Friday - morning

I cold day in northeast texas, it's 8:30 am and it's still only 32 degrees outside.

Now, I'm not complaining.  It's sunny, the temp will come up over the next few hours and goodbye to that drastic, hot summer. It's funny how we complain how hot it is and then we complain how freezing cold it is!  Yup, I've done it too, just not today. I guess the only complaint today was the temperature of my room when I got out of bed this morning. If it was 50 degrees in here I wouldn't believe it.  More like in the 40's.

This bedroom is an add-on - used to be a carport.  Whoever added it on did a poor job of getting the central AC and heat in here. There is hardly any flow coming out of the vent and if I want it warm in here, I have to turn on my large space heater and even then, it takes a couple of hours to bring it to warm feeling in here. 

Well, as I learned growing up, you can always add layers of clothing.  I just don't like to waste electricity all night long on heat that I don't need when considering the fact that I am covered up with blankets in bed. 

Anyway, we are shooting for Monday to do the rest of the work out there and - well I don't know if he's including the gravel in that equation.  I certainly hope so - they get out there early, they can have that work done in a couple of hours at most and then have the trucks bring in the gravel.  But, that's the way I think, this dude? Who knows.  

I'm going out there early Monday, that's what I can say.  See if they are out there and make sure they are doing everything I wanted to get done.  

In other news, there are numerous other RV parks in this area.  One of them always comes to the top of the list when Googling Rv parks and I checked on them yesterday. I busted out laughing. They had stolen my web designer's ideas and implemented them on THEIR page!  All of a sudden, they have a motorcoach and a travel trailer on the front page and a group of 4 people - 2 couples - that are sitting out there having a BBQ.  They also put in the exact same google search map showing where their park is as my web designer put on mine.  

I'd like to send them a bill for half the costs of the ideas, lmao.  My site jumped up to page 3 of search results overnight.  Remember, it started out on page 7, I think it was.  It's also jumped up on the first page where it shows all the RV parks listed.  This competitor stealing ideas also posted their pricing on the front page, an apparent attempt to show they are going to be cheaper than mine.  Yes, well I am not going to be operating a junky park with dirt roads and overgrown grass with cement slabs that look like they needed cleaned years ago.

Or have them so crammed together you can hear your neighbors eating dinner inside their rig with their doors closed.  

I do wonder about opening in what will be getting close to the dead of winter, but I'm not going to just wait  until Spring.  It costs me nothing more to open and I have already paid the insurance up for a year, which starts on December 1st.  I figure there might be the adventurous crowd that will want to go camping as well. 

I've gone snow camping and extreme cold camping. The part about camping like that that isn't so precious is when it's time to get up in the morning, it's 20 degrees outside and you know you aren't going to be able to warm up until you get a solid campfire going.  

Maria came over yesterday with her new roommate.  He apparently has money as he's retired and staying with her until he finds a property to buy that he can build a house on.  He has a dog, Maria has 2 dogs and Addler was out there as well. Addler and her dogs used to live together, to it wasn't surprising after all that time that they hit it right up and no real fussing.  The new dog wasn't particularly hostile either.  

We walked the entire circumference of the trail.  She had never been and just wanted to take a look.  She was impressed and complimented the entire layout.  Thank you! I think it's pretty nice and I am hoping the trails well help sell the place as a quasi-destination spot.  I'd love to be able to buy some of the land behind my property at the rear.  It's undeveloped land, forest I should say.  An extra 10 acres would be very nice back there.  No, the land isn't for sale and even if it were, I don't have the money for it.  

Some day, tho, I would love to be able to expand in one direction or another.  Another 10 acres back there would open up huge possibilities for a lake and cabins.  

Anyway, sticking to the here and now- today? I always go over there whether I intend on doing anything or not.  I will be checking the grass seed I planted, I have no intention of planting the seed I just bought until I can see there are several days or even a week worth of rain coming. I'm just hoping what I have done - takes - because it's basically the entire RV park section that I dumped seed on.  

Today, I am hoping to get a demo of the campground software - but really - I just want to upgrade to the real thing and get this ball rolling.

With that?

G'day.