Hey, friends. Welcome back to the Old Fashioned On-Purpose Podcast. This is the second episode in

this season, all about unconventional homesteading. So last episode, we talked about how to homestead

with babies and small children. And now we're going to the other end of the spectrum. And we're

going to talk about how to homestead during retirement or after retirement. And this is a topic I

have had a ton of requests for. And I've been waiting to find the right person to talk to about

this. And I found her. So welcome, Kathy. I'm so excited to have you on board. Thank you. I'm

very excited to be here. Yeah. So I feel like this is a topic that is much needed, but not often spoken

to. And it's this idea of, you know, can you continue to homestead when you, you know, you're

reaching the golden years or after retirement? And what does that look like? You know, I have a lot of

especially women in my audience who maybe wanted to homestead when they were younger. And now they're

in their 50s or 60s. They're just now having the time to pursue this dream, but they're not sure

if it's possible. So I know you have a lot of wisdom on this topic. Well, I hope so. So if you,

wouldn't mind, can you just kind of give everybody a little bit of a background of your homesteading

journey and what your experience has been? All right. We actually moved to Oak Hill homestead in

Oklahoma, 17 or 18 years ago. We were just short of 50, 50 years old. We moved from Michigan. So

the weather was quite different, quite different, but that was what we wanted. We wanted warmer weather,

not as much snow. We got a lot of warmer weather. I'm not real crazy about the heat, but that's how it

goes. No place is perfect. Yes. We started out. We still had two children at home when we were

homeschooling. So we had a lot of hands-on labor, we say. The property was pretty rundown. It had

fences and buildings that were falling apart. So we took down a lot of buildings and we put up a lot

of buildings that put in a lot of new fences. And I really do recommend that as soon as you are

able to do this to get the hard work done first, while you're physically able to, you're young,

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