Enough of that.  The ground is hard - yes it poured rain 2 nights ago but the soil is so dry right now, the water just passes over it.  I tried to start digging out the 2 holes with the post hole digger and was getting no where fast.  I got about 5 inches down, got a bucket of water and poured it into the holes. Hopefully by tomorrow morning that will loosen everything up and I can also dump more water in them.  

I'm not going to torture myself in some sort of frenzy to get that sign up.  

Really, I just decided to come home and start doing rules research, incorporate other parks' rules into my own version of it and try to get that junk over with.  This is probably going to take the rest of the day. It takes a while just to find a park's rules on their website, many times they are buried in layers of pages and you have to keep looking to find them. I'm not sure why that is, are they trying to hide them?  

I need to get the dreaded paperwork stuff done. Stuff I have mostly been avoiding because I despise paperwork. Yean, I'm going to have to get over that.  I get it, but gag me with a giant wooden spoon, I really don't like it.  Maybe it will grow on me after I do it for a while and get used to it.  

I did learn that for Texas, I don't need a retail permit from the state unless I intend on selling products aside from renting out the sites.  Yeah, I'll bypass that one for now, I have no store and the only thing I was thinking of selling was firewood.  

I already have the required EIN number for the federal government, the website I used to get my LLC also signed me up for that . Of course the feds want their share - of everything.

On a different note, I was reading about the contention between current Texas governor Abbott and wannabe governor O'Rourke.  Beto claims he's going to use a good portion of Texas' rainy day fund - there's billions of dollars in there, I think near 30 billion now - to "pay down" property taxes by giving school districts more of the operating budget they need.  Yes, a vast majority of what you pay in property taxes goes to school districts. 

Apparently, Abbott says he is going to do something similar.  I'm all for NO property taxes whatsoever, so I am in full agreement with bringing the price tag down, at least.  Beto made an actual valid point: Why has Abbott not brought property taxes down before now?  I am NO fan of Beto, but this is one thing he said that I actually agreed with.  

Well, that was quick. I had saved to my documents a link to an RV park's rules. These rules are complete.  I think I am going copy them into a document and then adjust them to my liking - not everything in their rules applies and I don't necessarily agree with some of the rules.  Some things are a mystery - why do that want or not want that?  But, you get people that have been in the business a while and they come up with rules that work to keep the headaches down.  

Anyway, before I get too far into this post, I'm ending it and getting busy. 

 Well, of course, no power company. 

Daily statement here.  The sign maker came out this morning with the newly-made sign. It's 4X8 in dimensions and it looks exactly like my logo online. They did an excellent job and I am sure it will last as long as they claim it will.  

After she left, I immediately texted the power company engineer.  Can you give me a revised update since it's obvious crews aren't showing up today and it's been over 2 weeks since we last spoke? 

No reply for quite a while, I texted a question mark. That apparently got his attention and got an answer. "I check with construction. Will be worked next week for sure."  That's quoted as he wrote it.  

I'm definitely not getting gravel installed until the power lines are in and ready to go.  I just can't wait long between paying for the gravel and getting the operation up and running. I could probably go several more months without getting another job, counting pennies and getting extremely frugal. I've already started heading down that path because I want to have the operation going and the kinks figured out before I go back to trucking. 

After the sign delivery, I headed over to Lowe's to get the materials needed to install the sign. I want it up quickly.  I dunno why, but it always takes me a long time to stand there in Lowe's and figure out what I need.  Or find what I need that I've already figured out. 2 4X10 beams to hold the sign up with 4 bags or quickcrete, lag screws, machine screws and needed more chain saw bar oil and fuel.  

I was going to rush back over there and get this process started - but I realized my stomach growling and right now? I'm eating at home almost entirely.  1, to save money and 2, because it's hard to find Keto friendly items at restaurants or fast food.  It's there, but usually it's higher on the carb count than I'd like it to be.  

Instead, yesterday I went to Kroger's and bought a bunch of Keto friendly coupled with low-cholesterol foods. 

I'm really putting stuff on hold until the power is in.  I will be very busy after it's installed and ready to go.  I suppose I should make an appointment with the accountant today for next week. Really need to get the bookkeeping part of this thing settled.  It's a bit unnerving for me for I have never done anything like this before.

I also stopped at the post office and asked for service at the new address.  Not sure what that process is, I just know that I have an official address and I'm ready to get that service established. Not a high priority, but since it was on the way home.....

And, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to have to haul a bunch of stuff from the bridge setup to the front to install that sign.  Post hole digger, generator, cord, level, etc.  Yeah, good thing my 4 wheeler is working but that adds a lot of time to the equation. I may just get the post holes dug out today and then get the generator out there tomorrow.  I can pick up where the 25 year old left off yesterday in cutting down the shrub next to the driveway that is sticking out.  

This weekend, I think I will go through all the websites I did before and come up with my own list of rules and get that done.  These things are all time consuming and I need to start working on it.  I've chosen the online payment company to take reservations online, but I will forward that to the web designer.  He can put the rules, the calendar with "available dates", the online payment, etc on there.  These are things out of my expertise and I don't want to fool with it, he knows what he's doing and the money spent is the money saved. 

Well, off to the races.  Start prepping that sign for install.

G'day.