Ok. Im sitting in Morris, Illinois - It's 3:02 pm.  I got here at 10:23 am.  It was 3 hours and 40 minutes before they even let me bring the trailer into the plant.  Why? Because they had too much product in their system and couldn't handle another entire truckload.  One wonders why they are ordering more product when they already have too much?  The only reason it's concerning to me is because in about ....ohhhh......2 hours and 15 minutes from now, I will be at the point of no return.

That meaning I won't be able to make it home tomorrow and will have to spend another night on the road for this trip.  The operator said he wasn't going to save the vapors - they reuse them - he was just going to burn them off in the flare so perhaps I still have a chance to get down to St. Louis area and get home tomorrow.  Maybe.  It's great for detention pay, but detention pay that costs you another day? You better be getting at least 10 hours of it to make it worth it - I will be around 7 hours.  The point is I could go on another run and make much more money than sitting around this plant - making less.  

Or, just be home, which would also be fine with me : )

On the property front?  Well, there is contention with the survey. The seller had until 2 days ago to send it.  They sent pictures of it without the field notes. The field notes are required and is written into the contract.  Apparently any lender selling land will require those field notes, it's nothing specific with my lender.  I have no idea where we are with that, my agent is dealing with them and I trust she will ensure that this issue is resolved in a timely manner.

Meanwhile, we have plenty of time for that, lol.  My lender emailed me today with an update on the appraisal: It is due by "August 2".  Today is June 24th.  Yeah, that long.  He said it would be 4 to 6 weeks and he certainly wasn't lying. Same as last property, there is a backlog of appraisals with every company that does them, it doesn't matter which one you pick. My lender tried that route and came up with nothing.  

The Bible says to be anxious for nothing, this is a test for me in that particular department. Kick back and chill is the name of the game, but time keeps moving forward.  I was looking at the survey, their measurement shows it 233 feet wide at the front.  My wheel measurer showed it at 197 feet.  Yes I'll take an extra 36 feet I just don't know if my measurer is inaccurate or what I might have done wrong, if anything?  If it really is 233 feet, that makes it an easy choice to install a 3rd driveway in the middle of it.  Because those driveways have to be around 20 feet wide.  I also saw that there is a 30 foot easement from the middle of the existing driveway - not a big deal going 15 feet towards the east, but now I have ample room to do what I need to do.  

But I guess I don't have anything until this deal closes. So, I pretty much have all the information I need to put to rest any ideas of things not being available such as water or access, that's all been dealt with as far as it can go without starting actual construction.  I haven't contacted ATT, I won't do that until I'm ready to lay electrical lines and that will be quite a while.  I'll have to pay an electrician or someone to lay all of that out - specifically, everything from the power pole to each pad's pedestal.  I am not going to try to figure that stuff out, that's something for the pro's to do and yes, I'll pay to get it blue printed.  I may do the work myself, I haven't determined that yet.

So what do I do for the next 5 plus weeks waiting for the appraisal? Nothing.  Look for other properties in case this one falls through.  Find other things to do. Try to take my mind off of it as much as possible.  That's probably not going to happen tho, lol.  

So what else is going on - well, the same thing with grandma, wearing out her welcome, doing things that are not really in line with house rules and basically, she needs to go home.  Hence, I'm happy I'm on the road until Friday - that's when they are leaving - I just want to be home Friday night, which is tomorrow, if at all possible.  

Umm, well one of my plants arrived for the pond. The pond is semi-set up.  I just got the thing filled up with water and the pump, UV filter and waterfall filter going on it.  Conditioning the water. There is still plenty to go before I put any fish in there.  Just it's hot outside and that setup is in the direct sunlight.  I"m getting a canopy to put over it to keep too much sun and junk falling from trees out of it as well.  The water warmed up a bit too much, I doubt my Koi will like that too much.  

The refrigerator stopped working yesterday in this truck.  I have probably $75 worth of food and condiments in there. I checked the fuse, it's fine but switched it out anyway - still nothing. Turned the truck off and then turned the batteries off to reset everything, nothing. So, all of that food and condiments will end up in the trash.  Which sucks, I'm not a fan of throwing food and condiments in the trash can, but, the stuff is already starting to smell. I'd do it now but there are no trash cans here to chuck it all in.  The mechanic claimed he would order a new one for it.  That's more likely a "when pigs fly" scenario.  

There's really nothing else going on.  I'm getting bored, either take a nice nap or watch something on tv.

G'day.