This morning was a joke.  They had revised the list a few days ago with a large number of properties that had been pulled.  In other words, people paid their back taxes and got their properties off the tax lien sale list.  Good for them, tho, I'm not exactly happy to see people losing their homes because they for whatever reason couldn't pay their taxes.  

I am not  a proponent of property taxes excepting when you first buy the property.  Sales tax, yes, everlasting tax where the government can take it away from you even if you have the entire land paid off

NO. That's tyranny, IMO. 

Anyway, when they finally got started - half an hour late - they announced a lot more properties had been nixed off the list, including the short list I had of properties I wanted.  I looked through the entire list of what would be sold and saw nothing that fits the bill besides properties that were going for more on the starting bid than I had to spend.  

So I left.  No sense wasting more time there.  

I was sent the worksheet for a run tomorrow: Brownsville. Yes, thank you.  I have yet another new dispatcher. This one is new to the company.  She's being overseen by Sheila, tho, so that's a good thing.  

The bad part about the trip tomorrow? I have to be at the plant at 6:00 am.  That means I have to get up - at 3:45 am at the latest.  That's just too early, those make for very long days.  It always ends up with me waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep.  Almost without fail.  

Anyway, left that place, went to Kroger's got a ham, etc etc etc, went home and - found another property I hadn't seen. It's only 8.7 acres, but it is covered with trees and it is only a few miles away from my house, yet, it's outside city limits.  It is also owner financing.  So, even tho I was busy getting ready for tomorrow's trip, I took a run over there. 

Beautiful property. At least at the entrance.  A road on the edge of the property, that's all gas easement.  Drove down it and found a mud pit, decided to gun it and plow through that, only to come up to another, much larger, mud pit that I knew I would get stuck in if I attempted it.  No matter, it was going down hill and into the gas company's excessive apparatus used for gas wells.  This whole region is filled with this stuff.  All over the place.  

If I were to do that property, it wouldn't be using that road.  I'd plow a road right through the center of the property and have RV pads on either side of the road.  This property is narrow but long.  But I don't even think the county is going to allow an RV park in there. It's a very nice area with ranches and houses, beautifully kempt properties, more of a residential area.  The other problem is the almost 8 grand per acre price tag.  Tho, for a nicer area, may be worth it, depending on the owner's terms - this is an owner finance property.  

Then the realtor sent two properties - 37 and 44 acres respectively.  Well over-priced but they've been on the market for half a year.  I might go take a look when I get back, but they'd have to bring the price down 25-30k for me to consider it.  Oh, wait, one of the properties doesn't have water, so that's a nix.  Wells are expensive to drill and I am not interested in going that route.  

So, today was a bit of a disappointment in not even getting to bid on anything. Keep on looking, yes. Enthusiasm beginning to wane, yes.  

Texas is doing away with the mask mandate in this state. Like masks? Great, keep wearing them. I despise the things.  More importantly, tho, is that business will be "allowed" to reopen to 100% . I find it amazing how quickly citizens in this country were conditioned to the amount of government control over their personal lives as what happened during this pandemic and people thinking any of us that don't want to wear masks are somehow evil.

I rarely wear them anyway, only where they are forcing people to do so and I really have to be there for whatever reason;. 

I'm getting sleepy. Been trying to get into go-to-bed mode.  Its only 8:40 pm, but yes, it's time to hit the hay.  If I could only sleep through the night, I"d get 7 hours of sleep and would be fine in the morning.....