Potential Fantastic News and my Sister on Religion
My father went to the steam show today in Westminster (like a tractor show) at the Farm Museum. He knows a lot of folks that show off their tractors there (it’s actually where we bought our current one), and a lot of his old friends that he grew up with are there.
One friend in particular, whom I’ve been wanting to speak with regarding financing for this house, was also there today. My dad explained to her and her husband the situation, as they buy properties all the time as I mentioned before (though I can’t find the article) about how they helped an old farmer from losing his place.
Anyway, my dad mentioned our predicament to her, and she now has interest in buying all three properties and potentially letting us live here rent free if she gets them. This would be fantastic news, obviously, and we’d have to still do the maintenance on the place, but rent free.
On the same token, if she buys the 500 acre farm, I may also want to look at that for purchase or renting. I don’t know how all of that would work, if she’d sell it to us, if it’s even the type of property I want to invest in (I want something heavily wooded). But it could be an option.
It does ease my concerns a bit, but nothing is final, so I don’t want to get my hopes up too high.
In other news, my sister stopped over unexpectedly today to spend the night. We were playing with the pup outside and she started talking about religion. She asked about Wicca (even though I’m not Wiccan) and asked if it was possible to be Wiccan and Christian. She wanted to know what Wiccan’s believed, and to know if it was okay to believe in some of both.
I’m glad to see that she’s being open-minded, as I was close to her age (13) when I started questioning religion as well (I was baptist). I told her to just learn about different religions with an open-mind, and if she sees things that she feels strongly about that it’s okay to incorporate them into her own type of spirituality. I also made sure to reassure her that any choice she makes I would always support and she can always talk freely with me about it.
I’m glad she at least trusts me enough to confide in me about her spiritual thoughts. If she went to my mother with this, she’d flip her fucking lid.
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