Addler. Fresh blood coming out of his butt where the stitches are.  This isn't good. I may have to take him back to the vet tomorrow.  I've been off work for 7 days, I was supposed to go back yesterday but.....apparently plants are shut down. There hasn't been a driver posting in the texting group for 3 days now about getting loaded.  I dunno, but if he has somehow opened the wound up? I'm likely to leave him there at the vet.  I've done my best to keep him from being too active and definitely to stop licking it, but I must have failed somewhere along the way.  Whatever, I can't have this keep happening is the point, as much as I don't want to leave him there in a kennel atmosphere, I more don't want this to be an ongoing problem.  It needs to heal and get it over with.  

The electrician for the construction company called today.  He has a very deep Texas drawl.  The owner does as well, lol.  It's kind of funny listening to them speaking.  

Anyway, he said there is going to be a problem with the pedestals.  I was under the impression they make their own, apparently they do not.  That's not really what I wanted, really have no choice tho.  The other electrical company is far too busy, they wouldn't even send someone out to look at the property. They did tell me they wouldn't be able to do anything for a while - but after months of waiting I wrote them off.

Well, the problem? They can only get X amount of the pedestals at the price I was quoted, the rest of them they will have to acquire elsewhere.  Further complication? These other pedestals are from a different manufacturer and cost substantially more.  I'm shrugging my shoulders with this situation.  When I get down to around 15 grand left in the bank? It's going to stop.  Well, maybe 10 grand. I don't like not having a cushion of money to be able to fall back on - rainy day fund, just in case stuff.  I normally have 8 to 10 grand in the bank anyway, before I got all of this other money.  

The deal: they are ordering pedestals and they wanted to know if I wanted to get them now, while they are available?  Yes, please.  I already knew pedestals are on backorder everywhere. People talking about months before they receive their orders of them. I want them to have them now, not wait months when the electrical is ready to install.  Yes, I have to pay for them in advance, a simple receipt is all I need and I'm good. I do trust these people, they have an excellent reputation in this entire region.  

But, it's an extra 2 grand.  Doesn't sound like much, but everything is eating away at my finances here.  What else am I going to run into with higher pricing? I don't know, hopefully nothing but I did recite the pricing the contractor gave me back to the owner of it the other day to ensure we are still on "that" page.  The page where he gave me, in writing, quotes for the various aspects of this installation.  

I wish I could get at least 20 lots in right now, instead of having to wait.  

This news today wasn't actually shocking.  The dirt work on top of the land clearing was a bit of a surprise, keeping a level head about this.  One thing is for certain, at least at this point: If I get a building - which I must - it's just going to be one building.  If there is going to be a bathroom and showers and laundry, it's all going to be in the one, same-said building.  

Unfortunately, the competition is increasing in this area - I know this because this company is off building even more RV parks all over the place.  I have to have something that is of appeal to people to choose my place over some other place.  The pool is going to have to happen, somehow.  

Because if I can't get the type of people in that I want to target, I will have to do something different. 

Not going to go into that atm, the park will open when it opens and hopefully the wider, longer lots with grass, fire pits, picnic tables, walking trails, a doggy park and probably a swimming pool depending on the financing will be enough to get people in there.  Oh and wifi.  It's getting to the verge of the precipice of a small loan - 20 grand probably - to finish it up.  It's that or immediately get to work on a SBA loan before I spend too much more money........but I might go approach the bank I have all of this money at and see what they offer in terms of business loans as well.  

And we have word that tomorrow, the price of gas in this region is jacking up .25 cents per gallon. Well, it's very likely going to get worse with Biden ending US self dependency on oil.  And government spending causing inflation to hit everything.  We're already averaging $3.21 per gallon, so yes, if that .25 cents happens, that is going to crank the cost of fuel well up there. It's going to hurt the paycheck to paycheck people more than anyone.  I find it interesting that Biden said in the SOTU address that we should all be buying American - yet he can't find it within himself to get us back to American oil? 

