If you include Friday being off - I was home by 10:30 am - this is day 3 off.  It is probably prudent upon me to get out there and finish this tree marking project.  It's going to rain today and that is supposed to start at 1:00 pm-ish. So, I'm going to go out and mark the rear that hasn't been marked and just leave the rest.  Anything that needs trees I will simply plant them and 20 years from now it will be good to go, lol.

Seriously, tho, the project is 233 feet wide. There are towering pines on the east side and a variety of mature and very tall and large trees on the west.  I'm tired of marking trees and a portion of the property being tree-less isn't going to bother me.  Plus, on that side, the driveway is still marked with numerous trees. I think besides the southern end = which will probably take 30 minutes to mark off, just leaving a natural barrier between the end of the park and a 10", above ground natural pipeline.  I don't really care what all that stuff looks like, it just needs to stay.  

Today I opened a coin base account, added a method of payment, did the extension and bought $25 worth of some unknown crypto currency.  Going to start investing time to attempting to understand the nuances of buying and selling this stuff. The markets are still going down, so I'm not dumping too much into it to start with.  

Meanwhile, we have Russia talking tough, especially against the US if they deploy troops to the Ukraine.  I'm not a big fan of needless wars that do nothing for the US. I can possibly see sending over armament, but do we really need to engage in another war, especially with a superpower that definitely has nuclear capabilities?  NATO can deal with this as it sees fit.  I think there are wars that were necessary, of course, I don't see this potential conflict as one of them. Same with China and Taiwan.  Now, if either country wants to confront, say, Japan, then we are talking about world aggression and attempts to dominate the world, surely we would get involved then.  But I think the cost of human life would be so great, one has to wonder what cost of life is worth all of this bloodshed, misery and suffering?  Whoever engages in wars doesn't come out without wounds - both to life and treasure.  

Sit back and watch the show, I guess.

Whatever the case, I am going to try to get the rear of the property done today, I think, and also go look at portable buildings, costs and some idea - if these places have any such estimates - on how much to finish the interiors.  I could actually do most of that work myself - if I had the time.  Get an insulation company to come in and blow the walls and subfloor with it, get the electrical, water and sewer line in, put up the drywall, install the outlets for the washerss/dryers and only leave the bathrooms for a professional.  Cause that is a bit out of my league.  It's not going to be cheap, that's all I can say and am prepared mentally for.  It will eat up some finances. Don't really like the idea but it's a necessity to have a successful start up.

I am finding it amusing to see all the anti-biden/harris angst in the liberal media.  Apparently "anyone else would be better than Trump" isn't panning out in real life.  

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Decided to get out there before the rain started. Glad I did. An approximately 400 foot long section of the west side hadn't been done yet. I remembered after getting there that I had run out of tape and also desire that particular day to finish it. This is the side with the "disputed" land and so, I just plan on leaving many of the larger trees up. It did alter my plan for the park setup once I heard this from both the surveyor and then the landowner next door. But it's not the end of the world.

I also decided that I would just go all the way back to a back row of trees and gain an extra 75 linear feet to the south.  That's a gain of approximately 15,000 square feet, provides more area for amenities, the dog park will go back there as well as a potential pavilion of some sort - a bit pricey right now in terms of lumber for construction, but it's in the plan at some point.  A swimming pool, there is lots of room at the back for everything I eventually want to get in there.  The point is that after looking at it, the gas line doesn't come up out of the ground until into the portion where my fence line turns to the west.  So there isn't really anything for anyone to potentially run into that whole back section. Just made sense to keep the pines  back there and a few other trees for appearances sake but get rid of the rest of it in front  of it.

I'm trying to make the best use of this money I'm going to have to spend to clear this portion of land. I don't want to have to go back and take down a bunch of trees. I can see having to take down a few that might have been mis-marked - that's fine.  But let's 98% of it done right off the bat and make the best use of the money. I can plant trees and will undoubtedly be planting both them shrubs - that is also not a priority, just a "down the road" thing. Buy a few here and there, plant them and slowly put them in strategic places.  I did find a huge pine tree in the middle of everything I hadn't seen before. I have no idea whether it will be able to stay up or have to go down once the park is designed, but I'd rather error on the side of "yes, gee, it was in a perfect position!" than, gee, I took it down, a big, beautiful tree and then find out - it could have stayed up.  

Well, the day is wasting away. I finished throwing stuff away in my closet.  That was the aftermath of a rat infestation.  I also got a new baseboard to put across the hole they made to be able to get in there.  Last thing I need to do is bleach the floor, make sure it's cleaned up nicely and then put what's left back in there.  It felt good, honestly, to get rid of stuff I am not using and probably won't ever use. I threw all of the clothes away, the thought of wearing clothes that might have had rat poop on them.  Just no, I can buy new clothing.  We can hear no rats moving around in the attic area.  My desire is if it happens again, we are calling an exterminator the day we hear any of that activity. 

Off to a portable building sales lot.  Well, if the rain doesn't get too heavy.  

G'day.