Life Changes and Retirement Fire Service Office Decor and Giddy Goose is Back

 

Terry has officially retired from the Fire Service after 50 years.  That meant that his office at work with all his fire stuff needed to come home.  Since we have downsized through the years that posed a challenge on what to do with all his fire collectables.

Terry and I share our office area.  He has half and I have the other half.

When we painted his side of the office we used steel plate wallpaper on half of the wall.  Steel plate is what is on most fire vehicles.

The steel plate wallpaper just gave a little character to the wall.

I love this piece I gifted Terry years ago.  It is the Serenity prayer fire smoke on the picture and then old fire hose to frame it.

So I have the other half of the office area.

I have my storage cabinet and my wrapping paper, cards stored on this side of my office.

I was wondering if I will have enough wrapping paper when needed lol!!!

Ok funny story about this.  The "Porch Goose" has come back and is all the rage now.  Remember having a porch goose that you dressed for different occasions on your front porch years ago.  
Well......
That trend is back.  

With this said I ordered three geese off of Temu for myself and my two daughter's porches.  The description said they are 27 inches tall and the picture on Temu was the goose on a front porch.  

Here's the funny part this is what they sent me!  

I was excited when I got the huge box on the porch.  I opened that big box that would fit three 27 inch geese and found a smaller box with these three inside.  
OMG!!!  I had to laugh.  Seriously!  That huge box had these three little geese inside.  

I normally do not order from Temu but the geese were sold out on Amazon and other sites.  Beware when you order from Temu lol!

According the kitschy trend the porch goose is back!  This is what they should look like!!!

Ok Linda (Life and Linda blog) I could so see this outfit on a goose by your backyard pool oasis!

You can order outfits all over the internet now.

I had a goose years ago that I did dress and kept on my porch.  Somewhere along the line she came up missing.  

 I ordered a new goose.  She likes to watch out my office window to the flowers until her Chicago Bears outfit comes.  Yep! hopefully she will bring good luck to our Chicago Bears this season.

We are big Chicago Bears fans in this family.  Every Sunday is get together Sunday Funday to watch the bears game.  My daughter's and I will have our Chicago Bears Goose out on the porch for the season.
We are planning on a Super Bowl win this year!

Since we did not have a lot of space inside for Terry's collectables.  Some are now hung in his man cave garage.  

This helped to decorate his garage area.  There is still so many antiques that could not fit and are in storage.  50 years of collecting fire department items old and new!

With Terry always having a Fire Chief Car we did not have a second car.  Now with being retired we had to go this past weekend to find him a new car.

Wishing all of you a wonderful start to the new week.
Hugs,
Kris

Ahhhhh memories.  This is a picture of when Terry dressed our oldest daughter up in fire gear at her school when she was in the 4th grade.  Time does really go quickly.  Jen is now 43.   I keep telling her to quit getting older it is just Rude!!!!  Terry is now well we won't get into that!!!