I've actually hugged a few trees before.  Why? Because people used to call people "tree huggers" and defame and condescend to them.  I like trees.  God likes trees: "The trees of the field will clap their hands".... and references to trees all throughout scripture.  I don't mind them being cut down tho.  I mean, paper, furniture, etc, and it's totally renewable. In the region I live in, tree forests are harvested all over the place and saps are planted in their place.  I've seen a large number of them in various growth stages all over the place.  See, I think we should get rid of as much plastic as we can and go back to the paper days.  Paper is biodegradable and doesn't take forever to decompose.

It also isn't found among the floating piles of plastic in the oceans - the last one I saw on a documentary said the flotilla (yes, I know it's boats but whatever) of plastic all stuck together was the size of Texas.  The size of Texas.  

Just my thoughts on trees. They are probably my most favorite part of God's creation above the rest of anything else. Flowers come a close second.  Dogs are in contention with flowers, but they aren't really in the same category lol.

Home today, Monday. Worked all weekend taking a loaded trailer to Brownsville and empty back up to the yard.  Wasn't really into it too much yesterday.  Traffic was full of lunatics driving like they were rushing to the hospital because they are dying. Just ridiculous, getting cut off all day long.  To that end, I printed out the SBA loan application and will begin working on it.  I need the contractor to give me a price on doing the entire 60 plus lots I want, a pool contractor to give me a price on that and a builder to give me quotes on a couple of buildings and a giant canopy. 

Yes, we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.  The loan originators will probably want the property on it too, so add another $65,000 on top of that.  I figure I'll need ballpark 400k to do the entire park in one fell swoop.  Yea I said I was going to wait, but wait for what?  Just keep driving trucks up and down the road endlessly? No thank you.  The worst they can do is decline the loan and I'll have to figure something else out.  If I could just come up with enough cash to put in 30 spaces, I could quit my job.  

And with the manager quitting in the next few months (so he says, the company doesn't treat him very well) I have to wonder what the next manager will bring. This guy is laid back, he lets drivers get away with as much as he can let them without his @$$ being held to a burner.  If the next manager is the assistant manager he just hired, things are going to be a bit rough. She doesn't talk to anyone that I can see. She hides behind a partition in what used to be the driver's break room and literally says nothing to anyone.  Or if she does, I have yet to see it.

I'd be perfectly happy with a short, Oklahoma run tomorrow.  But, I'll have full hours available, they could send me to any of our accounts and not, I really don't feel like trekking a thousand miles each way to some of our contracts.  Other drivers love those runs, they can have them. 

I'm gong to the septic place today to drop off a check for the pedestals. If the owner is there, I'm going to ask him to work up the numbers to do the entire job.  The loan asks for quotes, specific numbers, not ballpark stuff. I understand they want that stuff, it's just very tedious in these parts to get anyone to actually do the numbers on paper and give an actual quote.   

Anyway, I was reading today a story stating the Elon Musk - Space X/Tesla - has bought a 10% stake in Twitter, making him the largest shareholder in the company.  Musk said last week that free speech is fundamental to a functioning democracy and criticized Twitter for silencing opinions from people that the company doesn't agree with.  I despise Twitter, I have never liked it, but I will be enthusiastically watching what, if anything, Musk does with his presence in the company.  A shareholder who owns a majority stake basically owns the company.......yes, this should get very interesting. 

Perhaps Musk is a rare billionaire that will actually do some good with all the money he has?  I know he isn't a godly man, but that doesn't  mean he can't do good things with his life.  And perhaps the Lord will find a way to speak to Musk in ways that only God can do without actually showing Himself to anyone.  

Regardless, I'm out the door. Take the check over, get a haircut, renew the trailer license and probably the boat as well now that I think of it, go to the bank, take the dogs to the property and give them a good long walk. It's been a while, the rain has stopped everything, including walks and construction.  Other construction sites in the area are also dead, no dirt work being done and after tonight, that will probably keep any work from being done for at least another work.

It's a bit frustrating, yes.  Oh, and we're likely going to Lowe's today.  I fixed the giant planter out front of the house a few days ago and it's ready for planting. Lowe's has a very nice selection of beautiful flowers.  Yes I'm still doing Keto, weight sort of fluctuates, but as long as the fluctuations keep going in a downward pattern, it's fine by me. Slow progress right now, that's what I can attest to.  

If you're out and about today, take the time to look at nature.  Get the world out of your mind for a bit.  That's one of the reasons I like taking the doggies for walks on the property.  Clear my mind, enjoy God's green earth and stress over nothing. It's good for the body, soul and mind.  

G'day.