2 trips out to the property, replete with a short video while trekking through it with the Great Dane.  The purpose wasn't really to hike through it, but the first time I did I couldn't find the info I was looking for. Namely, the name of the power company serving the area.  There was a small badge on one of the poles that said "RAE COOP".  You look that up? You'll get zero results.  You'll get different power companies but none of them are the correct one - I know because I called all of them. 

I then called the county and they thought it should be SWEPCO - well I had already tried SWEPCO so I called them again. This time, the lady on the phone said she was looking at map and it definitely is not their territory.  

I made a second trip out to the property and drove up and down the street looking at the telephone poles - the only one that had anything on it was the aforementioned company.  I also went to the plant up the street - they are working off of some other power company, they had power run across the Interstate.  

So, we haven't found anything out.  I remembered a company that I hadn't yet called - it appeared well out of their territory, it's amazing how many power companies serve the east Texas area. They looked up the address of the little house 250 feet away and said, yup, that's us.  Finally!  

Upshur Power company to be precise, clear over in Tyler.  The lines look pretty small, but then I got home and looked at the lines serving all the houses on our street and the next street down - they're the same size and houses use more power than RV's so I'm at least fairly confident that there should be enough to service an RV park. Otherwise, I'm going to be finding out how much it costs to run from the plant up the street - they've got huge lines running to that thing.  

The point is there IS power there - 2 different companies apparently and if worse comes to worst, the power IS running, just it's about 600 feet away.  That could be costly running power poles that far, I hope it doesn't come to that. The water company name and phone number was much easier to find: it's listed right on the stakes they have all over the place.  I can already tell you it's going to cost a few thousand dollars to get them to run that line to m property - it is what it is.  

I can't say this is "behind me" per se, just basic information that has been eating at me for a while, I was determined to find out who is what today.  The dog walk was going down a lane - you can't tell it's a lane tho unless you look up at the skyline and see where the tall trees are. It's filled up with small trees and underbrush to the point that it's a bid - ridiculous but that's nature.  2 giant lanes are maintained, someone must bring a bush hog through there occasionally, that's the hunter with his stand sitting in the middle of all of that cleared out stuff. It's what I go by to see how the rest of it will look when it's all cleared out.

Oh, the real reason I went there was to see if the surveyors were out there, nope, no sign of them.  

Anyway, I was just sent another Brownsville run for tomorrow. It is getting late in the day, I didn't think she was going to send me anything.  But I'll definitely take it and it's second run so I don't have to get up at 3:15 am to get over there.  More like 5:30 am rise which is still quite early but much better than this 3 am nonsense.  I was really afraid - considering I'll be starting with fresh 70 hour reset - that I was going to get sent on a long run. Just don't want any right now.  In fact, I would have been okay with an Oklahoma run but this run is quite fine. Both of those runs take 2 days - brownsville is just 2 full days but of course the pay is superb. 

With that, I have a 4 and a 6 year old asking for music videos on the computer so I will help them out - a little, lol.