15 to 18 days for gas to go from Texas to New York - just heard that on the news.  Gas prices aren't going back down "anytime soon" was another statement.  Here we are again, hoarding stuff and making life miserable for everyone.  The toilet paper fiasco isn't anything that anyone could have predicted before it ever occurred, yet it happened and will go down in history - as whatever, in my mind as an event that will have the rest of the world looking at Americans as entitled, piggish, stupid and ridiculous nation of people who have life so easy that they cannot possibly understand how the rest of the world lives.  We make ourselves the laughing stock of the world.  

They warned y'all about the consequences of hoarding gasoline, that if you just buy what you normally do, it will cause much less of a distribution problem and won't be a big issue. Instead, you see people taking giant gas cans and even 55 gallon barrels to the gas stations and filling them up along with the tanks in their vehicles.  

Whatever the case, it's 11:00 pm and I just got back from Brownsville. There wasn't any trailers there last night, so I got lucky and was able to get my 14 hours of detention time and then, an empty came into the yard and I boogied up the highway to get back to the yard and get home tonight.  They wanted that trailer for tomorrow anyway. I don't have work tomorrow so I'm going to go over to the property and see if the surveyors are out there.  I can  wish, lol.  

I've heard nothing back from anyone about the projected date for getting this done - tho I heard all last week about how they were going to have an update on either Friday or Monday  Well this is Tuesday and I'm not going to bother them anymore about it, if there is nothing to report, they don't need me prodding them about it.  If the surveyors are out there, it will quite easy to spot them.  I'm going to inspect the power poles and see if I can find what company is supplying power and start making phone calls and inquiries about that.  Water supply as well.  I might as well at least get the info in hand.  

I'll just keep making trips out there when I'm home until I see them out there, that's all I can do without making endless queries about what's going on.  I intend on working with this realtor in the future to get rid of my small properties.  I also intend on buying more properties as money becomes available - but any property I buy at auction from this point on will be out of city limits.  I'm simply not going to fool with the city any more. Perhaps in the future I can get a property and petition the city to allow it to be built into an RV park but that isn't going to be any time soon.  

I'm a bit surprised the law firm doesn't have a tax sale listed by now for my county for a June sale. They have several other counties up but not ours.  I went to the county tax site and they don't even have a link up anymore.  Umm, they aren't going to stop selling these properties so I dunno what's going on.  Maybe nothing, perhaps they are just putting it out another month for whatever reason.  I'd just like to see even an acre out in the county going low that I could at least try to acquire.  Put some kind of housing on it and sell it rent to own or owner finance.  Make it reasonably priced and keep the payments affordable - probably by pushing out the maturity date to something like 15 years.  The county won't even get involved in it. Yes, I'd probably have to pay to have sewer, water and electric installed, that would have to be covered by a down payment.  If you're going to buy a chunk of the American dream, you probably should expect a down payment in that formula.  

Addler is looking at me with these sad looking eyes. Lol. Poor doggy, I'm gone a lot.  He gets oodles of attention when I'm home tho. James gives him attention alot when I'm gone as well.  James doesn't have much of a choice, Addler just pushes his giant head into everyone's business and forces the issue.  

I'm not tired right now lol.  I usually am after a long day driving and getting home late.  I slept so long last night and into this morning.  I'd do laundry and other things - but that makes a lot of noise and it's too late, James has to go to work, Phoenix has to go to school in the morning. Taylor is stay-at-home mom now.  She's been diligently working on the house since she quite her job and the house is looking amazing.  We still have the back yard woes to deal with.  

49% chance of rain in the morning. I'm wondering if it will really clear up by afternoon, for this pond thing is really starting to irritate me. I was going to do it on Sunday, but it was going to rain all day long.  Instead, it didn't rain at all and I was not happy about the fact I could have gotten it done.  It was raining all day long up here today - I went through a long portion of the way back up in sheets of rain. Not raining dogs and cats, that is nothing compared to what I was driving through. I hate that stuff and everyone is sick of rain.  Really, we are all quite sick of it and would like to have a bit of a reprieve from it.

Of course, when the hot summer comes and the grass starts turning brown and we need rain - we'll be singing a different tune.  Lol. 

Speaking of hot summers, I have thought about this concerning the RV park.  People probably aren't going to want to come during the hot season and I'm going to need some permanent residents there.  My orientation is growing more acute concerning the pads and the sizes of them - one site doesn't fit all. I don't need all 65 foot long pads.  I don't need power meters at every pad. I only need that at pads where people are staying for extended stays or on a "permanent" basis. Overnighters pay exorbitant amounts for their stay and was surprisingly acceptable by the RV community. In one post I was reading, people were saying things like: "where does it say that it's going to be cheap to stay at a park?".  People want to boondock or otherwise find free places to park. That's all nice fine and dandy, but most of them are resolved that they are going to have to pay and they budget that into their yearly expenses.

The fact of the matter is, if I need more sites with meters, that can be done without having to do much more than replace the pedestal or add it to the pedestal if that's possible.  There is really no need to spend that much more money having power meters at every single pad.  I'm still trying to construct this park in my mind and doing that by reading, reading, reading.  But the savings in not having metered panels is significant.  You don't charge overnighters extra for power, they are paying through the nose for the  pad to begin with.  

Vacation. I need a vacation.  My friends apparently aren't going to be in the position to do anything but a trip to Missouri to meet up with her dad and grandma for a weekend.  I'm not sure what I want to do, tho I suspect I will just end up going to Arizona.  I wouldn't mind taking the dogs somewhere and just go camping or something.  In the mountains.  

My new AR15 needs a scope and it needs ammo. I might take care of that tomorrow as well.  

Anyway, I'm going to watch a rerun of the Big Valley and then, go to bed.