Half decided to go back on the keto diet today. Half because I've been eating rice and potatoes for months now and they are so delicious.  Getting off of the "good" food again isn't going to be an easy task. The motivator is the fact that my belly has grown larger than it's ever been in my adult life.  

I think I'll start out Keto and start researching other kinds of diets. The Mediterranean diet seems to have great appeal to it's followers. 

Of course, no power company yesterday.  I have plenty to do, however and I will be getting about it today - if it doesn't rain.  Not a high chance of it, but it would be a waste of money to rent a machine and then have it start pouring.  You can't level overly wet land, it just doesn't work.  

I also identified yesterday on the fence line on the east side of the property a large swath of area about 100 feet long where I need to take out all the shrubbery and some small trees. This will enable people to park on the main driveway without blocking it. It will also eliminate any potential for scratching the sides of beautiful rigs.  THAT would get me some pretty bad reviews.

Amazing I hadn't seen that before yesterday.  But, my mind is full of stuff and there is still a lot left to go here, I'm working on it one thing at a time.  I'm going out there shortly to check to make sure the light rain yesterday didn't mess my plans for today up. If it did, I will simply get out the chain saw and start working on that driveway instead.  

I feel like I'm getting close, even tho the power isn't installed. IF they come this week - 3 days left in the business work week - then it's all downhill from there. That will be the key to unlocking get the rest of this done and getting it done quickly. It will also give me a fresh dose of motivation.

It's been a hot summer out there and I've really gotten tired of it. It's going to be 90 degrees today, allegedly, even tho it's currently overcast.  

I just really need to get the lots leveled so I can get that grass seed out there. It's going to rain this weekend - supposedly anyway - and that will get that seed growing and hopefully quickly have a nice ground cover of grass where there will be no gravel instead of dirt.

Oh, the 15 foot wide RV parking pads.  I've got all the dimensions of the sites written on paper and I've now got the sites numbered, at least on paper, not at the sites themselves yet.  No sense in doing that until the gravel is installed, I imagine a dozer running over signs I just paid for and that wouldn't set well.  

I asked in an RV owners group about those wider pads.  There wasn't a single negatory on it. They all said the wider the pads, the better. Note that I am not talking about the width of the entire sites, but the pads where they park.  Why, I asked?  Because people put out big rugs and their own tables and chairs and they like it all to be on the pad instead of half on the grass.  They just like it better.  

I've seen them doing this before - the main reasoning is that their awning gets put up and then they can sit in the shade. If they're sitting in the grassy area, unless there are trees, they aren't going to get shade at all.  Makes perfect sense, but I didn't know.  Some even said to go all gravel on your lots. 

No thanks. I've seen lots of pics of all gravel parks, they just look like giant parking lots, very unappealing.  At least to me.  Grass adds a touch of nature to the scenery that gravel certainly doesn't do.  Grass is an integral part of the plan regardless of the hassle of having to keep it cut.  I'll probably spend several days a month cutting grass.  It will be a chore, no doubt, but that's what my original plan was and in that sense, I am not deviating from it. 

I also read one person who said "they will absolutely LOVE it".  This person says their park has NO amenities but GREAT reviews on Google because their parking pads are so wide.  Yup, my amenities are going to be few in number at first.  So hey! That might work for me, because in the beginning? It's going to be a bit spartan beyond walking trails and a doggy park.  

I can adjust my pricing accordingly at first, just to try and get people in there and get some hopefully good reviews going.  I have so many ideas - but the money just isn't there yet and I'm not in the position to get a decent business loan - yet.  I keep telling myself, plug away at it, keep moving, keep on getting things done, you will eventually get there.

And on that note, I was in the local gathering group - just a place where people dump everything from restaurants to eat at to lost dogs to local business attempting to get some people heading their way.  I was scrolling down and a pic grabbed my attention. My  mind thought, that looks like my logo? Is  someone else putting up a business with the same design?

Silly me, lmao.  It IS my pic, they are painting it and it's looking really good! They are using it as an advertisement to attract more customers. That's how I found them in the first place, that group and a pic of a billboard style sign they had made over 20 years ago that was still in very good shape.  Go local! That's what I try to do.

Oh, and picnic tables? Do I really need them to start with? After that discussion about people putting their own tables out, I wondered if picnic tables at every lot makes good business sense on a dwindling money supply, or, perhaps, carve out an area maybe 30X30, put in a large fire pit and also put in some tables near it?  Just a gathering place people can go to socialize if they so desire and cooler weather is coming.  I could even start out with supplying a cord of wood for people to make the fires in it - to start now, not permanent.  

I've got to get creative on a limited budget.  Give as much as I can give for appeal without spending a fortune on it.  I even thought about building an outdoor shower.  I was looking at designs, pretty simple setups that don't need anything but a water supply and a water heater that doesn't need electricity.  Of course, it would need a propane tank to fuel it, but still.  Dunno, just thinking.  There is natural gas running down the street, but to run a line that far back would cost some big bucks, no thanks, not at the moment anyway.  

Well, anyway, off to the races!

G'day.