Has anyone ever heard of Scotch Eggs? I was scouring the internet last night looking for recipes and happened upon a recipe for these things, before last night I had never heard of them. And here I thought I had pretty much had every version of eggs that exists? Probably not even close lol. It looks like they should taste good. I dunno if I'm going to make them or not, I'm still trying to decide if it will be worth the effort after discarding carb laden ingredients and replacing with carb-less or low carb ingredients. You know, instead of regular milk, almond milk, instead of regular white flour (is that racist?), almond flour and instead of Panko bread crumbs, you crumble up pork rinds instead.
It's day 5 since the boy was diagnosed with Covid. The other boy also has something, a cold I guess, he was tested and came back negative. The point is they are both sick. I have been fortunate so far to have no symptoms of anything.
Ida will not affect us at all, or if it does, it will be nothing more than a little rain. We're off to the west of where it's going, thankfully. So, I will likely take the dogs to the property today - I don't have any qualms going over there even if I am not the owner since I have money down on the property, under contract and the presumed owner of it - eventually. Not to mention the owner lives nowhere near the property - Maine is a long ways off - and I have repeatedly told my realter that I have been hiking on it in case there are any issues with it. The seller's realtor didn't mind either. I mean, if I were to get hurt on the property, I am not the kind of person that files lawsuits against other people for the consequences of my own actions.
I would rather be going over there to get on a piece of machinery, clearing trees and creating driveways and pads. I will still do that on this 14 days off if enough time presents itself after closing - if/when that ever occurs. I don't imagine it taking more than 4 days to clear the first driveway, the trees simply aren't big enough to pose that much of time wasting machine utilization. Even just getting the west side driveway done before I have to go back to work would be a huge help in afterwards designing the property the way I want to. There are no models that I can think of or have looked at that wouldn't include a driveway on the west side of the property. And with pull throughs, there are no models that don't include a driveway somewhere in the center.
However, the driveway in the center will not be determined until I see what it looks like with the driveway. I "believe" the property is fairly level at that point, I don't know that for a fact. The reason it makes a difference is because if I'm putting in pull through sites, the land either has to be level or can be leveled without making too much of a slope at the end where the RV's would pull out. Otherwise, they will have to be back-in spaces. If it's pull throughs then the lots will angle towards the street/front of the property. Simply drive into the pad and set up. If they are to be back in sites, then they will have to angle towards the rear of the property. There is no room for error on that part - not if I want to keep trees up in between sites, which I definitely do.
My next action will be to simply print out a satellite pic of the front portion and make several copies of it and start drawing some models up. In fact I intend on doing that after I get done with this entry. Oh, and yesterday, we went out to the back yard and started doing a major cleaning job. Cutting down small trees, bushes and vines, especially on the back fence. Also cutting down limbs off of trees that were almost touching the ground. Work that was far past overdue, we aren't done yet and may go out and continue with that - as long as my health stays good and I don't start feeling sick. 5 days is the average amount of time it takes for Covid to incubate in your body and start showing symptoms.
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Took the saw back - finally. Get that behind me. Almost $300 worth, I didn't want to pay for something we weren't going to use. Went over to Waffle House for a nice keto friendly breakfast and then over to PetSmart where I scored several, very cool looking Koi. Brought those home, put them in the aquarium and then proceeded to take all the rest of the fish that were still in the aquarium to the pond out back. There's probably something like 30 fish in the pond now. I'm not really interested in any more goldfish, Koi are expensive but those are my favorite fish for ponds. They're more like pets. But it's a risky expenditure - they aren't cheap and they can be eaten right along with the goldfish for bird, raccoon or snake dinner.
I have yet to see any birds attempting to fish, I haven't seen any of the water snakes this year and raccoons aren't safe in our back yard with that scrawny shepherd mix, she will instantly kill any of them that come in the back yard. I don't wonder if she isn't the reason I am not seeing any water snakes anymore, either. Of course, we don't have dogs out back at night, so the fish are still open prey for raccoons. Regardless, I have several hiding spots for the fish at least. They are medium sized sections of Flagstone placed on top of bricks. That will at least keep the birds and raccoons from getting them and yes, they definitely use those hiding places.
Glad I went over to Longview, there were several refugees from the hurricane that had traveled there to escape. We're out of harm's way and there isn't anything going on, the hotels should have ample rooms available. Normal rooms available, I should say. I've looked for rooms over there several times in the past, I've never seen any of them sold out. It may be they are coming this far because everything before that IS sold out? Well I was glad I went to Longview to get that thing taken back AND to get the Koi. I was blessed, this time they had just received a shipment. This is why I was going to start my own Koi stock tank and sell them. I had asked Maria if she wanted to do it, but she declined. I wanted to give her a small business to start up, Koi sell out over there all the time and they aren't available in this town.
Buy around 500 of them and put them in a 500 gallon stock tank and sell them. Not a hard job, really. I don't do it because I am out of town all the time. I guess I could do it and just sell them when I'm home. I would assume at least $5 profit off of each fish, if you could sell them in a short period of time, like maybe 2 months or so, that would be a nice haul.
Anyway, it's nothing I want to do at this point in time. I "will" have enough going on when this property deal closes. I will be back to ultimatum time if it doesn't occur this coming week. There is no reason to hold this up any longer - unless the county is taking forever to do it. But they aren't short staffed and they are operating as normal.
Well this post has grown exceedingly long.
