I wrote about what I am going through at home a few months back, taking care of my mother and making sure she is happy and comfortable is something I have been doing for many years now. Since I am an only child and she is divorced I am really the only one that can take care of her. I indeed handled her care through hiring help or taking care of her myself when the care givers were not available.
Late December my mother suffered from a stroke and had to go to the emergency room, she stayed at the hospital for about a month as they did scans on her to figure out what was wrong. They diagnosed her with having a stroke, something that happens commonly with the elderly.
She was discharged to a skilled nursing facility after the hospital and they attempted to get her strong again, though she was in a lot of post stroke pain and was unable to make a recovery. For about a month she lived there but was slowly declining. And about a week ago she passed away.
As much as I miss her, I am thankful for the fact she is no longer suffering. And I can also go back to dealing with my own life and moving ahead.
Due to her passing, I no longer feel a need to stay in Georgia. When I moved to the South over ten years ago it was to get my mother closer to her family, though I am not close to them and without my mother here I do not see any reason to stay. I have some of her business to wrap up, but once that is done I can close the book on this chapter of my life.
Thinking about moving to Virginia, they just legalized Cannabis and working on retail framework right now. They also allow home grow, so all of that is quite appealing as we have no such freedoms in Georgia.
Also where I live now has become quite busy, the small town I moved into ten years ago has expanded a lot and I am no longer comfortable in such a place. A big reason for me leaving Los Angeles was to get away from dense populations, though it would seem where I live now has become alot like a big city.
My Honey Bee situation has changed as well, the land where I was keeping them is now going to change ownership. And I will no longer be able to have my Honey Bees there. So I may need to move my hive home to where I live and keep it there until I move. And figure out what I want to do when moving across state lines. I will probably have to start over again in a new location once I move.
Honestly I have not opened my bee hive since the fall, every time I have returned to this location it has been too cold to open them and risk hurting their brood. So I am unsure of the state of the current hive, will need to check on them when we get some warm days where it is not raining.
As for moving to Virginia, I may have a friend joining me. has been a good friend of mine for almost ten years. And he is quite interested in living on a home stead, so its something we are considering as well. It would be great to have him around for when shit gets tough out there. From the snow or whatever else mother nature throws at us. Living in a rural area you must really depend on yourself or have a strong friend and family network.
Until then I am looking forward to moving to a property with more land, and more seclusion and to have more freedoms to do what I want. So it will be a fresh start for me, and for my significant other. We have a lot of prep work to do for moving, and uncertain of the timeline yet. But is is a plan to get over there by the time or a little before the retail legalization framework and stores are in place.
Looking forward to starting a bunch of new fruit trees, and bushes. With more land I can get the most out of them without being crowded. And hopefully with Honey Bees they will all be pollinated well. And I will start some Cannabis grow projects when I live somewhere its legal. Maybe I will even do some home repair videos if the place we move into needs some work.
It will be quite the journey moving across multiple state lines, but I think its for the best. Though may be difficult at the time, once we get through it we will be in a new place and hopefully somewhere that makes me more happy than where I live right now.