Friday. July 30.

Allegedly 3 more days until the surveyors come.  I've completely backed off of doing any research on RV parks for the last - several days - since before we went on vacation. I needed a break from it.  Plus my attention got diverted towards one of the properties I already own in trying to get that thing all cut down and put it up for sale.  The listing should be showing up on the real estate sites any time now.  Not that it will sell right off the bat, but it's going low priced, I mean lower than anything on the market, if someone wants to live in this town and needs a lot - and a decent sized lot now that I was back out there looking at it - this one might be the one to go first.  There is a stream in the rear of the property, that may or may not have any appeal? Who knows.  

Now, when I was at the storage lot yesterday, the man that lives there was out there and we had a nice long discussion.  He's homeless and has been living there for a year now.  The owners of the facility allow him to stay in his car in exchange for him cutting down the massive amount of grass every month.  Not to mention free security.  He said someone cut a hole in the fence the other day and he was worried someone was going to come in and start trying to steal stuff.

Well, he has a phone, he can dial 911.  I asked him about the winter icing event earlier this year. This poor guy was living in that car out in that frigid chill the entire time!  I should have thought about it, if I had I would have put him up in a cheap hotel to get out of that misery.  Yes, I do like to help my fellow human beings.  He's well dressed, shaves, appears to shower somewhere, takes as best care of himself as he can with his circumstances.  He takes whatever odd jobs he can get around town.  He stated that he used to drive trucks.

I told him I'm a truck driver and asked him why he doesn't just get back into trucking? He would have a place to stay and never have to deal with cold and heat living arrangements again.  He let his CDL slide and only has a class C license. Cool! That's all you need dude, you can call any of these major trucking companies that have their own training programs up, they'll pay for you to come to orientation and then go through their training program, put you in with a trainer for a few weeks and then send you out on your own. You can make at least 40 grand your first year even with one of these major companies.  He was looking at me odd. Are there any around here? I don't know, it doesn't matter where they're at, they will pay for your ride to wherever their training facility is and put you up in a hotel and give you a food per diem.  

It would certainly better his life versus living in that old Cadillac and hanging out under the covered parking during 90 plus degree heat days and high humidity out, feeling like it's 107 yesterday.  I was going to get him a cold drink or even a bag of ice for his cooler but the dude that hires him here and there came and got him.  I did discuss with him my RV park intentions. This guy knows how to build block walls and basically does unskilled labor. I could put that guy to work.  Namely, I am thinking the back in lots are going to have to have a block wall at the rear, nothing fancy but to keep the dirt from caving in. It appears that to have level lots I'm going to have to cut some dirt out on that side of the intended driveway.  There's lots of physical labor work I could put a person like that to work with.  

He didn't however, know how to operate a bulldozer.  I asked, lol.  I don't either but I am confident I could use one with minimal learning curve.  Set the blade an inch into the ground and start moving.  I've just been thinking about how I could rent a dozer for a week and get the full use out of it while still working my job.  It would be using it when I'm home but it's far to expensive to just let it sit there for 2 days doing nothing. I have to find someone who can operate the thing.  So, in the end, it may be cheaper to just pay someone to clear the land as a side job - or their main job, they just do it on their own, no real company but they have a piece of equipment to do it with.  $75 per hour is the cheapest I've found so far.  

I thought about going to the property today and putting the hunting camera up in the rear of the property near where I've seen bear droppings.  But it's getting sooooo hot outside, I'm not feeling very motivated lol.  And climbing through all of that thorn brush - the only way I think I'd go out there today is if I can get the 4 wheeler going.  It's only 10:30 am and the "real feel" is at 103 degrees. I wouldn't know, I haven't been outside yet today lol.

Alright, well I'm going to get that waterfall filter going, I got the thing put back together last night now just have to go out and hook it back up to the pump.

G'day.