This has been a very long and trying day. 

I was determined to at least get those post holes dug for the sign. But, the 20-something showed up much earlier than expected. I ended up going over there to show him what I want done, hooked up the trailer and headed to - Kroger's actually. My friends' friend birthday today, they are having him/them over for dinner and we were to make the macaroni salad.  

Yeah, I had no idea how much work macaroni salad is until I tried making 2 different versions of them today.  

Anyway, over to the rental place, get this auger machine for digging post holes, back to the house with Kroger goods, over to the property and then I expected to just dig the holes quickly and be done with it.

How wrong - utterly wrong - I was. 

I would have never been able to finish those holes with the post hole shovel.  The first hole? No thanks.  20 minutes and maybe a foot and a half deep before it got hung up on something. I just let the auger do it's thing while pushing down on it. 

It wasn't having it.  Hole number 2.  Hole number 3 finally took. Over to the other side for that sign.  One hold was enough.  Then, I started drilling a hole for the opposite way traffic. I wasn't going to put in a sign for that considering hardly any traffic - probably none but who knows - will be coming that way.  GPS will not take you that way.  But, I noticed the private RV park down the road had a sign facing that way, never-the-less.

I don't have that sign yet and it's not a priority, but with the difficulty I had already face drilling holes for the main sign? Yeah, honey, we gonna get that done.  It was something like 10 hole tries for the various signs that were left abandoned and try further away. 

I was sweating my ass off pushing down on that thing constantly.  I was totally worn out, but  while I was doing all of this? A pickup truck stopped in the middle of the road.

I waved, trying to be a nice neighbor. He waved back, backed the truck up. So I turned the rather noisy machine off and we chatted a few seconds.  What's up? Well, is this the RV Park? Yes, it will be the RV park.  Can we go take a look, or isn't it done yet? Nope, it's not done but you are welcome to look. 

They disappeared back there and I went back to this confounded machine attempting to drill a hole deep enough for a post.  After 15 minutes, they came back out, turned off their truck and asked when it will be available and how much?  Uhh, probably a month or two - I'm not giving firm dates yet until I am sure I have everything in place, it will hopefully be more like a few weeks, 3 at max, but who knows? 

Ok, well we want to reserve a spot.  Is this long term? Yes, 2 or 3 months worth - at least.  Long story, their kids are out of the house, they have the house sold, they are moving into a brand new travel trailer, hooray for them! Note that they were driving an at least 80k, brand new pickup truck as well. These are the types of people I want - have money, not begging people for cigarettes and beer (common with poor people living near others, I have ample experience with it, thank you). Or just plain out stealing. 

They wanted to give money down. No thank you, I'm just not in the position for that yet.  I don't have a company bank account - high on the priority list now - and I don't have my accounting set up yet.  I didn't tell them that, of course, all of these things are being worked on.  I just told them I will hold it for them in good faith, if you decide to back out, please just let me know no hard feelings. 

These are not the first people that have driven by the property, they are just the first ones that I encountered and were actually serious about renting.  

No, I don't want to do a lot of long term stuff, but I feel a mix of both kinds will work out for me.  It was a nice chat with them. They own a martial arts studio in town and say they have had it since 2004. Yup, I will be checking out that story but I have no reason to not believe them considering the vehicle they were driving, something is supplying them with money.  

They were in love with the idea of having rules, for I stated after they left and sent me a text message to give me their names for holding the spot that I have rules and they will be posted soon.  Yes, we want rules!  They aren't new to rv'ing and they know what happens with places that don't have rules or have them and don't enforce them. 

It was an interesting back-and-forth session.  I hope to have some more of them soon. I could see renting out longer-term the back 7 lots and keeping the front 7 pull-through lots open for over nights - which make far more money.  Yeah, you have to have the business to accommodate for that, again, I have hopes, that's what all of this is based on.  

I at least need the place to pay for itself. The mortgage payment, the water bill, the insurance bill and the power bill. That is not the goal, obviously, its' the bare minimum.  Considering these folks checked out every other RV park in the area? Yes, that really boosted my confidence in this endeavor. 

I have had my doubts, folks, that's the reality of it and I"m not going to even try to mispresent it.  What if......a thousand what ifs - but the biggest one: what if I spent all of that retirement money and it doesn't work out?  What if I just dumped - probably 150k in this thing before I open up - and I have no-one coming here?  

Bad economy, high inflation be damned, there are plenty of people with money that aren't overly affected by any of it. They may be irritated with higher cost of living, but that doesn't really make them slow down on spending or doing what they want to do.  Or if it does, it's not that much.  People selling pricey homes to go live in RV trailers and Class A Motorhomes.  They are relatively rich by our society standards, they are sick of living the status quo and a lot of them take great pleasure in traveling from place to place, checking out new scenery.

This is why I wanted those walking trails. It's not just a place to park, it's a place to explore.  

Well, I got done with the holes and took the machine back.  I went up to get lunch at Chili's, visiting with folks, went home and started on this macaroni salad stuff. 2 types to appease 2 types of pallette.  It meant boiling eggs, cooking bacon, boiling noodles, chopping things up into fine bits and putting together the ingredients X 2.  

And now? I'm very tired.  I would love to just take a nap right now.  

G'day.