biggest concerns as we age is ...

Selling My Baby - Roswell GA Home For Sale Homes are something like children, especially when you have owned one since 1980.  They are part of the family.  It may be hard to part with them when it comes time to sell. You see I hit the jackpot in Las Vegas in 1980 while on a business trip out West...

Speechless Sunday - I Love Brick Patios I love brick patios.  I guess that is why in 1980 when I bought this home I had the concrete patio replaced with this nice Chattahoochee brick patio.  After living there 15 years I moved to a larger home with a basement and kept this home as a rental. Now a...

My Personal Weltanschaung For Transition To Retirement One of the March challenges is to create our own personal Weltanschauung and as I continue to transition to retirement, I thought about the guiding principles and philosophies that guide me towards that goal. Retirement Weltanschaung 1. I bel...

    Speechless Sunday - Dry Rot Well it's not always a pretty picture. Especially when the inspection comes back with a lot of dry-rot and wood replacement photos.  That's why I had my painter go over this house that is to be listed this coming Friday.  Looks like he missed this dry-rot on the bo...

Jack O'Neal has some good points in this post titled: 10 Ways To Enjoy Retirement More Buying in a 55+ Community Contact Jack O’Neal at 602-418-3645 for  55+ Communities in Arizona. 10 Ways To Enjoy Retirement More  Take a look:  1. Do something different. Have coffee at a different coffee shop o...