Today I leave the St. Olaf Campus for the last time as an employee of the college. It’s a little surreal to call myself retired but I look forward to the next season of life.
I became curious as to how old my mother was when she retired so I looked back in our photo albums and found pictures from our family retirement party for her. I have such a different perspective now of that time in her life…she was alone (my dad died right before his retirement in 1974) and my mom lived another 22 years after her retirement.
She was 64 years old when she retired and so am I! Somehow it seems to be another confirmation of this step!
Good luck with your retirement Valerie.💐 Guess you will be as busy as all retired people are…hihi🤓 Looking so much forward to see you soon😘, have started planing what to bring in my suitcase👗👒👙👡👚🤣, hope you will have warm and nice weather for us🌞😎
We’ll try our best to have good weather while you are in Minnesota. Today is perfect…cloudless, blue sky and temps in the 70’s.
Enjoy every year of your retirement.
The flowers are gorgeous. Is yellow your favorite color?
No, yellow is not my favorite, but I loved getting the roses, no matter what color.
And a friend happened to send flowers too and they were yellow…by coincidence.
Cheery color for retirement I’d say!
And a very colorful bouquet came to my desk on Thursday, from my supervisor who is out of the country…