Anyway, the electric installation situation was the point of this post.  I can only hope there isn't anything that's going to go the same route.  Septic is pipe and vaults.  There are several concrete companies in the region that make the vaults, whether the price is going to go up? No idea.  I have a quote from this contractor, I wouldn't want to get into a pissing match with him about it, I am just going to hope his quote will stay the same. At the same time? Let's get this stuff installed, sooner than later!

G'nite.  

 What stops Putin from advancing on if he defeats Ukraine?  You don't think this man is capable of simply moving right on to neighboring nations which are equally as impotent as the Ukraine to stop the carnage?  NATO is an interesting organization, but Putin is starting to get old and I doubt he cares.  When he starts posturing with talk about his nukes - he may be playing the cards and bluffing, or he may be at a point in his mind where he doesn't care. I don't know.  I'd like to think he would never think of using nuclear arms against an inferior nation militarily speaking but I don't put anything past this man.  Not at this point. His actions have always been reckless, but we have an update of how evil this man is in targeting civilians.  

And all of this blah blah blah about condemning the man, give the people of Ukraine what they need: the armament to stand up to this malevolent actor.  Not worth going too much into this, but I am watching the video and pictures of the destruction the Russian army did overnight, especially on Karkiv (spelling?) and it's horrible.  

Regardless, Addler is miserable right now, he hates that cone but if I take it off? He goes straight to licking the area that had the surgery and we just can't have that.  He's on pain pills until they are gone, so hopefully he's not too uncomfortable.  His appetite is gone, he barely eats and then lays down.  

The contractor sent me a quote to do just the first 400' of the property.  I can only say that to do the entire property is going to be very costly and we are definitely not going that route. I gave the ok to get it done, the range is between $6,500 and $9,700 for just the 400 linear feet of it and it is what it is.  I have no choice.  For the money it will cost to do the rest of it? It would be cheaper for me to buy my own bulldozer.  I doubt I'll do that, just the thought of how much money this is all going to cost to get to the eventual finish line with a fully developed park.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars, easily.  

Get the thing up and running, see what happens and make decisions from there.  Right now, the decisions are to move along with whatever I can afford and get it done.  I authorized the work and that's that.  If this thing turns out profitable, I will be able to secure a loan for somewhere in the 300k range and finish the rest of it.  I'm still going to be good with getting the rest of the pad work done and the utility installation - but - I haven't received a quote on the gravel.  I can easily see another 15k, even with the use of the existing driveway.  Plans are being altered to make the project affordable.  

I'm somewhere around 80k to do everything that this contractor will do to get this park going.  That's 24k more than I expected.  That 24k is the building and everything it needed.  Gag.  Very possible I'll have to take out a loan to finish this thing.  Not my first choice but I'll do whatever I have to, we are already knee deep here, might as well jump all the way in. I have, lol, jumped all the way in. I'm not worried per se, just wanting to get this stuff done so I can get the money spent on the things I need.  I feel like I'm racing against an inflation clock. The longer it takes, the more it's going to cost. 

I spent most of yesterday working on putting this rather large desk together. I knew it was big, I didn't realize it was this big.  Because it took them so long to get the thing to me, they took off almost $300 from the original price. I've put it off because - I knew it was going to be quite the project and I wasn't wrong.  There were a huge number of parts.  The desk itself is almost done, then put the hutch together and call it good. 

I'm back to my pre-trip weight.  I weighed in at 219 when I left, I was up to 232 when we got back.  That doesn't mean my gut is gone, lol.  Just came back to the weight I started at.  I'm looking to lose 35 pounds, well I'm looking to lose all of this fat.  

Well, back to the desk. Get it done and get my room back into some semblance of order.  Can't take Addler for a walk today, tho I guess I could take the shepherd.  Addler is going to forego walks for a couple of weeks as far as I'm concerned, I want that healed enough that his romping around all over the place isn't going to open the wound.