Covid was still shaping the landscape here in New Zealand, lockdowns, Delta evolving to Omicron, vaccines being pushed like they were our Lord the Saviour, the only thing to stop you dying and going to hell!!!! I was a LOOOOOONG way off being a conspiracy theorist back then, but I am also anti doctors and BS medicine and unnecessary pollution of our bodies, so I held off on getting caught up in that propaganda and started listening more to my trusted source of holistic doctors and what THEIR research into it all was starting to show.... very interesting to say the least....
I put my notice in at work in about April after landing a job at the Air Force base, dispatching and driving their fleet of vehicles, ceremonial big wig driving, ferrying troops around for their training stuff and started that in June. By November the mandates caught up with me there and by Jan 2022 I was a day away from being unemployed when the High Court overturned the mandates for Police and Defense Force, so I put my resignation in instead LOL. But let's back track a couple of months, back into 2021....
Blessed I was with a mother who's Scottish blood ran strong in her veins and she was able to save, and manage her money very well, and blessed that SHE had secured for my father in their divorce an Auckland property (they used to own a couple of flats in Auckland that got split up in the divorce) so both when they passed were freehold with Auckland properties in a property boom time, so when after they have both died the properties sell and get split up, it means I'm in the position to do what my mother only ever, sadly, dreamed of doing, but didn't complete.... I bought 20acres.
I sold my little puny 5 acres that had been home for 18 yrs and still wasn't finished LOL. And I bought 24 acres 7kms down the road, and one year and 10 days ago we made the shift, and the man shifted in with us.
So now rather than just horses and a pushy pig (and the cats, dogs and chooks of course!) we have some cattle beasts, ewes a ram and a couple of lambs that I bought with the property and room to finally let the horses stretch their legs and be horses, instead of having to keep moving tape up behind them to get grass growing back, day after day after day!!!
One of those meant to be things again. It was first on the market when dad's inheritance was just being settled, but mum's wasn't, and selling my place wouldn't have been quite enough to get into the bigger farm. Then it went OFF the market, didn't know what had happened with it, but cursed my luck and kept looking around for properties in preparation. Then hey presto, all timed to perfection with mum's house selling and us being able to access that money, it came back on the market!
I offered quick smart on it, knowing all the time it was mine, (the rapid fire number is the year of my birth, how could it NOT be mine?!) and knowing from the moment we came and looked at it, that it would have been mum's dream property too. Got Code of Compliance for my old place, found a cash buyer for that, and BAM! We were in! Just in time for Christmas, and on the one year anniversary of mum passing. She loved the place, I felt her here all the time!
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