Wednesday was not, unfortunately, a day where I got much of anything done work-wise on the property.  I ended up driving to Longview, eating breakfast at Waffle House - getting the runs from that and ending up in the restroom at Home Depot. After that lovely affair was concluded, I bought 2 chainsaws and several other items property related.

Coming back to the property,  a county road crew was out there working on the road right in front of the property. No clue, I didn't ask them to come, probably all the "important" people that live along that road get their way when it comes to keeping things maintained. The pervasive opinion from those in the county that don't have such privileges is that the roads are horrible. 

Yup, there are definitely horrible roads in the county, probably as there are in any county.  Counties don't generally enjoy giant budgets where they can do whatever they want or even need. I picked the right road to do this on, that's what I can say lol.  Regardless, I decided to wait to dump the diesel fuel on the hornet's nest. If it didn't work out - well I didn't want all of those workers to be getting stung by angry hornets.

I cam back later and they had moved on down the road.  So, dogs in tow, I poured a coffee can full of diesel - bought 2 fuel containers at Home Depot as well, one for diesel to start fires and kill hornet/wasp nests and the other to mix my own 2 - stroke fuel for the chainsaws. They want $19.95 per gallon for it at both Home Depot and Lowe's, unbelievably high prices for something I can mix myself for less than half of that price.

I posted video of it - well I posted it on my YouTube account.  I cant post anything on Facebook at all - for another 8 days I think.  I can't even like people's posts lmao.  I think it's funny that Facebook thinks these measures will help their business succeed.  I do like doing live videos on Facebook tho, I will get back to that after this suspension is over.  But don't be shocked if they suspend me again or even delete my account. I know several people whose accounts have been permanently deleted for "violations". 

Anyway, I crept up to the nest - easy to remember where that chaos was located - and stood there for a few minutes attempting to identify exactly where the hornets were going in and out.  One of them came up near me and hovered there - weird stuff.  They weren't particularly interested in my presence, they didn't know the violence I was about to enact on them. They caused me serious pain and suffering, I was ready to pay them back.  I shouldn't have brought the dogs with me, but they wanted to go...

So, I walked up, poured the entire can of diesel fuel into the hole and ...ran for my life! lol  Bashed my head into a tree attempting to get out of there, but boogied nicely once I got past all of that.  Got out to the street and just stood there, waiting to see if they were going to chase me?  Nope.  In fact, I very slowly walked back to the nest. Nothing coming at me, tho I didn't get too close, I think I wiped them out.  

Yet, there is the issue of all of the hornets that were out foraging for food.  They had to come back. And then what? I assume they move somewhere else and start building a new nest.  

I did not come back later, it was something I figured I'd get back to next time I have time off.  Well, I"m getting up at 4:00 am tomorrow morning and heading out of here. I'm in Brownsville yet again - a nice change for getting some good runs and getting some decent paychecks starting this week, after 3 weeks of very low paychecks and not covering basic bills.  I have a new payment coming up with the property payment and I can't be doing this low paycheck stuff.

I bought 7 cans of hornet spray in large cans that spray up to 27 feet.  That's exactly what I"m going to do when I go back there - hopefully tomorrow - and use a whole can or more of it on there and make sure at least that nest is completely wiped out.  

It also dawned on me that dude living in that storage place. I am going to try to get him out there on any days I can't get James out there - he's basically only available on weekends and now that he's doing the volunteer fire department stuff, well, that may lesson his availability even moreso.  Whatever the case, I need to find someone I can get to go out there and actually work - versus looking at cell phones - and get stuff done. With 2 chain saws I can see getting that forest cut down of the garbage relatively quickly - with help of course.  

I am probably going to be put on a 34 hour reset after this run, so I hope to have Saturday off as well.  I will work all day long, I think anyway lol. The temps are coming down and being outdoors is much more pleasant right now.  

Not a lot else. I was just listening in on Zoom to over 2 hours of the city council meeting. Proposing wasting money on useless stuff while the entire city complains about the horrible road conditions that they won't even entertain anyone addressing them on.  They also had some dude going on with a presentation how the city should adopt an ordinance to fine people that own vacant lots.  It was even proposed that it be classified as a class C misdemeanor and a $500 fine.  I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I couldn't believe they were actually entertaining this man's nonsense.  

The property I put up for sale is moving through.  The man really wants it - I'm more than happy to unload it on him.  He can buy the other two properties cheap as well if he wants, I will never buy another property in that city again if that nonsense goes through. They didn't vote on it tonight, it was a second address from whoever that dude is to attempt to sway the council's favor in his favor. Remember, this city is out in the middle of Nowhere, Nothing and the idea that they are acting like some big city and adopting big city codes is stupid and ridiculous. People move out here for the country feel, not the big city feel. 

Meanwhile, they put out a two page list for the next tax lien sale.  I will not be asking for the day off, but if I happen to have it off, I will go.  It has 5 properties listed that are 2 acres or less on there. In the county of course. Why do I want more property?  A small property in the county, I can buy a mobile home, fix it up and rent it out.  Easy income, not a lot spent compared to what I"m looking at now, something that could even fund this venture, or at least help it along.  If there is as property selling for 2 grand and it doesn't get bid up, I will buy it.  Just one, yes, but it will be much easier to simply set a house on it and call it good. Or even have several mobiles on it, I don't really care and I know at the right price I can rent them out.  I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I will try to look up the properties on the county site and see satellite pics if nothing else.  

I think with that, I am off to bed.  Hoping to get back to Longview by 2:30 - 3:00 at the latest and then drive straight to the property  and get some stuff done.  That may be wishful thinking, but it's a goal lol.

G'nite.