Things they are a changing

Well it has been too long since my last post. Lots have happened since then. For one the weather is finally getting cooler. Health seems to be getting a little worse. Doctors got me on new meds and seeing some more doctors. Just keep running back and forth to OKC to the doctor, bout all we get done anymore. My son Ethan, the last of 4 kids has enrolled in OU and is living on campus in Norman. Miss him a bunch, but also miss all his help around here.
A big change is fixing to happen. Molly and I will be moving to Arapaho OK. Really miss Ethan on this move. I will be moving next door to the house I grew up in as a kid. Since dad is in the nursing home for over a year now, and mom doesn't drive. I figure we could help get her to and fro and give my oldest sister some help in that department. Also it will be nice to be close in case something happened to mom we would be right next door and will be checking on her more. Plus will get to see dad more. It is hard trying to get down to see him from where we are at now. I am also looking forward to being close to many of my old and all time friends that I don't get to see very often.
When we get moved I will have access to the 5 acres I grew up on. I remember feeding chickens and milking goats and taking care of other choirs there as a child. I am looking forward to doing the same now. Dads health keep him from doing much the last few years and the place has gone down alot. I plan on trying to clean it up and fix it up some. Molly and I want to get the yard turned back into a yard with grass and flowers for mom. Trim and clear lots of the old trees that have died and limbs fallen. I also hope to get the out buildings back into fair shape. It takes me about 4 times longer to do stuff than it used to, work a little rest alot. But I figure in time we can make the old home place look good.
I am also excited with the fowl I have raised this year. I will be moving chickens and pens etc. as we go. There are already pens there but most need work. I have really expanded my Cornish bantam flock. Very good quality in whites, dark and white laced red. These little birds grow fast and will provide us with much meat and they lay a fairly big egg for a bantam breed. I also have all my oriental game. I raise 6 breeds of oriental game fowl that are all on the rare breeds list, plus the Cornish bantams. I am looking at some grants online for people that raise this kind of birds and if I can qualify hope to get some grant money to help restore some of the buildings for fowl production.

We have also purchased a Nubian doeling and will probable get up to 5 milking does once we get settled. I have had milk goats off and on since I was about 14. I have found also on the Internet some available grant money in small scale dairy goat operations. 
I know its lots of big ideas and big dreams for a couple of old cripple folks like me and Molly. But I have wanted to homestead (for lack of a better term) for most of my adult life. Get off the grid, get back to simple and and slow. Molly she is game and is looking forward to gardening, canning etc. I think the move is great. Help mom out, and slow down our pace some. Time will tell, and I will keep you posted.