Haven't been posting because I got - really - sick yet again.  I've been sick more this year than I can remember in any year of my life, save my early childhood. This time, I don't know where I got it from. The kids aren't sick, the adults aren't sick - but I do go to stores around town buying stuff for the property.

The buying is pretty much over for now.  I'm not interested in spending any more money on this project until I see even a single customer come in and take camp for at least one night.  The reservation system is up and running, I thought I had it figured out but the reservation grid is showing blackouts until the 1st of January.  I have several questions for the site developer - this will be one of them. There seems to be no clear way of eliminating blackout dates and there are other things that I have searched the entire site and found nothing that are starting to annoy me. 

I've just been not feeling well at all.  This sickness hit me in the middle of the night all at once. There was no gradual anything, it was one minute I'm sleeping, the next minute I'm hacking my lungs out with a vicious cough that was hurting as if there were needles being stabbed into me every time I coughed.  

Anyway, there is 10 degree weather coming tonight and I wouldn't expect anyone to be coming through town in this kind of weather and the blizzard that is going on throughout the country.  But, I have drastically reduced the rates in order to get some people to come in and check it out.  We're talking $25 per night which is basement bargain prices. The idea of no one coming at this time of year isn't shocking, but I'd like to see some reservations for later on in the year.  It can accept reservations for up to a year in advance.  

As it stands, I forced myself out of bed  yesterday morning to go over and shut the water off at the street valve and then open up a few of the site hydrants to let out the pressure.  There is no sense in taking a chance with a hard freeze busting up lines when no one is there using the facility.  

I am minimally starting to feel better and the only reason I say that is because the coughing has decreased quite a bit.  Where previous nights I was coughing all night long, last night I actually was able to get some sleep.  

I have nothing within me to sit here and try to figure out this reservation system, but I might email the dude and ask him some specifics.  Even the large amount of videos he has for training aren't showing where some of this stuff is or how to do it.  

The kids are off school for 2 weeks, the oldest brother is in town for a visit. It's been nothing but chaos since that boy arrived and I ended up going out there - from my bedroom to the living room - and addressing them and also asking the adult in the room if they were even trying to keep the ridiculous amount of noise down? It's grandma and she apparently doesn't care how much noise they make.  I, however, live here and we do not normally have that much noise going on in this house going all day long.

There are card nights when other people's children are here and those people's kids are undisciplined and just go crazy. But at least they go home at the end of the night. This morning has been better. I am not watching the kids because I simply can't - it's out of my energy and tolerance levels right now to deal with screaming children.  But if they start up again today, I'm going to put a stop to it before it even gets started.  What they really need is an outing to et some energy out. They want to go to the property, I just don't have it within me to go over there and go hiking.  Worse that the temps are going to fall drastically within the next few hours according to the weather app and that doesn't exactly help a cough.  

I don't know what it is about that oldest boy showing up, but whenever he does, everything goes south.  He doesn't live under the same rules that exist within this household and he has a hard time dealing with a lot more structured and disciplined atmosphere. And then, the 2 that live here, start thinking they can act like him and the next thing you know, it's a damn circus.  

Yesterday was insane. The 7 year old wanted to play his Switch, he kept bothering his mom about it until she finally said, ok but since you are up my @$$ about it, I'm only letting you play for an hour and then that's it for the day.  The boy had a meltdown.  I have never seen such a pathetic, appalling, amazing show of emotion over losing the use of a game.  When you see someone so addicted to something like that and especially at that age? It's time take the freaking thing away from them for awhile, which is exactly what she did.  She went so far as to take the game with her today to work to ensure he wouldn't have access to it.  

I don't know what their attitudes are today.   They were kept quiet this morning and I took advantage of it and slept.  It's almost noon and I still haven't talked to any of them lol.  

Well, I'm off to - nowhere.  It's just another day I'm going to stay at home and recover.